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US Air Force Film SFP-1162. The AV quality of this film is quite low (I cleaned it up as best I could) but the information it contains is quite good.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Test_Center
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) is a development and test organization of the United States Air Force. It conducts research, development, test, and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to deployment. It has test flown every aircraft in the Air Force's inventory since World War II. The center employs nearly 13,000 people and controls the second largest base in the Air Force.
On 6 July 2012, the previous Air Force Flight Test Center was redesignated the Air Force Test Center. Up until July 2012, the AFTC consists of two subordinate wings. The 95th Air Base Wing provides installation support for all units on Edwards Air Force Base. The 412th Test Wing conducts aircraft testing and evaluation. In July 2012, the redesignated 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; and Arnold Air Force Base's Arnold Engineering Development Complex also came under control of the AFTC...
Overview
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) conducts developmental and follow-on testing and evaluation of manned and unmanned aircraft and related avionics, flight-control, and weapon systems. AFTC also operates the USAF Test Pilot School, which trains test pilots, flight-test engineers, and flight-test navigators.
The Center has tested all the aircraft types in the Air Force inventory, and the center's work force—civilian, military and contractor—work together to flight test and evaluate new aircraft and upgrades to aircraft already in inventory for Air Force units, the Department of Defense, NASA and other government agencies. Upgrades to be tested here include improvements to radar, weapons-delivery and navigation systems, and a system to give tactical pilots the ability to strike ground targets from low altitudes at night and in adverse weather.
The Air Force Test Center develops, operates and maintains the Edwards Flight Test Range and Utah Test and Training Range. It also operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. The Center provides test infrastructure, overhead support for development, and operational test and evaluation support for aerospace research vehicles. AFFTC resources include the test and evaluation mission simulator, the Benefield Anechoic Chamber, Ridley Mission Control, and the Integration Facility for Avionics Systems Testing...
Air Force Flight Test Museum
The Air Force Flight Test Museum is open to military personnel with credentials to enter the base as well as general public tours offered periodically. The museum also features 40 aircraft on display at the museum or the nearby Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, California. The museum also features aircraft engines, missiles, hardware, life support equipment, technical drawings, test reports memorabilia, and models...
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Wright Field was the hub of US Army Air Force testing & development during World War 2. Virtually all aircraft produced by the Allies were flown in for evaluation, including (as you'll see) Spits, Hurricanes, P-38s, P-39s, P-40s, A-20s, B-17s, the Mammoth B-19, B-24s & B-25s.& more Giant wind tunnels & in flight air flow markers tested aerodynamics. A large facility was devoted solely for developing & testing propellers. here's even a peak at an early radar array, purposely miss-identified as a 'long range sound detection device.|” Virtually every system in aircrafts were tested, including brakes, hydraulics,landing gear machine guns, & gun sights. Different munitions were developed including incendiary bombs. You'll also see the development of specialized landing lights, a high altitude testing chamber for men & equipment, parachute testing & more
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- published: 05 May 2016
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Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Also, it operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Edwards AFB is named in honor of Captain Glen Edwards. During World War II, the captain flew 50 missions in A-20 Havoc light attack bombers in the North African campaign on extremely hazardous, low-level missions against German tanks, convoys, troop concentrations, bridges, airfields, and a variety of other tactical targets. The base has played a significant role in the development of every aircraft to enter the Air Force inventory since World War II. Almost every United States military aircraft since the 1950s has been at least partially tested at Edwards, and it has been the site of many aviation breakthroughs.
A major reason for the growth of Edwards AFB was the nearness of West Coast aircraft manufacturers. However, another major reason was the decision in 1947 to build a missile test facility on the base. The need for a static missile faculty to test high-thrust missile rocket engines was first envisioned in 1946 by the Power Plant Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was that decision that such a facility should be government-owned to prevent single contractor exclusive advantages on Air Force contracts for high-thrust missile rocket power plants, and it would eliminate duplication of like facilities by different manufacturers.The curriculum of Edwards AFB focused on the traditional field of performance testing and the relatively new field of stability and control, which had suddenly assumed critical importance with the dramatic increases in speed offered by the new turbojets.
Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, test flights of the North American X-15, the first landings of the Space Shuttle, and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager. Airplanes from Edwards AFB provided the flyovers at many outdoor sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, many World Series games at Dodger Stadium, and the missing man formation after the National Anthem at Super Bowls at the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena, sung by Cheryl Ladd, Neil Diamond, and Garth Brooks. The base's five-man color guard has accompanied presentations of the National Anthem by a who's who of recording artists at these and other major sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1984 Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, many NBA Finals games, two Stanley Cup Finals, two National Hockey League All-Star Games, and three NBA All-Star Games, most notably accompanying Marvin Gaye's performance at the 1983 game in Inglewood, California.
- published: 04 Dec 2015
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The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notable attendees included X-1 pilot Chuck Yeager, X-15 pilot Pete Walker, X-15 and Space Shuttle pilot Joe Engle, NB-52B pilot Fitzhugh Fulton, NASA Photographer Tony Landis, and Aviation Artist Mike Machat.
- published: 05 Dec 2013
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Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan I, Titan II, Polaris, MInuteman, Atlas, Redstone, and Delta launches are shown. These are followed by the Mercury-Atlas 9, Gordon Cooper, Faith 7 launch (the final flight in Project Mercury), the Gemini-Titan 3 GT-3 Gemini III Gus Grissom and John Young launch (the first manned flight of Project Gemini) and the first Saturn I launch.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing, headquartered at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. Located on Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida, CCAFS is the primary launch head of America's Eastern Range with four launch pads currently active. The facility is south-southeast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, with the two linked by bridges and causeways. The Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip provides a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway close to the launch complexes for military airlift aircraft delivering heavy and outsized payloads to the Cape.
Several major American space exploration "firsts" were launched from CCAFS, including the first U.S. earth satellite (1958), first U.S. astronaut (1961), first U.S. astronaut in orbit (1962), first two-man U.S. spacecraft (1965), first U.S. unmanned lunar landing (1966), and first three-man U.S. spacecraft (1968). It was also the launch site for the first spacecraft to ever fly past the other planets in the Solar System (1962--1977), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971) and roam its surface (1996), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus (1978), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn (2004), and to orbit Mercury (2011)...
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Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then an Air Force major. The Atlas rocket was No. 130-D, and the Mercury spacecraft was No. 20...
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Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, the spacecraft, nicknamed Molly Brown, performed the seventh manned US spaceflight, and the 17th manned spaceflight overall (including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers). It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Canaveral, Florida before mission control functions were shifted to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas...
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SA-1 was the first Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program. The rocket was launched on October 27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Objectives
The Saturn I booster was a huge increase in size and power over anything previously launched. It was three times taller, required six times more fuel and produced ten times more thrust than the Jupiter-C rocket that had launched the first American satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit in 1958.
At the time, NASA had decided to not use all-up testing, when an entire system is tested at once. The agency planned to test each rocket stage in separate launches, so for SA-1 the only live stage was the S-I first stage.
This first flight was designed to test the structure of the launch vehicle during a suborbital flight using the nose cone from a Jupiter rocket...
- published: 12 Oct 2012
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Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009.
- published: 18 Oct 2009
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The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, California, where it will be placed on permanent display.
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- published: 09 May 2010
- views: 21492
This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 with dual jettisonable mainwheels for heavyweight takeoffs, B-47 and Rascal tests, a B-52 landing gear mishap, ZELMAL zero-length launches, the turboprop XF-84H and much more in this nearly 30-minute vintage film presentation. (Have you subscribed to the Airailimages YouTube channel? Thanks! ) And here's our Edwards AFB historical Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJEBtHWRTBpkM5MOMK-tUkTzj7X9W8l1
- published: 24 Mar 2013
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"Traces history of Muroc Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, California, as an air proving ground and research center since the early days of aviation. documents experiments in rocketry and with X-series, V-STOL and fixed wing aircraft. points out rocket propulsion laboratory's work in missile development. Cites Edwards' prominent position in USAF space age research."
US Air Force film SFP-1385
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
from "Flights of Discovery: 50 Years at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center" http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19970004281_1996101641.pdf
The Army's initial interest in the area around Rogers Dry Lake was as a bombing and gunnery range in the years preceding World War 11, and a formal army air base was established near the town of Muroc in July 1942.
But it was the advent of jet engines and higher speed aircraft that highlighted the real strengths of the desert location. The new experimental jet aircraft, starting with the Bell XP-59A, required longer runways than most air bases had, and the classified nature of the research required a remote site for flight testing. The Muroc Army Airfield, officials realized, was the perfect choice for this kind of work.
These same reasons led the Army Air Forces, Bell Aircraft, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to choose Muroc as the test site when they undertook the challenge of designing and building a research
aircraft to break the notorious "sound barrier."
In the fall of 1946, the first NACA contingent of 13 engineers, instrument technicians, and support staff arrived at the Muroc Army Airfield to support the X-1 effort...
The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) is situated just a short hike down the flightline from the Dryden Flight Research Center at what is now Edwards Air Force Base. The flightlines of both centers display an impressive array of high performance aircraft and, to a casual observer, there might seem little difference in the work the two facilities do. Both centers employ highly skilled pilots who fly new and experimental aircraft configurations to precise test points. In both cases, data from those maneuvers is collected by various types of instrumentation and recorded or sent back to the ground, where it is processed by engineers, technicians and analysts.
The difference between flight test and flight research lies not in the mechanics of each operation, but in the questions that drive the work and how unexpected discoveries are viewed. In flight test, the objective is to compare the airplane's performance against set specifications it is supposed to meet. The idea is not to explore new realms of aeronautical knowledge, but simply to make sure that a new aircraft design or configuration performs in an acceptable manner. Unless the anomaly is better-than-predicted performance, unexpected results in a flight test program indicate problems that need to be fixed. The information gained through flight test is also directed toward a specific customer with regard to a specific product.
Flight research, on the other hand, gathers information that can be used by a much wider audience for a wide variety of applications. In addition, flight research involves much broader questions...
- published: 29 Mar 2016
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Air force
An air force, also known in some countries as an air army, is in the broadest sense, the national military organization that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army, navy, or a marine corps. Typically, air forces are responsible for gaining control of the air, carrying out strategic and tactical bombing missions, and providing support to land and naval forces.
The term "air force" may also refer to a tactical air force or numbered air force, which is an operational formation either within a national air force or comprising several air components from allied nations. Air forces typically consist of a combination of fighters, bombers, helicopters, transport planes and other aircraft.
Many air forces are also responsible for operations of the military space, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), and communications equipment. Some air forces may command and control other air defence assets such as anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air missiles, or anti-ballistic missile warning networks and defensive systems. Some nations, principally Russia, the former Soviet Union and countries who modelled their militaries along Soviet lines, have an air defence force which is organizationally separate from their air force.
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Flight test
Flight testing is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops and gathers data during flight of an aircraft, or atmospheric testing of launch vehicles and reusable spacecraft, and then analyzes the data to evaluate the aerodynamic flight characteristics of the vehicle in order to validate the design, including safety aspects.
The flight test phase accomplishes two major tasks: 1) finding and fixing any design problems and then 2) verifying and documenting the vehicle capabilities for government certification or customer acceptance. The flight test phase can range from the test of a single new system for an existing vehicle to the complete development and certification of a new aircraft, launch vehicle, or reusable spacecraft. Therefore, the duration of a particular flight test program can vary from a few weeks to many years.
Aircraft flight test
Civil aircraft
There are typically two categories of flight test programs – commercial and military. Commercial flight testing is conducted to certify that the aircraft meets all applicable safety and performance requirements of the government certifying agency. In the US, this is the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); in Canada, Transport Canada (TC); in the United Kingdom (UK), the Civil Aviation Authority; and in the European Union, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Since commercial aircraft development is normally funded by the aircraft manufacturer and/or private investors, the certifying agency does not have a stake in the commercial success of the aircraft. These civil agencies are concerned with the aircraft’s safety and that the pilot’s flight manual accurately reports the aircraft’s performance. The market will determine the aircraft’s suitability to operators. Normally, the civil certification agency does not get involved in flight testing until the manufacturer has found and fixed any development issues and is ready to seek certification.
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601 Squadron (Israel)
601 Squadron, also known as Manat (Hebrew: מנ"ט, an acronym for Merkaz Nisu'ey Tisa, Hebrew: מרכז ניסויי טיסה, lit. Flight Test Center), is the Israeli Air Force unit responsible for flight and weapons testing, airframe modification and avionics integration.
Although formed in 1978, Manat may have its origins in a flight test unit established as early as March 1950. Based at Tel Nof, Manat comprises a flight section, including test pilots and flight testing engineers, a technical section charged with aircraft maintenance, an avionics section, and a UAV section operating from Palmachim. The squadron operates a fully instrumented example of every Israeli Air Force frontline combat aircraft type on strength at any time. It also operates a number of UAVs and will utilize helicopter and transport types from other squadrons when necessary.
Among the aircraft currently operated by Manat are four F-16 Fighting Falcons, representing the different variants of the aircraft in service: F-16C Block 30 #301, F-16D Block 30 #020, F-16D Block 40 #601 and F-16I Block 52+ #401. F-16D #601, designated CK-1, was designed by Lockheed to meet specific flight test requirements. Another aircraft operated by the squadron is F-15I #201 (94-0286), the very first F-15I built. Manat has also participated in the evaluation of foreign aircraft types, including the Syrian MiG-23 whose pilot defected to Israel in October 1989 and a pair of MiG-29s loaned from a European air force in 1995. During its stay in Israel, one of the MiG-29s even carried the squadron emblem.
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Military airbase
An military airbase (sometimes referred to as a military airfield, military airport, air force station, air force base or short airbase) is an aerodrome used by a military force for the operation of military aircraft.
Airbase facilities
An airbase typically has some facilities similar to a civilian airport—for example air traffic control and firefighting. Some military aerodromes have passenger facilities; for example RAF Brize Norton in England has a terminal used by passengers for the Royal Air Force's flights by TriStar to the Falkland Islands. A number of military airbases also have a civil enclave for commercial passenger flights, e.g. Beijing Nanyuan Airport (China), Ibaraki Airport (Japan), Burlington International Airport (USA).
Some airbases have revetments, hardened aircraft shelters, or even underground hangars, to protect aircraft from enemy attack. Combat aircraft require storage of aircraft ordnance. An airbase may be defended by anti-aircraft weapons and force protection troops.
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Air Force Test Center
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) is a development and test organization of the United States Air Force. It conducts research, development, test, and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to deployment. It has test flown every aircraft in the Air Force's inventory since World War II. The center employs nearly 13,000 people and controls the second largest base in the Air Force.
On 6 July 2012, the previous Air Force Flight Test Center was redesignated the Air Force Test Center. Up until July 2012, the AFTC consists of two subordinate wings. The 95th Air Base Wing provides installation support for all units on Edwards Air Force Base. The 412th Test Wing conducts aircraft testing and evaluation. In July 2012, the redesignated 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; and Arnold Air Force Base's Arnold Engineering Development Complex also came under control of the AFTC.
Overview
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) conducts developmental and follow-on testing and evaluation of manned and unmanned aircraft and related avionics, flight-control, and weapon systems. AFTC also operates the USAF Test Pilot School, which trains test pilots, flight-test engineers, and flight-test navigators.
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16:46Scientific Photography at the Air Force Flight Test Center 1963 USAF; Edwards AFB
Scientific Photography at the Air Force Flight Test Center 1963 USAF; Edwards AFBScientific Photography at the Air Force Flight Test Center 1963 USAF; Edwards AFB
Motion Picture Production, Processes, History... playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL946E9DAD36E3CC64 more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html US Air Force Film SFP-1162. The AV quality of this film is quite low (I cleaned it up as best I could) but the information it contains is quite good. Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Test_Center The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) is a development and test organization of the United States Air Force. It conducts research, development, test, and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to deployment. It has test flown every aircraft in the Air Force's inventory since World War II. The center employs nearly 13,000 people and controls the second largest base in the Air Force. On 6 July 2012, the previous Air Force Flight Test Center was redesignated the Air Force Test Center. Up until July 2012, the AFTC consists of two subordinate wings. The 95th Air Base Wing provides installation support for all units on Edwards Air Force Base. The 412th Test Wing conducts aircraft testing and evaluation. In July 2012, the redesignated 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; and Arnold Air Force Base's Arnold Engineering Development Complex also came under control of the AFTC... Overview The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) conducts developmental and follow-on testing and evaluation of manned and unmanned aircraft and related avionics, flight-control, and weapon systems. AFTC also operates the USAF Test Pilot School, which trains test pilots, flight-test engineers, and flight-test navigators. The Center has tested all the aircraft types in the Air Force inventory, and the center's work force—civilian, military and contractor—work together to flight test and evaluate new aircraft and upgrades to aircraft already in inventory for Air Force units, the Department of Defense, NASA and other government agencies. Upgrades to be tested here include improvements to radar, weapons-delivery and navigation systems, and a system to give tactical pilots the ability to strike ground targets from low altitudes at night and in adverse weather. The Air Force Test Center develops, operates and maintains the Edwards Flight Test Range and Utah Test and Training Range. It also operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. The Center provides test infrastructure, overhead support for development, and operational test and evaluation support for aerospace research vehicles. AFFTC resources include the test and evaluation mission simulator, the Benefield Anechoic Chamber, Ridley Mission Control, and the Integration Facility for Avionics Systems Testing... Air Force Flight Test Museum The Air Force Flight Test Museum is open to military personnel with credentials to enter the base as well as general public tours offered periodically. The museum also features 40 aircraft on display at the museum or the nearby Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, California. The museum also features aircraft engines, missiles, hardware, life support equipment, technical drawings, test reports memorabilia, and models... -
13:02Wright Field: The Test Center for the Army Air Force (1943)
Wright Field: The Test Center for the Army Air Force (1943)Wright Field: The Test Center for the Army Air Force (1943)
Get this film & dozens more on our new “American Military Aviation Newsreels & Air Force Alerts 1941-1943” DVD http://bit.ly/1OfN9kg Wright Field was the hub of US Army Air Force testing & development during World War 2. Virtually all aircraft produced by the Allies were flown in for evaluation, including (as you'll see) Spits, Hurricanes, P-38s, P-39s, P-40s, A-20s, B-17s, the Mammoth B-19, B-24s & B-25s.& more Giant wind tunnels & in flight air flow markers tested aerodynamics. A large facility was devoted solely for developing & testing propellers. here's even a peak at an early radar array, purposely miss-identified as a 'long range sound detection device.|” Virtually every system in aircrafts were tested, including brakes, hydraulics,landing gear machine guns, & gun sights. Different munitions were developed including incendiary bombs. You'll also see the development of specialized landing lights, a high altitude testing chamber for men & equipment, parachute testing & more Zeno Zeno's Warbird Videos http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com Zeno's Flight Shop DVD Store – Worlds Largest Collection of WW2 Videos http://www.zenosflightshop.com -
4:36Edwards Air Force Base - Home Of The Air Force Flight Test Center | #Flashback Friday
Edwards Air Force Base - Home Of The Air Force Flight Test Center | #Flashback FridayEdwards Air Force Base - Home Of The Air Force Flight Test Center | #Flashback Friday
Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Also, it operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry. Click to share it on Facebook: https://goo.gl/t8OIzZ Click to share it on Twitter: https://goo.gl/rwPJoK Click to share it on Google Plus: https://goo.gl/4oD6vc Edwards AFB is named in honor of Captain Glen Edwards. During World War II, the captain flew 50 missions in A-20 Havoc light attack bombers in the North African campaign on extremely hazardous, low-level missions against German tanks, convoys, troop concentrations, bridges, airfields, and a variety of other tactical targets. The base has played a significant role in the development of every aircraft to enter the Air Force inventory since World War II. Almost every United States military aircraft since the 1950s has been at least partially tested at Edwards, and it has been the site of many aviation breakthroughs. A major reason for the growth of Edwards AFB was the nearness of West Coast aircraft manufacturers. However, another major reason was the decision in 1947 to build a missile test facility on the base. The need for a static missile faculty to test high-thrust missile rocket engines was first envisioned in 1946 by the Power Plant Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was that decision that such a facility should be government-owned to prevent single contractor exclusive advantages on Air Force contracts for high-thrust missile rocket power plants, and it would eliminate duplication of like facilities by different manufacturers.The curriculum of Edwards AFB focused on the traditional field of performance testing and the relatively new field of stability and control, which had suddenly assumed critical importance with the dramatic increases in speed offered by the new turbojets. Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, test flights of the North American X-15, the first landings of the Space Shuttle, and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager. Airplanes from Edwards AFB provided the flyovers at many outdoor sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, many World Series games at Dodger Stadium, and the missing man formation after the National Anthem at Super Bowls at the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena, sung by Cheryl Ladd, Neil Diamond, and Garth Brooks. The base's five-man color guard has accompanied presentations of the National Anthem by a who's who of recording artists at these and other major sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1984 Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, many NBA Finals games, two Stanley Cup Finals, two National Hockey League All-Star Games, and three NBA All-Star Games, most notably accompanying Marvin Gaye's performance at the 1983 game in Inglewood, California. -
12:34Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Opening Day Tour, Edwards Air Force Base, July 21, 2000
Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Opening Day Tour, Edwards Air Force Base, July 21, 2000Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Opening Day Tour, Edwards Air Force Base, July 21, 2000
The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notable attendees included X-1 pilot Chuck Yeager, X-15 pilot Pete Walker, X-15 and Space Shuttle pilot Joe Engle, NB-52B pilot Fitzhugh Fulton, NASA Photographer Tony Landis, and Aviation Artist Mike Machat. -
33:15Rocket Launch Blowups & Successes: Air Force Missile Test Center Footage c 1965 USAF Cape Canaveral
Rocket Launch Blowups & Successes: Air Force Missile Test Center Footage c 1965 USAF Cape CanaveralRocket Launch Blowups & Successes: Air Force Missile Test Center Footage c 1965 USAF Cape Canaveral
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_news.html Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan I, Titan II, Polaris, MInuteman, Atlas, Redstone, and Delta launches are shown. These are followed by the Mercury-Atlas 9, Gordon Cooper, Faith 7 launch (the final flight in Project Mercury), the Gemini-Titan 3 GT-3 Gemini III Gus Grissom and John Young launch (the first manned flight of Project Gemini) and the first Saturn I launch. Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing, headquartered at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. Located on Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida, CCAFS is the primary launch head of America's Eastern Range with four launch pads currently active. The facility is south-southeast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, with the two linked by bridges and causeways. The Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip provides a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway close to the launch complexes for military airlift aircraft delivering heavy and outsized payloads to the Cape. Several major American space exploration "firsts" were launched from CCAFS, including the first U.S. earth satellite (1958), first U.S. astronaut (1961), first U.S. astronaut in orbit (1962), first two-man U.S. spacecraft (1965), first U.S. unmanned lunar landing (1966), and first three-man U.S. spacecraft (1968). It was also the launch site for the first spacecraft to ever fly past the other planets in the Solar System (1962--1977), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971) and roam its surface (1996), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus (1978), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn (2004), and to orbit Mercury (2011)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_7 Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then an Air Force major. The Atlas rocket was No. 130-D, and the Mercury spacecraft was No. 20... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_3 Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, the spacecraft, nicknamed Molly Brown, performed the seventh manned US spaceflight, and the 17th manned spaceflight overall (including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers). It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Canaveral, Florida before mission control functions were shifted to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-1_(Apollo) SA-1 was the first Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program. The rocket was launched on October 27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Objectives The Saturn I booster was a huge increase in size and power over anything previously launched. It was three times taller, required six times more fuel and produced ten times more thrust than the Jupiter-C rocket that had launched the first American satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit in 1958. At the time, NASA had decided to not use all-up testing, when an entire system is tested at once. The agency planned to test each rocket stage in separate launches, so for SA-1 the only live stage was the S-I first stage. This first flight was designed to test the structure of the launch vehicle during a suborbital flight using the nose cone from a Jupiter rocket... -
2:24Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby (Friday Practice) - Test Flight Nation 2009
Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby (Friday Practice) - Test Flight Nation 2009Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby (Friday Practice) - Test Flight Nation 2009
Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009. -
1:23YF-22 Prototype Moves To Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Edwards AFB
YF-22 Prototype Moves To Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Edwards AFBYF-22 Prototype Moves To Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Edwards AFB
Courtesy: USAF AFFTC Museum http://www.afftcmuseum.org The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, California, where it will be placed on permanent display. Click to subscribe! http://bit.ly/subAIRBOYD The most viewed aviation channel on YouTube. -
30:22Air Force Flight Test Projects of the Mid-1950s
Air Force Flight Test Projects of the Mid-1950sAir Force Flight Test Projects of the Mid-1950s
This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 with dual jettisonable mainwheels for heavyweight takeoffs, B-47 and Rascal tests, a B-52 landing gear mishap, ZELMAL zero-length launches, the turboprop XF-84H and much more in this nearly 30-minute vintage film presentation. (Have you subscribed to the Airailimages YouTube channel? Thanks! ) And here's our Edwards AFB historical Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJEBtHWRTBpkM5MOMK-tUkTzj7X9W8l1 -
24:33History of Muroc-Edwards Air Force Base "Toward the Unexplored" 1967 USAF Flight Test Center
History of Muroc-Edwards Air Force Base "Toward the Unexplored" 1967 USAF Flight Test CenterHistory of Muroc-Edwards Air Force Base "Toward the Unexplored" 1967 USAF Flight Test Center
Aircraft playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23A1203602337689 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html "Traces history of Muroc Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, California, as an air proving ground and research center since the early days of aviation. documents experiments in rocketry and with X-series, V-STOL and fixed wing aircraft. points out rocket propulsion laboratory's work in missile development. Cites Edwards' prominent position in USAF space age research." US Air Force film SFP-1385 Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound. Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). from "Flights of Discovery: 50 Years at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center" http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19970004281_1996101641.pdf The Army's initial interest in the area around Rogers Dry Lake was as a bombing and gunnery range in the years preceding World War 11, and a formal army air base was established near the town of Muroc in July 1942. But it was the advent of jet engines and higher speed aircraft that highlighted the real strengths of the desert location. The new experimental jet aircraft, starting with the Bell XP-59A, required longer runways than most air bases had, and the classified nature of the research required a remote site for flight testing. The Muroc Army Airfield, officials realized, was the perfect choice for this kind of work. These same reasons led the Army Air Forces, Bell Aircraft, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to choose Muroc as the test site when they undertook the challenge of designing and building a research aircraft to break the notorious "sound barrier." In the fall of 1946, the first NACA contingent of 13 engineers, instrument technicians, and support staff arrived at the Muroc Army Airfield to support the X-1 effort... The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) is situated just a short hike down the flightline from the Dryden Flight Research Center at what is now Edwards Air Force Base. The flightlines of both centers display an impressive array of high performance aircraft and, to a casual observer, there might seem little difference in the work the two facilities do. Both centers employ highly skilled pilots who fly new and experimental aircraft configurations to precise test points. In both cases, data from those maneuvers is collected by various types of instrumentation and recorded or sent back to the ground, where it is processed by engineers, technicians and analysts. The difference between flight test and flight research lies not in the mechanics of each operation, but in the questions that drive the work and how unexpected discoveries are viewed. In flight test, the objective is to compare the airplane's performance against set specifications it is supposed to meet. The idea is not to explore new realms of aeronautical knowledge, but simply to make sure that a new aircraft design or configuration performs in an acceptable manner. Unless the anomaly is better-than-predicted performance, unexpected results in a flight test program indicate problems that need to be fixed. The information gained through flight test is also directed toward a specific customer with regard to a specific product. Flight research, on the other hand, gathers information that can be used by a much wider audience for a wide variety of applications. In addition, flight research involves much broader questions... -
3:31Edwards AFB 2016 HD
Edwards AFB 2016 HD
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Scientific Photography at the Air Force Flight Test Center 1963 USAF; Edwards AFB
Motion Picture Production, Processes, History... playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL946E9DAD36E3CC64 more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html US Air Force Film SFP-1162. The AV quality of this film is quite low (I cleaned it up as best I could) but the information it contains is quite good. Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http...
published: 17 Oct 2016 -
Wright Field: The Test Center for the Army Air Force (1943)
Get this film & dozens more on our new “American Military Aviation Newsreels & Air Force Alerts 1941-1943” DVD http://bit.ly/1OfN9kg Wright Field was the hub of US Army Air Force testing & development during World War 2. Virtually all aircraft produced by the Allies were flown in for evaluation, including (as you'll see) Spits, Hurricanes, P-38s, P-39s, P-40s, A-20s, B-17s, the Mammoth B-19, B-24s & B-25s.& more Giant wind tunnels & in flight air flow markers tested aerodynamics. A large facility was devoted solely for developing & testing propellers. here's even a peak at an early radar array, purposely miss-identified as a 'long range sound detection device.|” Virtually every system in aircrafts were tested, including brakes, hydraulics,landing gear machine guns, & gun sights. Differ...
published: 05 May 2016 -
Edwards Air Force Base - Home Of The Air Force Flight Test Center | #Flashback Friday
Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Also, it operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry. Click to share it on Facebook: https://goo.gl/t8OIzZ Click to share it on Twitter: https://goo.gl/rwPJoK Click to share it on Google Plus: https://goo.gl/4oD6vc Edwards AFB is named in honor of Captain Glen Edwards. During World War II, the captain flew 50 missions in A-20 Havoc light attack...
published: 04 Dec 2015 -
Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Opening Day Tour, Edwards Air Force Base, July 21, 2000
The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notable attendees included X-1 pilot Chuck Yeager, X-15 pilot Pete Walker, X-15 and Space Shuttle pilot Joe Engle, NB-52B pilot Fitzhugh Fulton, NASA Photographer Tony Landis, and Aviation Artist Mike Machat.
published: 05 Dec 2013 -
Rocket Launch Blowups & Successes: Air Force Missile Test Center Footage c 1965 USAF Cape Canaveral
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_news.html Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan I, Titan II, Polaris, MInuteman, Atlas, Redstone, and Delta launches are shown. These are followed by the Mercury-Atlas 9, Gordon Cooper, Faith 7 launch (the final flight in Project Mercury), the Gemini-Titan 3 GT-3 Gemini III Gus Grissom and John Young launch (the first manned flight of Project Gemini) and the first Saturn I launch. Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, t...
published: 12 Oct 2012 -
Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby (Friday Practice) - Test Flight Nation 2009
Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009.
published: 18 Oct 2009 -
YF-22 Prototype Moves To Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Edwards AFB
Courtesy: USAF AFFTC Museum http://www.afftcmuseum.org The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, California, where it will be placed on permanent display. Click to subscribe! http://bit.ly/subAIRBOYD The most viewed aviation channel on YouTube.
published: 09 May 2010 -
Air Force Flight Test Projects of the Mid-1950s
This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 with dual jettisonable mainwheels for heavyweight takeoffs, B-47 and Rascal tests, a B-52 landing gear mishap, ZELMAL zero-length launches, the turboprop XF-84H and much more in this nearly 30-minute vintage film presentation. (Have you subscribed to the Airailimages YouTube channel? Thanks! ) And here's our Edwards AFB historical Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJEBtHWRTBpkM5MOMK-tUkTzj7X9W8l1
published: 24 Mar 2013 -
History of Muroc-Edwards Air Force Base "Toward the Unexplored" 1967 USAF Flight Test Center
Aircraft playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23A1203602337689 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html "Traces history of Muroc Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, California, as an air proving ground and research center since the early days of aviation. documents experiments in rocketry and with X-series, V-STOL and fixed wing aircraft. points out rocket propulsion laboratory's work in missile development. Cites Edwards' prominent position in USAF space age research." US Air Force film SFP-1385 Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound. Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contr...
published: 29 Mar 2016 -
Scientific Photography at the Air Force Flight Test Center 1963 USAF; Edwards AFB
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- Duration: 16:46
- Updated: 17 Oct 2016
- views: 1162
Motion Picture Production, Processes, History... playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL946E9DAD36E3CC64
more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net/avia...
Motion Picture Production, Processes, History... playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL946E9DAD36E3CC64
more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html
US Air Force Film SFP-1162. The AV quality of this film is quite low (I cleaned it up as best I could) but the information it contains is quite good.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Test_Center
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) is a development and test organization of the United States Air Force. It conducts research, development, test, and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to deployment. It has test flown every aircraft in the Air Force's inventory since World War II. The center employs nearly 13,000 people and controls the second largest base in the Air Force.
On 6 July 2012, the previous Air Force Flight Test Center was redesignated the Air Force Test Center. Up until July 2012, the AFTC consists of two subordinate wings. The 95th Air Base Wing provides installation support for all units on Edwards Air Force Base. The 412th Test Wing conducts aircraft testing and evaluation. In July 2012, the redesignated 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; and Arnold Air Force Base's Arnold Engineering Development Complex also came under control of the AFTC...
Overview
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) conducts developmental and follow-on testing and evaluation of manned and unmanned aircraft and related avionics, flight-control, and weapon systems. AFTC also operates the USAF Test Pilot School, which trains test pilots, flight-test engineers, and flight-test navigators.
The Center has tested all the aircraft types in the Air Force inventory, and the center's work force—civilian, military and contractor—work together to flight test and evaluate new aircraft and upgrades to aircraft already in inventory for Air Force units, the Department of Defense, NASA and other government agencies. Upgrades to be tested here include improvements to radar, weapons-delivery and navigation systems, and a system to give tactical pilots the ability to strike ground targets from low altitudes at night and in adverse weather.
The Air Force Test Center develops, operates and maintains the Edwards Flight Test Range and Utah Test and Training Range. It also operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. The Center provides test infrastructure, overhead support for development, and operational test and evaluation support for aerospace research vehicles. AFFTC resources include the test and evaluation mission simulator, the Benefield Anechoic Chamber, Ridley Mission Control, and the Integration Facility for Avionics Systems Testing...
Air Force Flight Test Museum
The Air Force Flight Test Museum is open to military personnel with credentials to enter the base as well as general public tours offered periodically. The museum also features 40 aircraft on display at the museum or the nearby Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, California. The museum also features aircraft engines, missiles, hardware, life support equipment, technical drawings, test reports memorabilia, and models...
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Motion Picture Production, Processes, History... playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL946E9DAD36E3CC64
more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html
US Air Force Film SFP-1162. The AV quality of this film is quite low (I cleaned it up as best I could) but the information it contains is quite good.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Test_Center
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) is a development and test organization of the United States Air Force. It conducts research, development, test, and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to deployment. It has test flown every aircraft in the Air Force's inventory since World War II. The center employs nearly 13,000 people and controls the second largest base in the Air Force.
On 6 July 2012, the previous Air Force Flight Test Center was redesignated the Air Force Test Center. Up until July 2012, the AFTC consists of two subordinate wings. The 95th Air Base Wing provides installation support for all units on Edwards Air Force Base. The 412th Test Wing conducts aircraft testing and evaluation. In July 2012, the redesignated 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; and Arnold Air Force Base's Arnold Engineering Development Complex also came under control of the AFTC...
Overview
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) conducts developmental and follow-on testing and evaluation of manned and unmanned aircraft and related avionics, flight-control, and weapon systems. AFTC also operates the USAF Test Pilot School, which trains test pilots, flight-test engineers, and flight-test navigators.
The Center has tested all the aircraft types in the Air Force inventory, and the center's work force—civilian, military and contractor—work together to flight test and evaluate new aircraft and upgrades to aircraft already in inventory for Air Force units, the Department of Defense, NASA and other government agencies. Upgrades to be tested here include improvements to radar, weapons-delivery and navigation systems, and a system to give tactical pilots the ability to strike ground targets from low altitudes at night and in adverse weather.
The Air Force Test Center develops, operates and maintains the Edwards Flight Test Range and Utah Test and Training Range. It also operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. The Center provides test infrastructure, overhead support for development, and operational test and evaluation support for aerospace research vehicles. AFFTC resources include the test and evaluation mission simulator, the Benefield Anechoic Chamber, Ridley Mission Control, and the Integration Facility for Avionics Systems Testing...
Air Force Flight Test Museum
The Air Force Flight Test Museum is open to military personnel with credentials to enter the base as well as general public tours offered periodically. The museum also features 40 aircraft on display at the museum or the nearby Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, California. The museum also features aircraft engines, missiles, hardware, life support equipment, technical drawings, test reports memorabilia, and models...
- published: 17 Oct 2016
- views: 1162
Wright Field: The Test Center for the Army Air Force (1943)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:02
- Updated: 05 May 2016
- views: 3312
Get this film & dozens more on our new “American Military Aviation Newsreels & Air Force Alerts 1941-1943” DVD http://bit.ly/1OfN9kg
Wright Field was the hub of...
Get this film & dozens more on our new “American Military Aviation Newsreels & Air Force Alerts 1941-1943” DVD http://bit.ly/1OfN9kg
Wright Field was the hub of US Army Air Force testing & development during World War 2. Virtually all aircraft produced by the Allies were flown in for evaluation, including (as you'll see) Spits, Hurricanes, P-38s, P-39s, P-40s, A-20s, B-17s, the Mammoth B-19, B-24s & B-25s.& more Giant wind tunnels & in flight air flow markers tested aerodynamics. A large facility was devoted solely for developing & testing propellers. here's even a peak at an early radar array, purposely miss-identified as a 'long range sound detection device.|” Virtually every system in aircrafts were tested, including brakes, hydraulics,landing gear machine guns, & gun sights. Different munitions were developed including incendiary bombs. You'll also see the development of specialized landing lights, a high altitude testing chamber for men & equipment, parachute testing & more
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Get this film & dozens more on our new “American Military Aviation Newsreels & Air Force Alerts 1941-1943” DVD http://bit.ly/1OfN9kg
Wright Field was the hub of US Army Air Force testing & development during World War 2. Virtually all aircraft produced by the Allies were flown in for evaluation, including (as you'll see) Spits, Hurricanes, P-38s, P-39s, P-40s, A-20s, B-17s, the Mammoth B-19, B-24s & B-25s.& more Giant wind tunnels & in flight air flow markers tested aerodynamics. A large facility was devoted solely for developing & testing propellers. here's even a peak at an early radar array, purposely miss-identified as a 'long range sound detection device.|” Virtually every system in aircrafts were tested, including brakes, hydraulics,landing gear machine guns, & gun sights. Different munitions were developed including incendiary bombs. You'll also see the development of specialized landing lights, a high altitude testing chamber for men & equipment, parachute testing & more
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- published: 05 May 2016
- views: 3312
Edwards Air Force Base - Home Of The Air Force Flight Test Center | #Flashback Friday
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 04 Dec 2015
- views: 133
Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellen...
Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Also, it operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Edwards AFB is named in honor of Captain Glen Edwards. During World War II, the captain flew 50 missions in A-20 Havoc light attack bombers in the North African campaign on extremely hazardous, low-level missions against German tanks, convoys, troop concentrations, bridges, airfields, and a variety of other tactical targets. The base has played a significant role in the development of every aircraft to enter the Air Force inventory since World War II. Almost every United States military aircraft since the 1950s has been at least partially tested at Edwards, and it has been the site of many aviation breakthroughs.
A major reason for the growth of Edwards AFB was the nearness of West Coast aircraft manufacturers. However, another major reason was the decision in 1947 to build a missile test facility on the base. The need for a static missile faculty to test high-thrust missile rocket engines was first envisioned in 1946 by the Power Plant Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was that decision that such a facility should be government-owned to prevent single contractor exclusive advantages on Air Force contracts for high-thrust missile rocket power plants, and it would eliminate duplication of like facilities by different manufacturers.The curriculum of Edwards AFB focused on the traditional field of performance testing and the relatively new field of stability and control, which had suddenly assumed critical importance with the dramatic increases in speed offered by the new turbojets.
Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, test flights of the North American X-15, the first landings of the Space Shuttle, and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager. Airplanes from Edwards AFB provided the flyovers at many outdoor sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, many World Series games at Dodger Stadium, and the missing man formation after the National Anthem at Super Bowls at the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena, sung by Cheryl Ladd, Neil Diamond, and Garth Brooks. The base's five-man color guard has accompanied presentations of the National Anthem by a who's who of recording artists at these and other major sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1984 Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, many NBA Finals games, two Stanley Cup Finals, two National Hockey League All-Star Games, and three NBA All-Star Games, most notably accompanying Marvin Gaye's performance at the 1983 game in Inglewood, California.
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Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Also, it operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Edwards AFB is named in honor of Captain Glen Edwards. During World War II, the captain flew 50 missions in A-20 Havoc light attack bombers in the North African campaign on extremely hazardous, low-level missions against German tanks, convoys, troop concentrations, bridges, airfields, and a variety of other tactical targets. The base has played a significant role in the development of every aircraft to enter the Air Force inventory since World War II. Almost every United States military aircraft since the 1950s has been at least partially tested at Edwards, and it has been the site of many aviation breakthroughs.
A major reason for the growth of Edwards AFB was the nearness of West Coast aircraft manufacturers. However, another major reason was the decision in 1947 to build a missile test facility on the base. The need for a static missile faculty to test high-thrust missile rocket engines was first envisioned in 1946 by the Power Plant Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was that decision that such a facility should be government-owned to prevent single contractor exclusive advantages on Air Force contracts for high-thrust missile rocket power plants, and it would eliminate duplication of like facilities by different manufacturers.The curriculum of Edwards AFB focused on the traditional field of performance testing and the relatively new field of stability and control, which had suddenly assumed critical importance with the dramatic increases in speed offered by the new turbojets.
Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, test flights of the North American X-15, the first landings of the Space Shuttle, and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager. Airplanes from Edwards AFB provided the flyovers at many outdoor sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, many World Series games at Dodger Stadium, and the missing man formation after the National Anthem at Super Bowls at the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena, sung by Cheryl Ladd, Neil Diamond, and Garth Brooks. The base's five-man color guard has accompanied presentations of the National Anthem by a who's who of recording artists at these and other major sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1984 Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, many NBA Finals games, two Stanley Cup Finals, two National Hockey League All-Star Games, and three NBA All-Star Games, most notably accompanying Marvin Gaye's performance at the 1983 game in Inglewood, California.
- published: 04 Dec 2015
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Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Opening Day Tour, Edwards Air Force Base, July 21, 2000
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- Duration: 12:34
- Updated: 05 Dec 2013
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The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notab...
The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notable attendees included X-1 pilot Chuck Yeager, X-15 pilot Pete Walker, X-15 and Space Shuttle pilot Joe Engle, NB-52B pilot Fitzhugh Fulton, NASA Photographer Tony Landis, and Aviation Artist Mike Machat.
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The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notable attendees included X-1 pilot Chuck Yeager, X-15 pilot Pete Walker, X-15 and Space Shuttle pilot Joe Engle, NB-52B pilot Fitzhugh Fulton, NASA Photographer Tony Landis, and Aviation Artist Mike Machat.
- published: 05 Dec 2013
- views: 1307
Rocket Launch Blowups & Successes: Air Force Missile Test Center Footage c 1965 USAF Cape Canaveral
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- Duration: 33:15
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
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Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan...
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Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan I, Titan II, Polaris, MInuteman, Atlas, Redstone, and Delta launches are shown. These are followed by the Mercury-Atlas 9, Gordon Cooper, Faith 7 launch (the final flight in Project Mercury), the Gemini-Titan 3 GT-3 Gemini III Gus Grissom and John Young launch (the first manned flight of Project Gemini) and the first Saturn I launch.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing, headquartered at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. Located on Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida, CCAFS is the primary launch head of America's Eastern Range with four launch pads currently active. The facility is south-southeast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, with the two linked by bridges and causeways. The Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip provides a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway close to the launch complexes for military airlift aircraft delivering heavy and outsized payloads to the Cape.
Several major American space exploration "firsts" were launched from CCAFS, including the first U.S. earth satellite (1958), first U.S. astronaut (1961), first U.S. astronaut in orbit (1962), first two-man U.S. spacecraft (1965), first U.S. unmanned lunar landing (1966), and first three-man U.S. spacecraft (1968). It was also the launch site for the first spacecraft to ever fly past the other planets in the Solar System (1962--1977), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971) and roam its surface (1996), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus (1978), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn (2004), and to orbit Mercury (2011)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_7
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then an Air Force major. The Atlas rocket was No. 130-D, and the Mercury spacecraft was No. 20...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_3
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, the spacecraft, nicknamed Molly Brown, performed the seventh manned US spaceflight, and the 17th manned spaceflight overall (including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers). It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Canaveral, Florida before mission control functions were shifted to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-1_(Apollo)
SA-1 was the first Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program. The rocket was launched on October 27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Objectives
The Saturn I booster was a huge increase in size and power over anything previously launched. It was three times taller, required six times more fuel and produced ten times more thrust than the Jupiter-C rocket that had launched the first American satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit in 1958.
At the time, NASA had decided to not use all-up testing, when an entire system is tested at once. The agency planned to test each rocket stage in separate launches, so for SA-1 the only live stage was the S-I first stage.
This first flight was designed to test the structure of the launch vehicle during a suborbital flight using the nose cone from a Jupiter rocket...
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Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan I, Titan II, Polaris, MInuteman, Atlas, Redstone, and Delta launches are shown. These are followed by the Mercury-Atlas 9, Gordon Cooper, Faith 7 launch (the final flight in Project Mercury), the Gemini-Titan 3 GT-3 Gemini III Gus Grissom and John Young launch (the first manned flight of Project Gemini) and the first Saturn I launch.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing, headquartered at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. Located on Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida, CCAFS is the primary launch head of America's Eastern Range with four launch pads currently active. The facility is south-southeast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, with the two linked by bridges and causeways. The Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip provides a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway close to the launch complexes for military airlift aircraft delivering heavy and outsized payloads to the Cape.
Several major American space exploration "firsts" were launched from CCAFS, including the first U.S. earth satellite (1958), first U.S. astronaut (1961), first U.S. astronaut in orbit (1962), first two-man U.S. spacecraft (1965), first U.S. unmanned lunar landing (1966), and first three-man U.S. spacecraft (1968). It was also the launch site for the first spacecraft to ever fly past the other planets in the Solar System (1962--1977), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971) and roam its surface (1996), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus (1978), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn (2004), and to orbit Mercury (2011)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_7
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then an Air Force major. The Atlas rocket was No. 130-D, and the Mercury spacecraft was No. 20...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_3
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, the spacecraft, nicknamed Molly Brown, performed the seventh manned US spaceflight, and the 17th manned spaceflight overall (including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers). It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Canaveral, Florida before mission control functions were shifted to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-1_(Apollo)
SA-1 was the first Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program. The rocket was launched on October 27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Objectives
The Saturn I booster was a huge increase in size and power over anything previously launched. It was three times taller, required six times more fuel and produced ten times more thrust than the Jupiter-C rocket that had launched the first American satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit in 1958.
At the time, NASA had decided to not use all-up testing, when an entire system is tested at once. The agency planned to test each rocket stage in separate launches, so for SA-1 the only live stage was the S-I first stage.
This first flight was designed to test the structure of the launch vehicle during a suborbital flight using the nose cone from a Jupiter rocket...
- published: 12 Oct 2012
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Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby (Friday Practice) - Test Flight Nation 2009
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 18 Oct 2009
- views: 1004
Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009.
Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009.
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Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009.
- published: 18 Oct 2009
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YF-22 Prototype Moves To Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Edwards AFB
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- Duration: 1:23
- Updated: 09 May 2010
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The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, Cal...
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The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, California, where it will be placed on permanent display.
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The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, California, where it will be placed on permanent display.
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- published: 09 May 2010
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Air Force Flight Test Projects of the Mid-1950s
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- Duration: 30:22
- Updated: 24 Mar 2013
- views: 71276
This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 wit...
This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 with dual jettisonable mainwheels for heavyweight takeoffs, B-47 and Rascal tests, a B-52 landing gear mishap, ZELMAL zero-length launches, the turboprop XF-84H and much more in this nearly 30-minute vintage film presentation. (Have you subscribed to the Airailimages YouTube channel? Thanks! ) And here's our Edwards AFB historical Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJEBtHWRTBpkM5MOMK-tUkTzj7X9W8l1
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This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 with dual jettisonable mainwheels for heavyweight takeoffs, B-47 and Rascal tests, a B-52 landing gear mishap, ZELMAL zero-length launches, the turboprop XF-84H and much more in this nearly 30-minute vintage film presentation. (Have you subscribed to the Airailimages YouTube channel? Thanks! ) And here's our Edwards AFB historical Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJEBtHWRTBpkM5MOMK-tUkTzj7X9W8l1
- published: 24 Mar 2013
- views: 71276
History of Muroc-Edwards Air Force Base "Toward the Unexplored" 1967 USAF Flight Test Center
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- Duration: 24:33
- Updated: 29 Mar 2016
- views: 780
Aircraft playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23A1203602337689
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"Traces histor...
Aircraft playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23A1203602337689
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"Traces history of Muroc Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, California, as an air proving ground and research center since the early days of aviation. documents experiments in rocketry and with X-series, V-STOL and fixed wing aircraft. points out rocket propulsion laboratory's work in missile development. Cites Edwards' prominent position in USAF space age research."
US Air Force film SFP-1385
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
from "Flights of Discovery: 50 Years at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center" http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19970004281_1996101641.pdf
The Army's initial interest in the area around Rogers Dry Lake was as a bombing and gunnery range in the years preceding World War 11, and a formal army air base was established near the town of Muroc in July 1942.
But it was the advent of jet engines and higher speed aircraft that highlighted the real strengths of the desert location. The new experimental jet aircraft, starting with the Bell XP-59A, required longer runways than most air bases had, and the classified nature of the research required a remote site for flight testing. The Muroc Army Airfield, officials realized, was the perfect choice for this kind of work.
These same reasons led the Army Air Forces, Bell Aircraft, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to choose Muroc as the test site when they undertook the challenge of designing and building a research
aircraft to break the notorious "sound barrier."
In the fall of 1946, the first NACA contingent of 13 engineers, instrument technicians, and support staff arrived at the Muroc Army Airfield to support the X-1 effort...
The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) is situated just a short hike down the flightline from the Dryden Flight Research Center at what is now Edwards Air Force Base. The flightlines of both centers display an impressive array of high performance aircraft and, to a casual observer, there might seem little difference in the work the two facilities do. Both centers employ highly skilled pilots who fly new and experimental aircraft configurations to precise test points. In both cases, data from those maneuvers is collected by various types of instrumentation and recorded or sent back to the ground, where it is processed by engineers, technicians and analysts.
The difference between flight test and flight research lies not in the mechanics of each operation, but in the questions that drive the work and how unexpected discoveries are viewed. In flight test, the objective is to compare the airplane's performance against set specifications it is supposed to meet. The idea is not to explore new realms of aeronautical knowledge, but simply to make sure that a new aircraft design or configuration performs in an acceptable manner. Unless the anomaly is better-than-predicted performance, unexpected results in a flight test program indicate problems that need to be fixed. The information gained through flight test is also directed toward a specific customer with regard to a specific product.
Flight research, on the other hand, gathers information that can be used by a much wider audience for a wide variety of applications. In addition, flight research involves much broader questions...
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Aircraft playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23A1203602337689
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"Traces history of Muroc Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, California, as an air proving ground and research center since the early days of aviation. documents experiments in rocketry and with X-series, V-STOL and fixed wing aircraft. points out rocket propulsion laboratory's work in missile development. Cites Edwards' prominent position in USAF space age research."
US Air Force film SFP-1385
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
from "Flights of Discovery: 50 Years at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center" http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19970004281_1996101641.pdf
The Army's initial interest in the area around Rogers Dry Lake was as a bombing and gunnery range in the years preceding World War 11, and a formal army air base was established near the town of Muroc in July 1942.
But it was the advent of jet engines and higher speed aircraft that highlighted the real strengths of the desert location. The new experimental jet aircraft, starting with the Bell XP-59A, required longer runways than most air bases had, and the classified nature of the research required a remote site for flight testing. The Muroc Army Airfield, officials realized, was the perfect choice for this kind of work.
These same reasons led the Army Air Forces, Bell Aircraft, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to choose Muroc as the test site when they undertook the challenge of designing and building a research
aircraft to break the notorious "sound barrier."
In the fall of 1946, the first NACA contingent of 13 engineers, instrument technicians, and support staff arrived at the Muroc Army Airfield to support the X-1 effort...
The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) is situated just a short hike down the flightline from the Dryden Flight Research Center at what is now Edwards Air Force Base. The flightlines of both centers display an impressive array of high performance aircraft and, to a casual observer, there might seem little difference in the work the two facilities do. Both centers employ highly skilled pilots who fly new and experimental aircraft configurations to precise test points. In both cases, data from those maneuvers is collected by various types of instrumentation and recorded or sent back to the ground, where it is processed by engineers, technicians and analysts.
The difference between flight test and flight research lies not in the mechanics of each operation, but in the questions that drive the work and how unexpected discoveries are viewed. In flight test, the objective is to compare the airplane's performance against set specifications it is supposed to meet. The idea is not to explore new realms of aeronautical knowledge, but simply to make sure that a new aircraft design or configuration performs in an acceptable manner. Unless the anomaly is better-than-predicted performance, unexpected results in a flight test program indicate problems that need to be fixed. The information gained through flight test is also directed toward a specific customer with regard to a specific product.
Flight research, on the other hand, gathers information that can be used by a much wider audience for a wide variety of applications. In addition, flight research involves much broader questions...
- published: 29 Mar 2016
- views: 780
Edwards AFB 2016 HD
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 11 Mar 2016
- views: 2027
Happy #FlightTestFriday from Edwards! Today we share with you a very special video created by Mr. Brad White which shows the Edwards flight test mission within ...
Happy #FlightTestFriday from Edwards! Today we share with you a very special video created by Mr. Brad White which shows the Edwards flight test mission within the U.S. Air Force Test Center. We hope you enjoy it!
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Scientific Photography at the Air Force Flight Test Center 1963 USAF; Edwards AFB
Motion Picture Production, Processes, History... playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL946E9DAD36E3CC64 more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html US Air Force Film SFP-1162. The AV quality of this film is quite low (I cleaned it up as best I could) but the information it contains is quite good. Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http...
published: 17 Oct 2016 -
Wright Field: The Test Center for the Army Air Force (1943)
Get this film & dozens more on our new “American Military Aviation Newsreels & Air Force Alerts 1941-1943” DVD http://bit.ly/1OfN9kg Wright Field was the hub of US Army Air Force testing & development during World War 2. Virtually all aircraft produced by the Allies were flown in for evaluation, including (as you'll see) Spits, Hurricanes, P-38s, P-39s, P-40s, A-20s, B-17s, the Mammoth B-19, B-24s & B-25s.& more Giant wind tunnels & in flight air flow markers tested aerodynamics. A large facility was devoted solely for developing & testing propellers. here's even a peak at an early radar array, purposely miss-identified as a 'long range sound detection device.|” Virtually every system in aircrafts were tested, including brakes, hydraulics,landing gear machine guns, & gun sights. Differ...
published: 05 May 2016 -
Edwards Air Force Base - Home Of The Air Force Flight Test Center | #Flashback Friday
Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Also, it operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry. Click to share it on Facebook: https://goo.gl/t8OIzZ Click to share it on Twitter: https://goo.gl/rwPJoK Click to share it on Google Plus: https://goo.gl/4oD6vc Edwards AFB is named in honor of Captain Glen Edwards. During World War II, the captain flew 50 missions in A-20 Havoc light attack...
published: 04 Dec 2015 -
Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Opening Day Tour, Edwards Air Force Base, July 21, 2000
The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notable attendees included X-1 pilot Chuck Yeager, X-15 pilot Pete Walker, X-15 and Space Shuttle pilot Joe Engle, NB-52B pilot Fitzhugh Fulton, NASA Photographer Tony Landis, and Aviation Artist Mike Machat.
published: 05 Dec 2013 -
Rocket Launch Blowups & Successes: Air Force Missile Test Center Footage c 1965 USAF Cape Canaveral
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_news.html Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan I, Titan II, Polaris, MInuteman, Atlas, Redstone, and Delta launches are shown. These are followed by the Mercury-Atlas 9, Gordon Cooper, Faith 7 launch (the final flight in Project Mercury), the Gemini-Titan 3 GT-3 Gemini III Gus Grissom and John Young launch (the first manned flight of Project Gemini) and the first Saturn I launch. Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, t...
published: 12 Oct 2012 -
Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby (Friday Practice) - Test Flight Nation 2009
Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009.
published: 18 Oct 2009 -
YF-22 Prototype Moves To Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Edwards AFB
Courtesy: USAF AFFTC Museum http://www.afftcmuseum.org The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, California, where it will be placed on permanent display. Click to subscribe! http://bit.ly/subAIRBOYD The most viewed aviation channel on YouTube.
published: 09 May 2010 -
Air Force Flight Test Projects of the Mid-1950s
This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 with dual jettisonable mainwheels for heavyweight takeoffs, B-47 and Rascal tests, a B-52 landing gear mishap, ZELMAL zero-length launches, the turboprop XF-84H and much more in this nearly 30-minute vintage film presentation. (Have you subscribed to the Airailimages YouTube channel? Thanks! ) And here's our Edwards AFB historical Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJEBtHWRTBpkM5MOMK-tUkTzj7X9W8l1
published: 24 Mar 2013 -
History of Muroc-Edwards Air Force Base "Toward the Unexplored" 1967 USAF Flight Test Center
Aircraft playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23A1203602337689 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html "Traces history of Muroc Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, California, as an air proving ground and research center since the early days of aviation. documents experiments in rocketry and with X-series, V-STOL and fixed wing aircraft. points out rocket propulsion laboratory's work in missile development. Cites Edwards' prominent position in USAF space age research." US Air Force film SFP-1385 Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound. Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contr...
published: 29 Mar 2016 -
Scientific Photography at the Air Force Flight Test Center 1963 USAF; Edwards AFB
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- Duration: 16:46
- Updated: 17 Oct 2016
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Motion Picture Production, Processes, History... playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL946E9DAD36E3CC64
more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html
US Air Force Film SFP-1162. The AV quality of this film is quite low (I cleaned it up as best I could) but the information it contains is quite good.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Test_Center
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) is a development and test organization of the United States Air Force. It conducts research, development, test, and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to deployment. It has test flown every aircraft in the Air Force's inventory since World War II. The center employs nearly 13,000 people and controls the second largest base in the Air Force.
On 6 July 2012, the previous Air Force Flight Test Center was redesignated the Air Force Test Center. Up until July 2012, the AFTC consists of two subordinate wings. The 95th Air Base Wing provides installation support for all units on Edwards Air Force Base. The 412th Test Wing conducts aircraft testing and evaluation. In July 2012, the redesignated 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; and Arnold Air Force Base's Arnold Engineering Development Complex also came under control of the AFTC...
Overview
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) conducts developmental and follow-on testing and evaluation of manned and unmanned aircraft and related avionics, flight-control, and weapon systems. AFTC also operates the USAF Test Pilot School, which trains test pilots, flight-test engineers, and flight-test navigators.
The Center has tested all the aircraft types in the Air Force inventory, and the center's work force—civilian, military and contractor—work together to flight test and evaluate new aircraft and upgrades to aircraft already in inventory for Air Force units, the Department of Defense, NASA and other government agencies. Upgrades to be tested here include improvements to radar, weapons-delivery and navigation systems, and a system to give tactical pilots the ability to strike ground targets from low altitudes at night and in adverse weather.
The Air Force Test Center develops, operates and maintains the Edwards Flight Test Range and Utah Test and Training Range. It also operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. The Center provides test infrastructure, overhead support for development, and operational test and evaluation support for aerospace research vehicles. AFFTC resources include the test and evaluation mission simulator, the Benefield Anechoic Chamber, Ridley Mission Control, and the Integration Facility for Avionics Systems Testing...
Air Force Flight Test Museum
The Air Force Flight Test Museum is open to military personnel with credentials to enter the base as well as general public tours offered periodically. The museum also features 40 aircraft on display at the museum or the nearby Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, California. The museum also features aircraft engines, missiles, hardware, life support equipment, technical drawings, test reports memorabilia, and models...
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Motion Picture Production, Processes, History... playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL946E9DAD36E3CC64
more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html
US Air Force Film SFP-1162. The AV quality of this film is quite low (I cleaned it up as best I could) but the information it contains is quite good.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Test_Center
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) is a development and test organization of the United States Air Force. It conducts research, development, test, and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to deployment. It has test flown every aircraft in the Air Force's inventory since World War II. The center employs nearly 13,000 people and controls the second largest base in the Air Force.
On 6 July 2012, the previous Air Force Flight Test Center was redesignated the Air Force Test Center. Up until July 2012, the AFTC consists of two subordinate wings. The 95th Air Base Wing provides installation support for all units on Edwards Air Force Base. The 412th Test Wing conducts aircraft testing and evaluation. In July 2012, the redesignated 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; and Arnold Air Force Base's Arnold Engineering Development Complex also came under control of the AFTC...
Overview
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) conducts developmental and follow-on testing and evaluation of manned and unmanned aircraft and related avionics, flight-control, and weapon systems. AFTC also operates the USAF Test Pilot School, which trains test pilots, flight-test engineers, and flight-test navigators.
The Center has tested all the aircraft types in the Air Force inventory, and the center's work force—civilian, military and contractor—work together to flight test and evaluate new aircraft and upgrades to aircraft already in inventory for Air Force units, the Department of Defense, NASA and other government agencies. Upgrades to be tested here include improvements to radar, weapons-delivery and navigation systems, and a system to give tactical pilots the ability to strike ground targets from low altitudes at night and in adverse weather.
The Air Force Test Center develops, operates and maintains the Edwards Flight Test Range and Utah Test and Training Range. It also operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. The Center provides test infrastructure, overhead support for development, and operational test and evaluation support for aerospace research vehicles. AFFTC resources include the test and evaluation mission simulator, the Benefield Anechoic Chamber, Ridley Mission Control, and the Integration Facility for Avionics Systems Testing...
Air Force Flight Test Museum
The Air Force Flight Test Museum is open to military personnel with credentials to enter the base as well as general public tours offered periodically. The museum also features 40 aircraft on display at the museum or the nearby Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, California. The museum also features aircraft engines, missiles, hardware, life support equipment, technical drawings, test reports memorabilia, and models...
- published: 17 Oct 2016
- views: 1162
Wright Field: The Test Center for the Army Air Force (1943)
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- Duration: 13:02
- Updated: 05 May 2016
- views: 3312
Get this film & dozens more on our new “American Military Aviation Newsreels & Air Force Alerts 1941-1943” DVD http://bit.ly/1OfN9kg
Wright Field was the hub of...
Get this film & dozens more on our new “American Military Aviation Newsreels & Air Force Alerts 1941-1943” DVD http://bit.ly/1OfN9kg
Wright Field was the hub of US Army Air Force testing & development during World War 2. Virtually all aircraft produced by the Allies were flown in for evaluation, including (as you'll see) Spits, Hurricanes, P-38s, P-39s, P-40s, A-20s, B-17s, the Mammoth B-19, B-24s & B-25s.& more Giant wind tunnels & in flight air flow markers tested aerodynamics. A large facility was devoted solely for developing & testing propellers. here's even a peak at an early radar array, purposely miss-identified as a 'long range sound detection device.|” Virtually every system in aircrafts were tested, including brakes, hydraulics,landing gear machine guns, & gun sights. Different munitions were developed including incendiary bombs. You'll also see the development of specialized landing lights, a high altitude testing chamber for men & equipment, parachute testing & more
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Wright Field was the hub of US Army Air Force testing & development during World War 2. Virtually all aircraft produced by the Allies were flown in for evaluation, including (as you'll see) Spits, Hurricanes, P-38s, P-39s, P-40s, A-20s, B-17s, the Mammoth B-19, B-24s & B-25s.& more Giant wind tunnels & in flight air flow markers tested aerodynamics. A large facility was devoted solely for developing & testing propellers. here's even a peak at an early radar array, purposely miss-identified as a 'long range sound detection device.|” Virtually every system in aircrafts were tested, including brakes, hydraulics,landing gear machine guns, & gun sights. Different munitions were developed including incendiary bombs. You'll also see the development of specialized landing lights, a high altitude testing chamber for men & equipment, parachute testing & more
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- published: 05 May 2016
- views: 3312
Edwards Air Force Base - Home Of The Air Force Flight Test Center | #Flashback Friday
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 04 Dec 2015
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Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellen...
Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Also, it operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Edwards AFB is named in honor of Captain Glen Edwards. During World War II, the captain flew 50 missions in A-20 Havoc light attack bombers in the North African campaign on extremely hazardous, low-level missions against German tanks, convoys, troop concentrations, bridges, airfields, and a variety of other tactical targets. The base has played a significant role in the development of every aircraft to enter the Air Force inventory since World War II. Almost every United States military aircraft since the 1950s has been at least partially tested at Edwards, and it has been the site of many aviation breakthroughs.
A major reason for the growth of Edwards AFB was the nearness of West Coast aircraft manufacturers. However, another major reason was the decision in 1947 to build a missile test facility on the base. The need for a static missile faculty to test high-thrust missile rocket engines was first envisioned in 1946 by the Power Plant Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was that decision that such a facility should be government-owned to prevent single contractor exclusive advantages on Air Force contracts for high-thrust missile rocket power plants, and it would eliminate duplication of like facilities by different manufacturers.The curriculum of Edwards AFB focused on the traditional field of performance testing and the relatively new field of stability and control, which had suddenly assumed critical importance with the dramatic increases in speed offered by the new turbojets.
Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, test flights of the North American X-15, the first landings of the Space Shuttle, and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager. Airplanes from Edwards AFB provided the flyovers at many outdoor sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, many World Series games at Dodger Stadium, and the missing man formation after the National Anthem at Super Bowls at the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena, sung by Cheryl Ladd, Neil Diamond, and Garth Brooks. The base's five-man color guard has accompanied presentations of the National Anthem by a who's who of recording artists at these and other major sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1984 Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, many NBA Finals games, two Stanley Cup Finals, two National Hockey League All-Star Games, and three NBA All-Star Games, most notably accompanying Marvin Gaye's performance at the 1983 game in Inglewood, California.
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Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern California, is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Also, it operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Edwards AFB is named in honor of Captain Glen Edwards. During World War II, the captain flew 50 missions in A-20 Havoc light attack bombers in the North African campaign on extremely hazardous, low-level missions against German tanks, convoys, troop concentrations, bridges, airfields, and a variety of other tactical targets. The base has played a significant role in the development of every aircraft to enter the Air Force inventory since World War II. Almost every United States military aircraft since the 1950s has been at least partially tested at Edwards, and it has been the site of many aviation breakthroughs.
A major reason for the growth of Edwards AFB was the nearness of West Coast aircraft manufacturers. However, another major reason was the decision in 1947 to build a missile test facility on the base. The need for a static missile faculty to test high-thrust missile rocket engines was first envisioned in 1946 by the Power Plant Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was that decision that such a facility should be government-owned to prevent single contractor exclusive advantages on Air Force contracts for high-thrust missile rocket power plants, and it would eliminate duplication of like facilities by different manufacturers.The curriculum of Edwards AFB focused on the traditional field of performance testing and the relatively new field of stability and control, which had suddenly assumed critical importance with the dramatic increases in speed offered by the new turbojets.
Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, test flights of the North American X-15, the first landings of the Space Shuttle, and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager. Airplanes from Edwards AFB provided the flyovers at many outdoor sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, many World Series games at Dodger Stadium, and the missing man formation after the National Anthem at Super Bowls at the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena, sung by Cheryl Ladd, Neil Diamond, and Garth Brooks. The base's five-man color guard has accompanied presentations of the National Anthem by a who's who of recording artists at these and other major sporting events in Los Angeles County, including the 1984 Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, many NBA Finals games, two Stanley Cup Finals, two National Hockey League All-Star Games, and three NBA All-Star Games, most notably accompanying Marvin Gaye's performance at the 1983 game in Inglewood, California.
- published: 04 Dec 2015
- views: 133
Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Opening Day Tour, Edwards Air Force Base, July 21, 2000
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- Duration: 12:34
- Updated: 05 Dec 2013
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The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notab...
The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notable attendees included X-1 pilot Chuck Yeager, X-15 pilot Pete Walker, X-15 and Space Shuttle pilot Joe Engle, NB-52B pilot Fitzhugh Fulton, NASA Photographer Tony Landis, and Aviation Artist Mike Machat.
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The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base opened on July 21, 2000. Take a walking tour of the aircraft and displays at the museum. Notable attendees included X-1 pilot Chuck Yeager, X-15 pilot Pete Walker, X-15 and Space Shuttle pilot Joe Engle, NB-52B pilot Fitzhugh Fulton, NASA Photographer Tony Landis, and Aviation Artist Mike Machat.
- published: 05 Dec 2013
- views: 1307
Rocket Launch Blowups & Successes: Air Force Missile Test Center Footage c 1965 USAF Cape Canaveral
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- Duration: 33:15
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
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Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan...
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Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan I, Titan II, Polaris, MInuteman, Atlas, Redstone, and Delta launches are shown. These are followed by the Mercury-Atlas 9, Gordon Cooper, Faith 7 launch (the final flight in Project Mercury), the Gemini-Titan 3 GT-3 Gemini III Gus Grissom and John Young launch (the first manned flight of Project Gemini) and the first Saturn I launch.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing, headquartered at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. Located on Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida, CCAFS is the primary launch head of America's Eastern Range with four launch pads currently active. The facility is south-southeast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, with the two linked by bridges and causeways. The Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip provides a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway close to the launch complexes for military airlift aircraft delivering heavy and outsized payloads to the Cape.
Several major American space exploration "firsts" were launched from CCAFS, including the first U.S. earth satellite (1958), first U.S. astronaut (1961), first U.S. astronaut in orbit (1962), first two-man U.S. spacecraft (1965), first U.S. unmanned lunar landing (1966), and first three-man U.S. spacecraft (1968). It was also the launch site for the first spacecraft to ever fly past the other planets in the Solar System (1962--1977), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971) and roam its surface (1996), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus (1978), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn (2004), and to orbit Mercury (2011)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_7
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then an Air Force major. The Atlas rocket was No. 130-D, and the Mercury spacecraft was No. 20...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_3
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, the spacecraft, nicknamed Molly Brown, performed the seventh manned US spaceflight, and the 17th manned spaceflight overall (including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers). It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Canaveral, Florida before mission control functions were shifted to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-1_(Apollo)
SA-1 was the first Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program. The rocket was launched on October 27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Objectives
The Saturn I booster was a huge increase in size and power over anything previously launched. It was three times taller, required six times more fuel and produced ten times more thrust than the Jupiter-C rocket that had launched the first American satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit in 1958.
At the time, NASA had decided to not use all-up testing, when an entire system is tested at once. The agency planned to test each rocket stage in separate launches, so for SA-1 the only live stage was the S-I first stage.
This first flight was designed to test the structure of the launch vehicle during a suborbital flight using the nose cone from a Jupiter rocket...
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Silent footage of missile and satellite launch vehicle failures and successes. Jupiter, Thor, Titan I, Titan II, Polaris, MInuteman, Atlas, Redstone, and Delta launches are shown. These are followed by the Mercury-Atlas 9, Gordon Cooper, Faith 7 launch (the final flight in Project Mercury), the Gemini-Titan 3 GT-3 Gemini III Gus Grissom and John Young launch (the first manned flight of Project Gemini) and the first Saturn I launch.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing, headquartered at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. Located on Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida, CCAFS is the primary launch head of America's Eastern Range with four launch pads currently active. The facility is south-southeast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, with the two linked by bridges and causeways. The Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip provides a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway close to the launch complexes for military airlift aircraft delivering heavy and outsized payloads to the Cape.
Several major American space exploration "firsts" were launched from CCAFS, including the first U.S. earth satellite (1958), first U.S. astronaut (1961), first U.S. astronaut in orbit (1962), first two-man U.S. spacecraft (1965), first U.S. unmanned lunar landing (1966), and first three-man U.S. spacecraft (1968). It was also the launch site for the first spacecraft to ever fly past the other planets in the Solar System (1962--1977), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971) and roam its surface (1996), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus (1978), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn (2004), and to orbit Mercury (2011)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_7
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then an Air Force major. The Atlas rocket was No. 130-D, and the Mercury spacecraft was No. 20...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_3
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, the spacecraft, nicknamed Molly Brown, performed the seventh manned US spaceflight, and the 17th manned spaceflight overall (including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers). It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Canaveral, Florida before mission control functions were shifted to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-1_(Apollo)
SA-1 was the first Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program. The rocket was launched on October 27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Objectives
The Saturn I booster was a huge increase in size and power over anything previously launched. It was three times taller, required six times more fuel and produced ten times more thrust than the Jupiter-C rocket that had launched the first American satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit in 1958.
At the time, NASA had decided to not use all-up testing, when an entire system is tested at once. The agency planned to test each rocket stage in separate launches, so for SA-1 the only live stage was the S-I first stage.
This first flight was designed to test the structure of the launch vehicle during a suborbital flight using the nose cone from a Jupiter rocket...
- published: 12 Oct 2012
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Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby (Friday Practice) - Test Flight Nation 2009
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 18 Oct 2009
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Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009.
Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009.
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Air Force Flight Test Center Flyby: F-22, F-16, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 practice at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Nation 2009.
- published: 18 Oct 2009
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YF-22 Prototype Moves To Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Edwards AFB
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- Duration: 1:23
- Updated: 09 May 2010
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The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, Cal...
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The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, California, where it will be placed on permanent display.
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The YF-22 Prototype mores to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum At Edwards Air Force Base, California, where it will be placed on permanent display.
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- published: 09 May 2010
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Air Force Flight Test Projects of the Mid-1950s
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- Duration: 30:22
- Updated: 24 Mar 2013
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This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 wit...
This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 with dual jettisonable mainwheels for heavyweight takeoffs, B-47 and Rascal tests, a B-52 landing gear mishap, ZELMAL zero-length launches, the turboprop XF-84H and much more in this nearly 30-minute vintage film presentation. (Have you subscribed to the Airailimages YouTube channel? Thanks! ) And here's our Edwards AFB historical Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJEBtHWRTBpkM5MOMK-tUkTzj7X9W8l1
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This narrated 1956 briefing highlights aircraft under test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during hectic Cold War days. It includes rare views of an F-84 with dual jettisonable mainwheels for heavyweight takeoffs, B-47 and Rascal tests, a B-52 landing gear mishap, ZELMAL zero-length launches, the turboprop XF-84H and much more in this nearly 30-minute vintage film presentation. (Have you subscribed to the Airailimages YouTube channel? Thanks! ) And here's our Edwards AFB historical Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJEBtHWRTBpkM5MOMK-tUkTzj7X9W8l1
- published: 24 Mar 2013
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History of Muroc-Edwards Air Force Base "Toward the Unexplored" 1967 USAF Flight Test Center
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- Duration: 24:33
- Updated: 29 Mar 2016
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"Traces histor...
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"Traces history of Muroc Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, California, as an air proving ground and research center since the early days of aviation. documents experiments in rocketry and with X-series, V-STOL and fixed wing aircraft. points out rocket propulsion laboratory's work in missile development. Cites Edwards' prominent position in USAF space age research."
US Air Force film SFP-1385
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
from "Flights of Discovery: 50 Years at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center" http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19970004281_1996101641.pdf
The Army's initial interest in the area around Rogers Dry Lake was as a bombing and gunnery range in the years preceding World War 11, and a formal army air base was established near the town of Muroc in July 1942.
But it was the advent of jet engines and higher speed aircraft that highlighted the real strengths of the desert location. The new experimental jet aircraft, starting with the Bell XP-59A, required longer runways than most air bases had, and the classified nature of the research required a remote site for flight testing. The Muroc Army Airfield, officials realized, was the perfect choice for this kind of work.
These same reasons led the Army Air Forces, Bell Aircraft, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to choose Muroc as the test site when they undertook the challenge of designing and building a research
aircraft to break the notorious "sound barrier."
In the fall of 1946, the first NACA contingent of 13 engineers, instrument technicians, and support staff arrived at the Muroc Army Airfield to support the X-1 effort...
The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) is situated just a short hike down the flightline from the Dryden Flight Research Center at what is now Edwards Air Force Base. The flightlines of both centers display an impressive array of high performance aircraft and, to a casual observer, there might seem little difference in the work the two facilities do. Both centers employ highly skilled pilots who fly new and experimental aircraft configurations to precise test points. In both cases, data from those maneuvers is collected by various types of instrumentation and recorded or sent back to the ground, where it is processed by engineers, technicians and analysts.
The difference between flight test and flight research lies not in the mechanics of each operation, but in the questions that drive the work and how unexpected discoveries are viewed. In flight test, the objective is to compare the airplane's performance against set specifications it is supposed to meet. The idea is not to explore new realms of aeronautical knowledge, but simply to make sure that a new aircraft design or configuration performs in an acceptable manner. Unless the anomaly is better-than-predicted performance, unexpected results in a flight test program indicate problems that need to be fixed. The information gained through flight test is also directed toward a specific customer with regard to a specific product.
Flight research, on the other hand, gathers information that can be used by a much wider audience for a wide variety of applications. In addition, flight research involves much broader questions...
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Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
from "Flights of Discovery: 50 Years at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center" http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19970004281_1996101641.pdf
The Army's initial interest in the area around Rogers Dry Lake was as a bombing and gunnery range in the years preceding World War 11, and a formal army air base was established near the town of Muroc in July 1942.
But it was the advent of jet engines and higher speed aircraft that highlighted the real strengths of the desert location. The new experimental jet aircraft, starting with the Bell XP-59A, required longer runways than most air bases had, and the classified nature of the research required a remote site for flight testing. The Muroc Army Airfield, officials realized, was the perfect choice for this kind of work.
These same reasons led the Army Air Forces, Bell Aircraft, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to choose Muroc as the test site when they undertook the challenge of designing and building a research
aircraft to break the notorious "sound barrier."
In the fall of 1946, the first NACA contingent of 13 engineers, instrument technicians, and support staff arrived at the Muroc Army Airfield to support the X-1 effort...
The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) is situated just a short hike down the flightline from the Dryden Flight Research Center at what is now Edwards Air Force Base. The flightlines of both centers display an impressive array of high performance aircraft and, to a casual observer, there might seem little difference in the work the two facilities do. Both centers employ highly skilled pilots who fly new and experimental aircraft configurations to precise test points. In both cases, data from those maneuvers is collected by various types of instrumentation and recorded or sent back to the ground, where it is processed by engineers, technicians and analysts.
The difference between flight test and flight research lies not in the mechanics of each operation, but in the questions that drive the work and how unexpected discoveries are viewed. In flight test, the objective is to compare the airplane's performance against set specifications it is supposed to meet. The idea is not to explore new realms of aeronautical knowledge, but simply to make sure that a new aircraft design or configuration performs in an acceptable manner. Unless the anomaly is better-than-predicted performance, unexpected results in a flight test program indicate problems that need to be fixed. The information gained through flight test is also directed toward a specific customer with regard to a specific product.
Flight research, on the other hand, gathers information that can be used by a much wider audience for a wide variety of applications. In addition, flight research involves much broader questions...
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Edwards AFB 2016 HD
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 11 Mar 2016
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Happy #FlightTestFriday from Edwards! Today we share with you a very special video created by Mr. Brad White which shows the Edwards flight test mission within ...
Happy #FlightTestFriday from Edwards! Today we share with you a very special video created by Mr. Brad White which shows the Edwards flight test mission within the U.S. Air Force Test Center. We hope you enjoy it!
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XB-70 Valkyrie
North American XB-70 long range high speed bomber program presented by Joe Orr, Director of the History Office at the Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org
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From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms - Edwards Air Force Base Documentary
From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms - Edwards Air Force Base Documentary Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond. It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry. More Documentary Films:http://http://thetrendstoday.com/
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The Edwards Airforce Base | Where It All Happened - NatGeo TV
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond. It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base
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The Edwards Air Force Base: Architects of American Air Supremacy - Cine
The Edwards Air Force Base: Architects of American Air Supremacy - Cine Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond. It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Subscribe our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdfgO59tura3nTwWoFgJBiA
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The Infamous Military Base: Edward's Air Force Base | Documentary FIlms
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. Read More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base Click here to Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFZH9aKMeqQFtou8rLdwtsA
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Edwards Airforce Base | Military Documentary | Modern Marvels
Edwards Airforce Base | Military Documentary | Modern Marvels Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond. It often referred to as Edwards, California or just Edwards. It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and developmental flight test and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Neil Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry. For more full screen document...
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The Edwards Air Force Base - Documentary History Film
US Best Air Force Installation | The Edwards Air Force Base | Documentary History Film. Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond. It often referred to as Edwards, California or just Edwards. It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and developmental flight test and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Neil Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry. So...
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The McConnell Story
https://www.facebook.com/LotnictwoiLudzie/ The McConnell Story is a 1955 dramatization of the life and career of U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph C. McConnell (1922–1954), who served as a navigator in World War II before becoming the top American ace during the Korean War. He was killed while serving as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of California. The Warner Brothers production, filmed in CinemaScope and Warner Color, starred Alan Ladd as McConnell and June Allyson as his wife. Longtime Warners staff composer Max Steiner wrote the musical score for the film. The movie was announced in May 1954, with Alan Ladd and June Allyson attached from the beginning. It was Alan Ladd's second consecutive film for Warner Bros following Drum Beat. However unlike that it was made ...
published: 12 Mar 2016 -
The History of Edwards Air force Base - Television
The History of Edwards Air force Base - Television Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond. It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry. Read More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base
published: 11 Nov 2015
Rocket & Missile Testing: Air Force Missile Test Center Footage
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Various shots of early rocket tests and some manned missions before there was a NASA.
Producer: Air Force Missle Test Center
Various shots of early rocket tests and some manned missions before there was a NASA.
Producer: Air Force Missle Test Center
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XB-70 Valkyrie
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North American XB-70 long range high speed bomber program presented by Joe Orr, Director of the History Office at the Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB. Pro...
North American XB-70 long range high speed bomber program presented by Joe Orr, Director of the History Office at the Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org
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North American XB-70 long range high speed bomber program presented by Joe Orr, Director of the History Office at the Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org
- published: 04 Feb 2017
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From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms - Edwards Air Force Base Documentary
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- Duration: 45:45
- Updated: 12 Aug 2015
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From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms - Edwards Air Force Base Documentary
Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, l...
From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms - Edwards Air Force Base Documentary
Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond.
It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms - Edwards Air Force Base Documentary
Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond.
It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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The Edwards Airforce Base | Where It All Happened - NatGeo TV
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- Duration: 45:04
- Updated: 13 Aug 2015
- views: 3537
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 mi...
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond.
It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond.
It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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The Edwards Air Force Base: Architects of American Air Supremacy - Cine
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- Duration: 44:57
- Updated: 06 Nov 2015
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The Edwards Air Force Base: Architects of American Air Supremacy - Cine
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States A...
The Edwards Air Force Base: Architects of American Air Supremacy - Cine
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond.
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The Edwards Air Force Base: Architects of American Air Supremacy - Cine
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond.
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The Infamous Military Base: Edward's Air Force Base | Documentary FIlms
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Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and suppo...
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat.
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Edwards Airforce Base | Military Documentary | Modern Marvels
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Edwards Airforce Base | Military Documentary | Modern Marvels
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force i...
Edwards Airforce Base | Military Documentary | Modern Marvels
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond. It often referred to as Edwards, California or just Edwards.
It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and developmental flight test and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Neil Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Edwards Airforce Base | Military Documentary | Modern Marvels
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond. It often referred to as Edwards, California or just Edwards.
It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and developmental flight test and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Neil Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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The Edwards Air Force Base - Documentary History Film
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- Updated: 28 Jan 2015
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US Best Air Force Installation | The Edwards Air Force Base | Documentary History Film.
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a...
US Best Air Force Installation | The Edwards Air Force Base | Documentary History Film.
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond. It often referred to as Edwards, California or just Edwards.
It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and developmental flight test and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Neil Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond. It often referred to as Edwards, California or just Edwards.
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The McConnell Story
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The McConnell Story is a 1955 dramatization of the life and career of U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph C. McConnell (1922–...
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The McConnell Story is a 1955 dramatization of the life and career of U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph C. McConnell (1922–1954), who served as a navigator in World War II before becoming the top American ace during the Korean War. He was killed while serving as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of California. The Warner Brothers production, filmed in CinemaScope and Warner Color, starred Alan Ladd as McConnell and June Allyson as his wife. Longtime Warners staff composer Max Steiner wrote the musical score for the film.
The movie was announced in May 1954, with Alan Ladd and June Allyson attached from the beginning. It was Alan Ladd's second consecutive film for Warner Bros following Drum Beat. However unlike that it was made for Warner Bros, not Ladd's own production company.
A number of months after the film was announced, McConnell died in a crash. This required the script to be rewritten.
For a sequence depicting the rescue of a downed B-29 Superfortress crew that McConnell was trying to protect, a Sikorsky H-19 of the 48th Air Rescue Squadron, Eglin AFB, Florida, was deployed to Alexandria AFB, Louisiana, for seven days in February 1955. Captain E. R. Thone and Airman First Class Ronald K. Opitz, of the 48th ARS, were the crew for the helicopter, TDY to shoot the rescue sequence.
Colonel William L. Orris, Commander Detachment No. 1, Air Force Operational Test Center at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico was the technical advisor for the film.
Shown on American Movie Classics, host Bob Dorian said that Ladd, who hated flying, filmed his scenes in mockups in front of blue screens. He also noted that Ladd and Allyson fell in love during filming; Ladd reportedly called Allyson's husband, actor/director Dick Powell, and told him, "I'm in love with your wife," to which Powell replied, "Everyone is in love with my wife."
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The McConnell Story is a 1955 dramatization of the life and career of U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph C. McConnell (1922–1954), who served as a navigator in World War II before becoming the top American ace during the Korean War. He was killed while serving as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of California. The Warner Brothers production, filmed in CinemaScope and Warner Color, starred Alan Ladd as McConnell and June Allyson as his wife. Longtime Warners staff composer Max Steiner wrote the musical score for the film.
The movie was announced in May 1954, with Alan Ladd and June Allyson attached from the beginning. It was Alan Ladd's second consecutive film for Warner Bros following Drum Beat. However unlike that it was made for Warner Bros, not Ladd's own production company.
A number of months after the film was announced, McConnell died in a crash. This required the script to be rewritten.
For a sequence depicting the rescue of a downed B-29 Superfortress crew that McConnell was trying to protect, a Sikorsky H-19 of the 48th Air Rescue Squadron, Eglin AFB, Florida, was deployed to Alexandria AFB, Louisiana, for seven days in February 1955. Captain E. R. Thone and Airman First Class Ronald K. Opitz, of the 48th ARS, were the crew for the helicopter, TDY to shoot the rescue sequence.
Colonel William L. Orris, Commander Detachment No. 1, Air Force Operational Test Center at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico was the technical advisor for the film.
Shown on American Movie Classics, host Bob Dorian said that Ladd, who hated flying, filmed his scenes in mockups in front of blue screens. He also noted that Ladd and Allyson fell in love during filming; Ladd reportedly called Allyson's husband, actor/director Dick Powell, and told him, "I'm in love with your wife," to which Powell replied, "Everyone is in love with my wife."
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Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond.
It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in southern California, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond.
It is the home of the Air Force Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
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Air Force, Rumour Said Fire
Air Force
Everyone's leaving
The house is in mess
You and your magic friend
Chose to confront me folding the air into a dark affair
We need an air force
To gather the pieces, the love and the fear
I made your skin crawl on this night
Oh, my love
Lock up the doors
There's no easing the pain
Losing a life of games
Brought to impostures and comfort in death
You walk alone, my friend
We need an air force
To gather the pieces, the love and the fear
I made your skin crawl on this night
Oh, my love
Take off these sad clothes I need you to feel my despair Breaking the atmosphere
All of your talk of the dead will not stop
Breathe me like toxic love
We need an air force
To empty the streets with their naked machines
You made my skin crawl on this night
Oh, my love
We won't be air borne
Caught with the dust and the salt on the floor
We need an air force in this life
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US officials told NBC News on Thursday that the US Air Force's special sniffer plane, known as a WC-135W Constant Phoenix, is capable of detecting evidence of a nuclear explosion. The Air Force said in a statement that the aircraft "has been deployed on a routine mission to Northeast Asia ... North Korea is capable of conducting a nuclear test with little or no warning, according to two American intelligence officials....
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The strike accurately targeted the terrorists and locals are very happy about it
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