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Video Courtesy Dryden Flight Research Center.
1947

This is a rare color 30-second clip is almost identical to the next black and white clip, but in color and inserted shots of yeager and crew.

(Approx 1.2 Mb)

1947

This roughly 30-second video clip shows the X-1 launched from
a B-29, ignition of the XLR-11 rocket engine and the
succeeding flight, including a roll.

At one point, the video shows observers of the flight from the ground.

(Approx 2.8 Mb)

  1949

The following movie runs about 20 seconds, and shows several air-to-air views of X-1 Number 2 and its modified B-50 mothership. It begins with different angles of the X-1 in-flight while mated to the B-50's bomb bay, and ends showing the air-launch. The X-1 drops below the B-50, then accelerates away as the rockets ignite.

(Approx 1.2 Mb)

1947

This roughly 30-second video clip shows the X-1 landing on Rogers Dry Lakebed followed by the safety chase aircraft.

(Approx 2.8 Mb)


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