HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE / JOHN PAUL STAPP USAF FILM 72092
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"Holloman -- Frontier of the Future" tells the story of the Air Force Missile Development Center at Holloman, New Mexico. The Air Force Missile Development Center and its predecessors were Cold War units that conducted and supported numerous missile tests using facilities at Holloman. The film features rare footage of the Holloman / White Sands test range, home to various test and research programs by defense contractors. Falcon Missiles are being shown tested aboard an F-102 fighter / interceptor, using a remotely-operated B-17 target drone. A Matador surface to surface missile is also shown being tested. Dr. John Paul Stapp's historic rocket sled tests, are also seen, with Dr. Stapp speaking to the camera about the Sonic Wind high speed test. High altitude tests are shown in a chamber that can replicate conditions at high altitudes, and Project Manhigh is shown with a test subject soaring to the threshold of space -- 18 miles high. Manhigh was a pre-Space Age military project that took men in balloons to the middle layers of the stratosphere. The Aerobee rocket is also shown being tested.
Incidentally, the work at Holloman and in particular by Dr. John Paul Stapp helped inspire the film "On the Threshold of Space" made in 1956. A great history of the research era depicted in this film is the book "The Pre-Astronauts" by author Craig Ryan; and those interested in learning about Dr. John Paul Stapp and how he may have helped discover what we now know as "Murphy's Law", read author Nick Spark's book "A History of Murphy's Law" available on Amazon.com
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I was born at Holloman. My dad was part of the Matador project. We were transferred to Patrick in FL for further training. They then shipped out to Bitburg AFB Germany as the 1st Pilotless Bomber Squadron. Then we went to Orlando AFB, 4504th Missile Training Wing, where my dad was an instructor and was later made the NCOIC of the Product Improvement section. I had never seen the Matador launched before seeing this video. Thanks for publishing these.
At 6:10 to the right in brown jacket is my departed father in law.Gerald John Klecker. He was a Captain in the A F assigned to Holloman and was Op Officer during the high speed sled runs .He designed a guidance missile system
Thrilled that you got to see your father again. Did he work with Col. Stapp?
I grew up there. Missiles are daily . Weird aircraft common. Very unusual aircraft with fascinating abilities were fairly common. Extremely unusual aircraft happened if you paid attention. I used to play ' buck rogers' in a MATADOR drone that was on display at the Alamogordo chamber of commerce. Until we were caught. We thought that this stuff was common until i left home. Very unusual and interesting childhood . Rockets, aliens, cowboys & Apaches, nuclear bombs, killer desert, and glorius big wild mountains.
That is just insane! Thank you for a great video of history... Periscope delivers again! Simply the best
What a fascinating film!
Incredible science and engineering. I can't imagine what we have today. So cool.
My father was an AP on Holloman 1964_65_66, what I want to see is the radar directed optical video before, during and after tests. Cuz we are not alone
1954 draco treaty was signed here by Eisenhower
Eisenhower is a snake
At 19:26 is Captain (later Colonel) Joseph W. Kittenger taking part in Project Manhigh. He is the holder of several records and instrumental in early high altitude research.
I was trying to remember his name while the video was playing! Joe Kittinger held the world record for the highest parachute jump for many years. He jumped out of one of those Manhigh gondolas at 102,000 feet, and reached a peak speed of 700+ mph in free fall, breaking the sound barrier in the process. Some Internet billionaire broke Kittinger's record a few years ago, but Kittinger wasn't after records. He was doing research in parachute design to save pilots that had to do supersonic ejections.
This is a great video. Thanks
Just hate lies that's what makes me crabby you guys were supposed to represent truth
Can't trust any of you. It would make anybody crabby then the frustration of feeling like you're part of something now everybody jump ship and abandon you cuz you don't serve their purpose
In the late 1950's I, as a kid, went to Holloman and White Sands Missile range on July 4th and such. I recall the rocket sled, they would shoot some guy down the tracks..... They fired missiles and sent F 102-104's after them, shot them down. One got away, maybe in 1961 but they shot it down near Socorro as I recall. In Feb 2002 I recorded Many B1 bombers doing touch and goes at Holloman. I pulled over on the highway and recorded a dozen or so jets. But I lost the video.
A good story of Stapp's life and work is in the book "Sonic Wind" by Craig Ryan. It is a good read and well worth your time. It includes all of the Air Force years plus a lot of his car safety work.
Anyone know where the Mach 8.5 regular speed video went to? It's the video that had a Helicopter at 7000' past the end of the Rocket Sled water pit that stops the sled? Amazing zero to Mach 8.5 in about 3 seconds with multitudes of sonic booms, epic video and will make you think how in the hell can that happen!Read more Show less Reply1
Wasn't Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico the location where President Eisenhower had a meeting with beings from a different solar system?
So they say
Can you please upload the footage of the landing?
At 18:26 and a few seconds after we hear the term "man" used the way it was spoken back in those days. I believe Neil Armstrong was among those who commonly used the term "man" as a sometimes substitute for "mankind" thus confusing him when he placed his foot on the moon for the first time. His words were probably not an accident, so much as a habit in the way "man" and "mankind" were sometimes interchanged IMHO.
7:35 I don't understand the dual stick control in the Dart...
We came back to the Stone Age. Thank you.
So many cine cameras and no movie of the famous ufo landing or close encounter of the third kind 🙄🤔
i wonder what camera was used to record that ufo the astronaut seen land and then takeoff
Gordo Cooper.
ME TOO!
It's was the weather balloon.
8mm
Thats no balloon, That's a UFO.
this related to the book ,ufos past present future by emenegger?
It's a weather balloon case close cough cough Zeta Reiculian scout ship
Brave souls.. human Guinea Pigs!
Too bad they had sacrifice a B17 for weapons research. Back then though they didnt know that those would be coveted today.
How about that person trapped in the vortex
They splattered the colonel on the sled, and thereafter used monkeys and bears, oh yes, they did.
Btw, my dad had to help wrangle the bears and monkeys cuz every once in a while some would get the keys
They were also used for tests on a previously constructed track, called The Daisy Track. One test, using a bear, the sled was brought to an abrupt stop and the bear's head popped off.
Slowing down as fast as Stapp used to, has to have brusised up his soft innard body parts.
Fortunately, the video didn't show his eyes after the run. His retinas were detached, and the blood vessels had broken, so they would have been red where his whites should have been. Stapp spent weeks in the hospital after that.
that B-17 / Falcon missile test was pretty bad...1 missile hit the tail the other missile was way off ...that missile is the forerunner of cruise missiles....
yeah, them prolly died shortly after of crushed brains/ hearts and other fragile organs.
No UFO video. Useless documentary.
nixon backtracked from revealing anything due to national security concerns ofc. don't think this is emenegger's watered-down ufo docu for the public.
Wow. Fires 3 falcons at the drone, 1 clips the tail, 2 run wide. Not much improvement. Patriot anyone? Some 30 yrs on, still inaccurate as hell. Syria-- we bomb an airstrip, didn't hit shit, especially the airstrip, in "The Push Button Age"???
Why do you think they call them "missiles"? They sure don't call them "hittles".
@andyharman3022 that's hilarious
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