" TOUGH SLEDDING " NORTHROP CORPORATION ROCKET SLED GAG FILM 30554a
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2024
- One of the most infamous "gag" films ever produced under the auspices of the Department of Defense, "Tough Sledding" was apparently created by the staff at Northrop Corporation in the late 1950s. No, we don't know what they were smoking! In this era Northrop was heavily engaged in conducting human factors research, and developing escape systems including ejection seats and parachutes for use in aircraft and spacecraft. This included the work of Dr. John Paul Stapp, who famously rode rocket sleds at Edwards AFB where he became known as the "Fastest Man on Earth". (Stapp also helped name "Murphy's Law" -- see "A History of Murphy's Law" on Amazon for more details).
Made by "Lower Rank Productions", "Tough Sledding" is a full color blast into irony, the kind of film that could only have been made in America. It's just surprising it emerged from the very conservative 1950s, where such artistic creations were often frowned upon.
Incidentally, the rocket sled shown is likely the one used for the T-38 Talon, which Northrop produced beginning in 1961. Apparently the system required a great deal of work to perfect...as this five minute wonder aptly demonstrates!
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"Except for the seat and parachute malfunctions the firing was a complete success."
Having completed a 21-year career in the USAF--I can confirm this film is histerically accurate.
I like to ask after your 21 year career in the USAF , Did you get a job as a crash test dummy and did you take the CTD tests ? After wards did you join the CTD Union by any chance .
Maybe they should have used Vince and Larry of seat belt PSA fame.
When the 50s had better jokes than today
People had a sense of humor then!!!
That’s back when people weren’t offended by everything
Back when you were top of the world! If you were male, and white, and Christian…
The fifties were great = I could drive drunk, beat my wife, and civil rights didn’t exist yet.
Yep, it’s probably racist, misogyny, transphobic or some else now!!
Plenty of great Comedy out there.
Funny, the ones who always say "you can't joke about anything these days" say it with such conviction, even though it is Objectively false, you can say anything you want, whether or not there are consequences is another story.
I like the observed change in the test engineer’s smoking style and the confidence level change observed as the tests progressed.
I thought he'd hit the bottle...
That's why those hotshot test pilots earned the big bucks.
Those shaky hands were great!😄
yeah, agreed. really subtle. silent film mime shit.
Col Stapp actually became the "Fastest Man" at Holloman AFB. When I was 10 years old (1975), while home from school for summer break, I saw a rerun an old Groutcho Marx TV show that Col Stapp was a guest on. I looked him up in the phonebook and called him to tell him "You're on TV right now!" He was super nice, and I think was amused that some kid would call him about such an important thing!
Groucho Marx reincarnated as a halloween costume and then when that died he got reincarnated as an emoji 🥸
The pilot getting pushed back into the test rig was comical. Happy April Fools Day!
All those tests took place on holidays (not the April 1st one): July 4th, December 25th. I'm surprised there wasn't a test on February 31st.
The guy trying to climb back OUT of the cockpit TWICE in the test series!! "Uh, NOPE! I AIN'T GOIN' THROUGH THIS AGAIN!! Get someone else to eat sand!"
"Sorry Steve, but you are a constant variable."
I expected to see him trying to drink a shot of something, but be shaking so much he spilled most of it.
This is actually an Anti-Smoking PSA disguised as rocket sled tests.
Well done!
I was shown this film when I was in Air Force tech school for aircrew egress systems maintenance a long time ago. I was hilarious back then too. Thanks for a blast from my past.
*IT*, not I . Probably.
@@2degucitas
Guess you never heard of "typo"! Probobly not
Great film for today april fools day . The 66th anniversary of the first ejection seat test in the film . LOL
It's great to see dead pan comedy from the fifties. Thank you for preserving this.
That test pilot was Harry Osborne, father of Super Dave Osborne (who was born before his father started his test pilot career).
Once the money from his father's life insurance policy ran out, Super Dave started working for the Smothers Brothers.
Ah, Super Dave Osborne…..nobody did it better…..
Wait, I’m here on RUclips….
Guess where I’m going next! 🤣
I believe Super Dave was Bob Einstein. Super Dave Osborne is a stage name
Hahaha look at those hands shake after the 2nd attempt! This is some great stuff. I didn't know videos like this even existed for such serious subject matter.
Yeah lol, imagine Boeing coming out with something like this now! This shows that Northrop had confidence in what they were doing
Woooo! Good one. No chance of them doing that now, right?@@kenmore01
One of the first videos that I saw when I went to work for Northrop back in 1985.
It's great to watch the old films. Thank you for making it possible.
I think the pilots problem was premature ejecting...
Ejectulation?
I love the guy at 3:08 taking those last few pulls on his cigarette before he climbs in. :)
I wonder if that pilot is Super Dave Osborn's Grand Pa?
His father, according to another comment.
I don't blame the guy for trying to back out! Then he sucker punches Santa! My mom worked at Northrup after being let go from Lockheed in the early 1990s. Then they let her go just before the Northridge earthquake of 1994, which was fortunate because the freeway she used to get to work collapsed. If she had been on her way to work on that day, Jan. 17,1994, she likely would've been on it when it collapsed. It took her a few months afterwards to realize that.
OMG this caught me totally off guard. When I saw the guy miss the gong in the beginning I knew what it was.
I loved how the gong was a garbage can lid.
Jack Northrop had a sense of humor.
And that ladies and gentleman, is the first known video of Super Dave Sr!!
"The results of test no. 2 were very similar to test no. 1"🤣
They really should have used a real crash test dummy 🤔
But I have to admire the dedication to Duty that the Live test dummy has preformed his job ✝️🇺🇸🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Thank you for your service Sir 😀
The guy getting up like he only ditched his Schwinn 😂 Not a scratch!
Why haven't I seen these films a long time ago?! Hilarious.
Total GOLD!!! This video was funny from the first time they showed a gong made from a garbage can lid. Thanks for the laughs!!!
I saw this on a VCR in the mid-80s when I worked in the Aeronautical Systems Division, Crew Station and Escape Branch (ASD/ENE) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. At the time, I thought it was hysterical! I seem to recall one test where the seat separated perfectly and the parachute deployed and the seat went right through the center of the parachute! I don't know if they edited that test out of the film or if it was on another film. I'm glad this film is being preserved! ICYMI: All the test dates are before the Monday Holiday scheme we use today, e.g., October 12 was always Columbus Day back then.
Call sign: "Sandy"
I guess they often had job vacancies for test pilots at Northrop.... :)
Very enjoyable. Two thumbs up! Thanks for posting this today. 😂
There is a film from the 80's of a dealload shot at Lakehurst when the jet car propelled deadload didn't catch the arresting cable and tore down a lot of Jersey pines.
When the dust settled a pilot walks out and throws down his helmet.
I tried to get the guy from HRO to advertise a Deadload Pilot opening on April 1st but he said too many would apply.
Santa gives him a new helmet and he punches him in the stomach!
What a classic. Who says engineers have no sense of humour.
just fantastic.
April fools, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Christmas Day.
They were tough back then. Now we use crash test Dummies.
They did back then too! 😂
The slide rule guys had one hell of a witty sense of humor.
Oboy this is gonna be a good one, the intro alone is pure gold 😂
First saw this movie (full length!!) in the old Para Loft at Mcdonnell - Douglas A/c in LGB!!!!! I was working on the ACES II Ejection Program at the time!!! 1977-1980!!!!!!! Got a VHS video copy in my archives along with other "Good Stuff!!!!! " skybill
Building 89. I knew it well. I remember the pilot letters thanking you guys for building them a life saving ride.
Someone on the production team was a fan of British films- the gong and the “Lower Rank” name.
Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit sniffing airplane glue
What in the wide ,wide world.of sports is going on here ??😁
"With the hesitant co-operation of Norair" 🤣
Hey ! I know that guy. He was the dad of a school chum of mine. It’s been years since I’ve seen Dave Osborne. I used to get free passes to all his Super Dave events. 😉
This is a curious piece of history. Brilliant!
"Colonel Coyote, reporting for duty, sir."
"That's Coyoue, Wile E., with multiple doctorates?"
WONDERFUL!!! THANK YOU!!
Some very accurate research and development
So brilliant!
Always keeping it professional. Nicotine only, no alcohol (that we saw, anyway....)
Nicotine?
Super Dave...the early years!
omg this is like.... Buster Keaton doing Super Dave Osborne..... this is really good satire like.... at it's own expense........
The pilot's name? Super Dave Osborne.
His name was Dave and he was SUPER!
Early title suggestions:
"Poor Guy."
"How to Break a Man"
"Recruitment Challenges in Our Armed Forces"
This reminds me of those COLLEGE HUMOR skits about the reluctant athlete who keeps getting hard hits to every part of his body.
He... punched... SANTA!!!!
0:01 -- LOL, there was no such thing as an email in 1958.
Very funny thanks do you have more?.
Now that’s a great film
I think this was Super Dave Osborne's Dad
Surgeon Hysterical Warning: Smoking saves lives!
Didn't read entire title. Got halfway through before I realized it was satire. Hilarious
Martin-Baker: the first and last name in ejection seats.
The style of the film seems actually to reflect such UK films of the time, with the Rank Organisation Gong and the use of light cheery upbeat music although the commentary is very much in the American "technical" style of the time, I wonder if this is because Martin Baker personel were involved in this work at Northrop as the US Navy was a big funder of Matin Baker's work in developing what became their Zero (speed) Zero (height) Seat and of course the biggest single purchaser of Martin Baker seats from the late 50s onwards. I recall a Pakistani pilot saying what he felt was the biggest improvement in moving from a Chinese built copy of the Mig21 to the Mirage F1. He said it was the confidence of knowing he was sitting on an actual Martin Baker Zero Zero seat rather than a Chinese reverse engineered version of a Russian seat reversed engineered from an original Marin Baker Zero Zero seat found in wreckage recovered from Vietnam!
Something right out of hotshots
First test on April 1st? No doubt an early Turbo Encabulator helped with critical calculations and record keeping.
That would help explain all the failures.
They have a sense of humor! LMAO
Now THAT was funny right there!
Poor guy! Very funny footage.
That Dr. Stapp, that periscope films mentions in the description, was doing G-force testing using rocket sleds. I guess he got up to 38 G's in one test. They were trying to find out what the body could take and improve crash/safety equipment (engineering it hold up in crashes etc.). The opening credit is a spoof on, "The Rank Organization". Apparently an English movie company. I have seen some of their movies over the years.
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Maybe not better days definitely simpler of days😂😊❤
Ah yes, back in the day when America had a sense of humor and could freely laugh without fear of retribution from the "woke" police... I miss that simpler time. Something like this today would generate a Senate hearing.
"The good old days, when racist slurs were acceptable, and non-white people knew their place."
@@stratostatic However these " non W people " from the day tended to have jobs, 2 parent families and took pride in their neighborhoods Vs today with welfare, single mothers with kids from a dozen daddies and looted / burned cities.
@@stratostaticAnd you HAD to play the race card didn't you? You're the best example of what I was talking about...
@3henry214
And you HAD to pop off with the "woke" BS. I know how you people are with when you thought America was "Great".
HA! I missed the part in the title that said it was a gag film lol! After that first mishap, I"m like- You have got to be kidding!!
The OG Buster
So true!
Now that test engineer sits around 'The Home', whining to the other elderly residents, about how bad things are these days..
That was one very brave test pilot. 🤣 And the reports we were promised in 1959, have yet to be published. Typical Air Force bureaucracy. 😉
Comedy gold!
at 3:48 I bet he is feeling 'dejected' instead of Ejected!!! at least the first two runs.
Most of the accidents happened while on the ground ... or while masking rapid contact with the ground?
That "test pilot" looks an awful lot like "Jaws" from the James Bond movies. Same actor???
So this is what Super Dave Osborne’s father was doing back in the fifties…
Punching Santa in the stomach! LOL!
Oh god that's funny!
Nice christmas revue-sketch comedy
That’s why they tell you never volunteer in the military…..
( might have worked better if they gave him Marry Poppins umbrella…..😁)
Ok that was pretty damn funny
SCIENCE!!!!!
Hilarious I loved it
Hilarious! You could tell that the Test Flunkie, er, cough, ahem...Engineer was getting more nervous as the tests progressed...I wondered if he was smokin' regular Camels, or "funny" cigarettes, by about the third test...
Is the guy in the opening scene Mel Brooks?
Edge of Tomorrow from the 50s 😅
seat separation needs a redesign.
the 50's when men were men and if you died you died
Hilarious!! God forbid we laugh at anything serious today.
Way 2 good
Daad Daaad why did the parashute did not open..
speed wasent high enough.. but daad .. why did it fail again..
speed wasent high enough... but daaad.. it did not fail.. he had no parashute on.. look santa
daad daad santa gave him a new helmet ... the old wan was broken.. .. yes son .. maybe parashute open now
These 'engineers' are better at comedy acting then most of hollywood.