EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE 1950s STOCK FOOTAGE REEL XF-92A, F-4, F-100, F-102, F-104 AIRCRAFT XD31061
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This brief film displays some of the innovative and experimental aircrafts of the 1950’s at the well-known Edwards Air Force Base. The footage likely dates to the late 1950s or early 1960s. Edwards Air Force Base is situated in Kern County, California. The base was constructed in 1933 and saw much activity during WWII, the Cold War and in the present day as a flight test center. The base is also used for ground research and has a NASA facility as well. Nearly all aircrafts purchased by the USAF since the Second World War were developed there. Originally, the base was known as Muroc Air Force Base of California though it was rechristened in 1948 after an experimental flying wing bomber, the Northrop YB-49, crashed into the Mojave Desert. All five crew members perished; one being Glen Edwards and this is who the base was renamed for. During the time period following the war, a promise of a turbojet revolution and supersonic breakthrough was vitalized.
The film opens with a welcome sign to the Air Force Base (:13). A 1953 Chevrolet Corvette hardtop glides down a California highway (:53) as the camera car follows behind. Air Force men stand in a circle before their jets (1:09) as the camera peels up higher showing the noses of the great crafts. The Convair (1:30) XF-92A sits to the left bottom of the screen. The North American F-100 Super Sabre sits to the right at (2:16). The F101 Voodoo fighter (2:39) was crafted by McDonnell. The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger; an interceptor aircraft was introduced in 1956 (2:57). The F-104 Starfighter was crafted by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (3:48). Modern jet fighters sit in a circle (4:25). The F-4 Phantom appears with a close look at (5:54). The F-100 Super Sabre reappears at (6:28). The camera pans around the innovative crafts providing an aerial view (6:53) as the film concludes.
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I'm going to share this with my mother. Her uncle was an Air Force test pilot at Edwards when this footage was shot.
I was stationed at Edwards 78-82
The big hangar and verious maintenance shops to the left side
and the old control tower to the
Right ......brings back some good
memories, aircraft were different
T-38, A-37, F-4s ,F-15s F16s...
Space shuttles, B-1As . Edwards was
A happening and fun base in the late
70s early 80s for an airplane nut like me! All ex Thunderbird F-4s too.
At 2:04 , that's a famous photo of all the jets together from above. One of my favorites 😎
Seeing the F-100 brought back memories. I first saw a pair fly over our location near a treeline adjacent to a rice field we were pinned down in. Those guys put down some serious ordnance in their first pass. After a second pass, we were no longer under fire by the NVA. I always thought that the "Hunn" was both a beautiful aircraft, and a blessing. Thanks for making an old soldier remember why our country was so great.
Intro tunes gots me feets tappin and me fingers snappin🎵 🎶
Whoa ! How cool is the Corvette at the beginning!!! So cool seeing all these aircraft! As a kid back then, I think I built every one of those planes and planted the seed for me to fly ! Thanks for posting! 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🙋♂️👍🖖🏻
Back in those days it was common for pilots wanting to set speed records in the air. In 1980s I talked with someone who worked as an electronics tech at Edwards, he said him and his friends also wanted to set speed records with their cars. He said one time he got from Edwards to Lancaster in 16 minutes. Can get up to 120 or so MPH on the straight highways, he figured how to take those 90 degree turns at about 60 mph (I still don't understand how that was done). All the roads are straight and laid out in a grid on the flat Mojave Desert. Some of the intersections have stop signs, these were usually put up after a fatality crash at an intersection.
I didn't see an XF-92 or F-4 in the video I did see the F-80/T-33 F84F ThunderStreak, F-86, F-86 Saber dog, F-89 Scorpion, F-94 Starfire, F-100, F-102, F-104, F-105, and an F-106 but no Phantoms or XF-92...
And an F-101.
All the century fighters…
Always Vigilant.
used to fall asleep in the XF-92A Cockpit when it was in Bld 13 at WPAFB, my reserve unit did a lot of the restoration sheet metal work on it. I did not see it in the film here
That F-80 must have been one of the last in USAF service
Nice video. Did not see an F-4. There was an F-105 though.
Where are the flying sausers?????
In Roswell 🤯
free!
😍😍👍👍👍
Should say speed limit mach 3.5.