Test Flights: Beyond the Limits

Synopsis: Looks at flight testing and research using aerial footage of research aircraft and interviews with pilots and engineers.
1: Presents the leading edge of NASA flight research, from the X-15 to testing of the new X-33 engine.
w: Examines how pilots and crews meet the challenges of supersonic flight with such planes as the X-1 and SR-71 and explores the new technologies of the X-43 and High Speed Civil Transport, which may open a new world of unprecedented speed.
3: Explores how computer developments can improve aircraft safety and enable aircraft to perform flips, spins, and dog-fight manouevres impossible for a pilot to control. Shows the radical-looking X-29 and the thrust-vectoring X-31.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 3 x 47 min.
Year of production: 1998
Availability: Sale; 2000 sale: US$24.00 (+p&p)
Subjects: Engineering
Keywords: aeronautical engineering

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