Us Air Force Testing Centre (1953)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unknown or unclear. American newsreel titles read: ’SPECTACULAR AIR FORCE HI-SPEED TEST’. Mojave Desert, California, United States of America. General view of the Test Centre. Various shots taken by high speed cameras. L/Ss of a dummy pilot seated on sled shows the effect on a pilot when crashing. Slow motion shots taken by a robot camera of a rocket tearing from its launching platform and it hurls across the desert, twisting and spinning, and ends up by smashing into the camera. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (19