SciShow
A Surprisingly Simple Secret to Supersonic Flight
Making a faster plane takes more than building better engines and structures. To go supersonic, engineers had to solve hundreds of problems -- including ditching one of the biggest assumptions in aerodynamics!
SciShow
Its a Bird Its a Plane Its Oh Yep Thats a Plane
Our modern skies are filled with these flying tubes as they shuttle hundreds of thousands of people around the world every day, but even more impressive than their numbers is the science and engineering that makes airplanes work.
SciShow
A Surprisingly Simple Secret to Supersonic Flight
Making a faster plane takes more than building better engines and structures. To go supersonic, engineers had to solve hundreds of problems -- including ditching one of the biggest assumptions in aerodynamics!
Curated Video
Big Ideas - Episode 18 - Chuck Yeager
On October 14, Charlies Ellwood Chuck Yeager became, at 24, the first pilot to travel faster than sound In the years following World War 2, breaking the sound barrier was a secret goal of many in the air force. The X1 rocket powered...
Curated Video
The Technology to Get us to Space
Dr. Forrester examines the technological innovations in the study of space by giving examples of innovations which have led to advances in space programs. She also identifies space travel programs by exploring NASA and the efforts that...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Back To The Moon: The Silicon Valley of space
After a quiet half a century since the last Apollo mission landed on the moon, Associate Professor Alan Duffy takes us inside the new space race. Learn what is it about the Mojave Space Port that is so important to the space race. Also,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
JACQUELINE COCHRAN FIRST WOMAN TO FLY FASTER THAN SOUND
AT EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA, AN F.-86 SABREJET IS TAKEN ALOFT BY SPEED FLIER JACQUELINE COCHRAN. ALREADY WORLD RENOWED FOR MANY RECORD SERIAL PERFORMANCES, MISS COCHRAN BLASTS THROUGH THE SOUND BARRIER. SHE ALSO SETS A NEW...
Curated Video
Flight of B29 with Attached X-1 Supersonic Plane
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342 USAF 18482 - Flight of B29 with Attached X-1 Supersonic Plane
B/W Silent 28th Aug 1950
01:16:25 Ms face on shot of B29 taxiing along runway with airport vehicle in front
01:16:35 GVs B29 taxiing and carrying the X1 in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower awards 1954 Harmon International Trophy to pilots Chuck Yeager and Jacqueline Cochran
President Dwight D. Eisenhower walks with Jacqueline Cochran on White House portico and down garden steps followed by four men including Major Chuck Yeager; they look at trophies on table / Close up cameramen film event / Medium shot...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pilot Jacqueline Cochran becomes first woman to fly faster than sound in USAF jet from Edwards Air Force Base, CA
Title "Jackie Cochran, First woman to fly faster than sound" superimposed over aerial shot of jet flying low overhead /VS member of ground crew towing jet across tarmac with tractor / Cochran in flight suit walking towards camera next to...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower presents the Harmon Intl trophies to aviator Major Chuck Yeager and aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran at the While House
Title: "Top Awards in Aviation - Harmon Trophies Presented" superimposed over freeze frame - Jacqueline Cochran, noted flyer, and Maj. Charles E. Yeager, U.S. Air Force pilot, and trophies / President Dwight Eisenhower escorting...
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B/W 1947 wide shot smoke coming from Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane as it breaks sound barrier / CA / newsreel
B/W 1947 wide shot smoke coming from Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane as it breaks sound barrier / CA / newsreel
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B/W 1947 SIDE VIEW of Chuck Yeager sitting in cockpit of Bell X-1 airplane / California / newsreel
B/W 1947 SIDE VIEW of Chuck Yeager sitting in cockpit of Bell X-1 airplane / California / newsreel
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B/W 1947 man towing Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane / California / newsreel
B/W 1947 man towing Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane / California / newsreel
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B/W 1947 REAR VIEW AERIAL Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane flying over clouds / CA / newsreel
B/W 1947 REAR VIEW AERIAL Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane flying over clouds / CA / newsreel
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B/W 1947 Chuck Yeager showing man parts of Bell X-1 airplane / California / newsreel
B/W 1947 Chuck Yeager showing man parts of Bell X-1 airplane / California / newsreel
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B/W 1947 AERIAL Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane detaching from B-29 in air / CA / newsreel
B/W 1947 AERIAL Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane detaching from B-29 in air / CA / newsreel
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B/W 1947 man towing Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane past camera / California / newsreel
B/W 1947 man towing Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane past camera / California / newsreel
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B/W 1947 REAR VIEW B-29 with Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane taxiing on airfield / California / newsreel
B/W 1947 REAR VIEW B-29 with Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane taxiing on airfield / California / newsreel
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B/W 1947 low angle PAN B-29 with Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane flying over camera / California / newsreel
B/W 1947 low angle PAN B-29 with Yeager's Bell X-1 airplane flying over camera / California / newsreel
Curated Video
Playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died aged 73
PLAYWRIGHT AND ACTOR SAM SHEPARD HAS DIED AGED 73
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity...