AERO-MEDICAL FIELD LABORATORY TESTS Reel 4 · Part 2

Description

Summary: Coverage of launches, with instrumented packages, of altitude balloons; launching of a high altitude balloon with instrument package and two-stage HTV rocket attached; an unidentified sled run, and crash experiment investigations using instrumented dummies, bears, and humans on the short (Daisy) track. (Shot list to follow.) Reel 1: Shows balloon launching convoy stopping in the desert near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, unloading equipment from a truck, setting up a portable wind screen. Preparations for launchings include inflation of the balloons with gas and instrument packages and reflectors being attached to the balloons. Several launchings, including a balloon which collapsed upon launching; and the convoy passing through the main gate at Holloman, underway on the highway, and turning off the highway into the desert. Reel 2: 1) AV's of a balloon with instrument package and a two-stage HTV rocket attached, in flight. 2) AV's of the instrument package attached to a descending parachute. 3) An airman checking and arming the two-stage HTV rocket. 4) Several men checking the instrument package. 5) An airman attaching the two-stage HTV rocket to the instrument package. 6) Ground shots and AV's of the balloon launching. Reel 3: 1) Several civilians checking a two-stage HTV rocket on a launcher. 2) A bear on its back as several civilians strap it to a sled on the Daisy track. 3) Impact of the sled. 4) Doctors examining the bear after the test -- the bear is then lifted off the sled and placed on a cart by several men and wheeled away. Reel 4: 1) The long track water brake at Holloman, filling with water. 2) Unidentified sled run. 3) Booster rockets on sled. 4) CU of water brakes on sled. (Identified as water ducts in captions.) 5) Crash experiment investigations using instrumented dummies, a bear, and humans on the sled at spinal positions 45 degrees to 80 degrees, on the short Daisy track at Holloman. 6) Sequence of scenes of the seat being strapped on the sled; the subjects as sled impacts -- dummy's head is broken off in two of the runs; doctors trying to revive the bear after a test; doctors checking the human subjects after the runs; cameramen setting up several still and motion picture cameras; sled being pulled by tractor back to launch position, and unloading tubes from firing mechanism. Fair to Good (Basic: Orig Koda)

Collection

Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities