Test Flights Beyond the Limits
150 minutes/1999 Grades 7-Adult
Presents an entertaining and compelling sotry of the world of flight test and reserach. Three 47-mnute porgrams combine exciting aerial footage of unique research aircraft and insightful interviews with pilots and engineers to tell the inspiring and someimes dangerous story of flight research.
Program 1: Flights of Discovery - From the X-15 to testing of the new X-33 engine, learn what drives NASAs modern-day explorers to go beyond tragedy, to find answers, and to push the edges of flight where no one has gone before.
Program 2: The Need for Speed - Witness how pilots and crews meet the challenges of supersonic slight with planes such as the X-1 andn SR-71, and exploe the new technologies of the X-43 and high-speed civil transport, which may open a new world of unprecedented speed.
Program 3: The New Frontier - Experience how current computer technology is changing how we fly. From the radical looking X-29 to the amazing thrust vectoring X-31, explore how computer developments can improve safety and deliver undreamed-of performance.
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