this documentary about Dryden is great. I hope you post more videos like this!

Thumbs up for the fantastic documentary. It was extremely interesting and educational.

By far one of the best focumentarys I've seen so far.

Great documentary!!! Thanks for sharing!

Stories about brave pilots and beautiful birds. Edwards Air Force Base... Pilots Paradise!

This right here is what aviation is about. Such romanticized activities are almost like those out of a movie, but they actually fucking happened. So awesome, especially the X-15.

BACKING MUSIC IS A PAIN FOR THE HARD OF HEARING

great Doc, thanks for sharing

The landing gear on those flying bathtubs comes down pretty quick

30:58 my favorite scene

sick video / documentray, nice one! :)

They certainly had the right stuff

Inject this directly into my veins

Good Video/audio, thanks 🧐

Six Million Dollar Man. That might be cheap now.

Lucky folks, God Bless you all. Nothing compares to those booms on a clear day! 🇺🇸💪

Great vid Boyd...love that stuff.. Push the envelope...

great video. thank you.

I LOVE THE F-14 & 747

The Bell X-5 Swing wing system came out form the Messerchmitt P-1101 wich aircraft never flown.

Interesting video. 👍👍 The last 20 years at Dryden seems to have been taken over by the CRT/DIE ideology. This policy means relying on modelling and ground control of flights rather than human piloting and observations. No great leap forwards! The results are glaringly obvious in the drawn out Artemis space launch program started in 2010 yet by 2022 without any launch of the full package. My generation put a man on the moon in less than 10 years and Artemis is not using any startlingly new technology that wasn't applied to the Apollo or Space Shuttle programs.

Lots of silly bits in the video, The Bell X-1 mach meter only went up to 1.0 , the images before this had nothing to do with anything and this is in the first minute..It continued like that, but I enjoyed it.

Who is the idiot who thought showing a 50cal _cartridge_ was appropriate when talking about the 50cal _bullet_ as the X-1's shape? They _completely_ ruined the presentation! Anyone who didn't already know what that was all about couldn't see the obvious; half that boat tail bullet was hidden in the case! That was worse than confusing; that was just STUPID!

Hey Greg J, want some cheese to go with that whine? (Sorry couldn't help it!) This is a good overview, definitely worth a look for airheads like me? (LOL)

Who's voice is this?

Meer Rock aviation based 9n research by meercats

XS-1 = excess 1 . That is in excess of Mach 1!

What kind of aircraft air diasters calls the attention of NASA ?

authors (since they are americans, no wonder) forgot that they technology got 'shared' by brits, and americans carried that on. Shared is a big word here, since americans never shared back anything! (so usual).