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Great first hand recollections! We took some of our 36BS B24 vets to fly over their old airfield! ua-cam.com/video/ShVTTsUSXn8/v-deo.html

Gods speed to all of our aviation heroes… Scott you had a huge set of balls.. rip sir

I remember seeing this documentary when it first came out in 1980 or 81. This copy has some of the lead-in footage deleted as the full copy of this video shows the Space Shuttle landing comparing to the X-15, with Scott Crossfield giving some narrative. Still a great video though. I got to see the X-15 land as a child being in Lancaster from 1958 to 1961.

What’s the power source? Does it have to be wired to a battery?

Dictatorships and totalitarian led countries don't count in this for obvious reasons 😊

The only way to change this is change our leaders who don't work for the people who elected them!!!!!

Excellent documentary

Scott Crossfield, absolute bad ass, blown up still no hesitation to blast off again true fearless hero deserves WAY more recognition than was given for what they did for space program.

Damn, I'm about to order the Trail Tech Vapor 752-117 in 2021, & it looks exactly the same. You'd think there'd be some kinda update or something.

My father was a tail gunner in a B25. Burma. India. China. I was a machine gunner Vietnam

Real Warrior

Just posting again... thank you!!

Breaks my heart seeing the expression of fatigue on Scott’s face in the cockpit at aprox 42:30. He looked so stressed . Rip Scott. One day I will see your grave in person to pay respects..

I love the pic of Scott wearing his helmet and seeing the reflection of the windshield on his visor

Remember when America did stuff and got it done. Such a long time ago, though. Today we are chasing records in "likes". Pitty.

The first guy

How come that guy didn't eject

Nice review, just brought my first bike and chose the drz.... Speedo has light but no display so I’ll need a new one! Great too see it has the tacho, definitely an upgade. The light cluster addition look great too

Very cool share Thank you.

Harrison Storms was my great grandfather. I never had the chance to know him the these videos help me a lot

A great documentary, thanks for sharing, very interesting, informative and entertaining, big thumbs up, even with the sound issues, but that’s a minor issue. Something I think is worth mentioning, and is irrefutable, the USA would not have been so far ahead of the rest of the world if it wasn’t for the Nazi/German rocket scientists that the USA “spirited away” to carry on their development of rockets 🚀 and rocket engines, the very same “scientists” that developed the V1 and V2 weapons that killed so many civilians on mainland Europe and England, and if it wasn’t for the USA deciding that these men were of more value to them than the lives they took they would and should have been tried as war criminals for committing crimes against humanity and for prosecuting “aggressive” war, just like those tried, found guilty, and executed at Nuremberg, but, as I said, they were more valuable to the USA than the lives the took, maybe if the USA homeland had been attacked,and American citizens killed, that would more than likely have changed, but because they were not Americans they got away Scot free to carry on and be rewarded for the expertise.

Yeager's a jerk.

Yeager's been living on this one scant achievement his entire life. Crossfield is the true hero.

Can you change it to kmh

Chuck Yeager didn't particularly care for test pilots who left for NASA. The feeling was mutual

is it water resistance

Reaching for the skies was by far the best series. So well done. Thanks for uploading, this brings back a lot of childhood memories.

I am looking for this film. A very long time ago a Japanese TV show translated and broadcasted this film!

I remember 56:26, when the shuttle landed....

brother I remember this..... Yes I do.... OMGosh thank you... I remember this like yesterday

Great great video! Huge thanks.

When I was 15 we flew up to Wisconsin and on the way we had to go over a weather system. After much ear popping the Captain announced that we were at 43,800 ft and too take a look. Apparently we were really high up. I had a window seat so I was already stuck to the window. If I pressed my face to the window I could see the slight curvature of the Earth and if i looked up as high as i could, i could see the blackness of space. That is when I realized we were in deep if anything went wrong and we were only 44 thousand feet up. It's a picture that has not diminished thru time. The test pilots of the past were exceptional men of determination. Above 50 thousand feet your basically at the edge of the atmosphere and these guys were doubling that. There is no help up there, your at the doorstep of God. HATS OFF TO ALL THESE EXCEPTIONAL PILOTS!

I highly recommend everyone listen to the real time audio of chuck during his supersonic tumble. He gets his aircraft back under control and says “i can’t say much more, I gotta try to save myself!” If you are human you will have goosebumps. The most amazing instance of inertial coupling ever, and bless crossfield for appreciating it.

I must be only man on earth who has read yeagers autobiography as well as crossfield s and can appreciate them both equally.

HERO, AN AAF HERO OF THE GREATEST GENERATION> ABSOLUTE RESPECT AND ADMIRATION LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM> my Uncle was a Tail gunner, B17 shot down, sent to Stalag Luft 4, survived the War, absolutely loved and honored him until he went to Heaven too young at 75--82nd Abn was wonderful-they did his funeral, burial and 21 gun Salute. Honorable man! Mr Day, you are a TRUE AMERICAN HERO! RESPECT HONOR AMERICAN HERO

You sir, are a TRUE American hero. Thank you to you and EVERYONE that served and saved our country, way of life and the world. Liberals today want to vilify great men like this.

Not to be a shit or anything, but Americans always had problems with valves being faulty. One has to ask the question: why can't Americans machine valves accurately? It seems that other countries have little problem with valve manufacture. Most US rockets blew up because of faulty valve design or manufacture. Question: Was NASA using the same company, and that company using that same machinist to make these valves? It seems to me that someone ought t have been fired a long time ago. Could it be that the boss had a son or son-in-law doing the machining and felt he could not fire him for incompetence? What about the guy who did the valve inspection, the guy in charge of checking the tolerances, that is, quality control?

The X-15 should have led to the X-20 DYNASOAR , completion of development and entered operational service.

"Some peckerwood has to fly the thing..." Pancho...at her Happy Bottom Riding Club"

Except for the moronic music & the BS about going to the Moon this was a great video.

Where the Flatters at?? hahaha

20:20 *There were throttleable rocket engines before.

"The sonic wall was mine ,the hangar wall was Corssfields " Lmao Yeagers troll level was supersonic.

from this to politically corrected generations of self-absorbed zombies. god help us.

The Van Allen belts were discovered in the late 50's so Kennedy knew it wasn't possible or he was told that it was just to get a commitment for all that money.

I noticed he referred to spudnic as a "point of light".

A Cessna 210 piloted by Scott Crossfield crashed near Ludville Georgia in April of 2006, there were no passengers, Crossfield did not survive. Crash has been attributed to thunderstorms in the area.Not the only 1950's era rocket pilot to get caught by the weather, not the last pilot either.

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Thank you to all the men and women that helped us push the boundaries of the human race.

FYI, Kennedy did not initiate the moon landing program. the moon landing program was begun three years prior to Kennedys Inauguration and the target date for the lunar landing was in 1975. I remember that from 1958 and it seemed like a long way away. What Kennedy did do was to move the date up by five years and increase funding. The original paper that described the moon landing was written at NASA in 1956. The program was begun under Eisenhower.