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NASA Uploads Hundreds of Rare Aircraft Films to YouTube (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article: NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center is currently in the process of uploading hundreds of extremely rare films to YouTube. And I'd advise you to stop reading if you want to get any work done today. The center has uploaded roughly 300 of the planned 500 films that it will continue to put up over the coming months. And as you can see from the well-populated YouTube channel, they have everything from 1950s experimental aircraft like the X-3 Stiletto to 1960s Lunar Landing Research Vehicle tests (seen in the GIF above) to videos of the time that they intentionally crashed a Boeing 720 in 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrydenTV/playlists
In the lifting body section, they left out the crash that almost killed Col. Steve Austin - and of course right after, NASA/OSI made those films about Col. Austin's missions.
The question is, why are they trying to hide it now? I blame the Trump administration! The Russians obviously have something to with it. Austin is now working for the Russians?
It took them 40 years to scrub out all the grays managing the projects.
Table-ized A.I.
The series "Moonrace!" ran from 1968 to 1972-- it was a sequel to the very popular "Space Race!" series.
They did a sequel called "Skylab!" that ran for a few episodes in the 1970s, but didn't get very good ratings and got cancelled early. Then they tried one more revival, with the terrible name "Apollo-Soyuz Test Project", where they tried to get a more international audience, but that was cancelled after the pilot in 1975.
There is talk of a reboot, but the fan community is understandably skeptical.
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Lighten up, Frances. This wasn't a 'news' article, it was a blg post. Apparently the writer found these videos interesting, so he decided to make a post about it. And apparently he presumed that if you are reading his blog you have similar interests, and would also find these videos interesting. And there are a lot of them, so you could spend your day looking at them.
See ya...
Maybe they're films about rare aircraft, rather than rare films about aircraft.
Or copies of the films were rare before they were put into the Internet...
Depending on the encoding used, original version copies might still be rare.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
" it must be an effective tool for generating revenue. "
Must be. It got your clicks.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
You know what they say..."It's a rare medium that's done well".
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Sorry. I'll go back to work now.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
You do know that 1) the originals were on film so technically they are films. 2) the "rare" part is that very few people had them. In this case only NASA has these films so they are "one-offs" by your own definition. In contrast, how many films existed of the Challenger explosion. A few because there were more than a few members of the public that filmed it. NASA looked all footage when trying to asses what happened.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
And as soon as it makes it onto the internet, rare is an oxymoron
Not at all true. For all the bits floating around the internet having a single video posted on a single site definitely fits the definition of rare.
Genius post. This comment made my day. Thanks!
Er, I'm not sure you would find that definition in a dictionary. Of course, you did do the air quotes, so "film" can pretty much mean whatever you want.
Nevermind, carry on.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
The Internet Archive is a better way to upload videos to be archived. archive.org
I agree with you entirely, but I don't think that applies in this case. The headline was fact-based and direct. You have to already have clicked through to the story in order to get what I think the author genuinely intended to be an amusing bit of character.
You have the right target, but I think you shot wide and hit a civilian.
don't know why you are downvoted, obviously having some fun... Note that at the time NASA had the ***best*** footage because it was real during a time when there were people still living when they remembered reading fresh newspaper article of the first airplane flight. And the special effects of movies were not that great (but they sure did make up with compelling story and character development). Nowadays, show someone a raw image from Cassini spacecraft and they'll say it's a photoshop of something.
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