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A Torrid Journey (1958-00-00)
About this film
This episode takes up the problem of radiant heat from the sun, especially aerodynamic heating from friction with the air in a rocket space ship leaving or re-entering the earth's atmosphere. Capt. Kincheloe recounts his experience with the rocket-powered Bell X-2 and discusses the forthcoming X-15 which is expected to fly even faster and higher than the X-2. Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe is a US Air Force test pilot, Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California. Capt. Kincheloe set the new altitude record of 24 miles in the rocket-powered Bell X-2 in September 1956 (see TIME Magazine, October 1, 1956, page 72). (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Directors & creators
KUHT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Aerospace engineering, Aerodynamic heating, Space medicine, Hubertus Strughold, Thermodynamics, Space exploration, Bell X-2, North American X-15, Atmospheric reentry, Physics education, Kinetic energy, High-speed flight, Heat transfer, Rocketry, Aeronautics, Atmospheric density, National Educational Television, Skin temperature, Stagnation temperature, 1950s history, Radiant heat, Iven Kincheloe
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