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Daisy Track Decelerator Tests 221651-07 | Footage Farm

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[Daisy Track Decelerator Tests, Jan-Mar58]  R4 of ?
Man w/ belt & medical wires attached onto sled (?), laying on side & buckled in.  Shot down track in test.
10:49:44  Slate  22Jan58  Man to technicians, wired up & strapped in & fired.
10:50:23  Slate  22Jan58  Subject - Yates.  Broken board on sled.  Photographer on platform w/ black bag over camera on tripod; second cameraman.
10:51:17  Airman out of concrete block building, walks to sled, attached belt & wires.  Equipment. Officer massaging man's leg strapped into sled.  Photogapher.  Sled into stop; man helped up.  Tractor returns sled to starting point.
10:54:13  Man out of bldg & to sled; strapped in.  End of track, plunger on sled into water cushion, man on sled visible, shakes head & technicians check pulse & blood pressure & unstrap him.  He climbs down & walks back.
10:56:03  Slate:  23Jan58  Airman Patterson out of building; strapped into sled & sled ejected.
10:56:44  Slate:  Yates.  Black airman out of bldg; buckled in; sled released.  Culbreath from bldg; into sled.  High angle of sled released.  Long shot of snow capped mountains.
10:58:10  Slate:  23Jan58  Patterson  Overhead of sled coming to stop, pad flies off, man shakes head okay.
10:53:32  Slate:  23Jan58  Yates.  Overhead, sled coming to stop.
10:58:42  Slate  23Jan58  Culbreath. Overhead, sled to stop. 
10:59:15  Slate  04Feb58  Daisy Track.  Pre & Post Launch.  Cushioned seat hoised onto sled.   Slates:  04-05Feb58  Dummy.  Dummy in seat in different positions, vertical to horizontal, to sudden stop from side; towards camera.
11:05:13  Slate  31Mar58  Beeding out of bldg, strapped in vertical seat facing backwards.  Technicians watch.  Mosely to chair & strapped in, fired.  Alvarez to chair, strapped in fired.  Beeding strapped in, launched & helped off.  Mosely at end of run.  Doctors check & walks back.  Alvarez at end of run, same.
Acceleration; Daisy Track Deceleration; Military Medical Testing; Human Subjects; NASA Aerospace Program;
NOTE:  Air powered, water cushioned short track used from 1955 to 1958.  All persons repeat same routine.

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