# POST-WWII JET AGE AIRCRAFT DESIGN, ROCKET & NUCLEAR POWERED AIRCRAFT 25974

“Design For Survival” is a black-and-white educational film from the Atomic Age telling the viewer of advancements in air travel. Produced for the Aircraft Industry Association by Arthur Lodge Productions, the late 1950s film opens with various aircraft in flight including the NB-36H Nuclear Test Aircraft (NTA) bomber aircraft equipped with a nuclear reactor (a test bed for the time when, the narrator assures us, nuclear aircraft will be the norm). Also shown is the rocket powered Bell X-2 (mark 01:19 ) and beginning at mark 02:00 reminds us of the role fighters and bombers had in the Allied victory in World War II. We watch bombers being assembled (mark 03:48 ) including the B-29’s (Enola Gay and Bockscar) that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (mark 04:28 ). Moving on to a postwar America, the film explains how the aircraft quickly moved from dropping bombs to transporting the public, thanks in part to the jet engine as a diagram explains how that type of engine works starting at mark 07:15 . Although the US learned during the Korean War that the Soviet Union also had been making advancements in jet engines, US jets were still superior as a fighter is shown taking off at mark 09:20 . To continue meeting the needs of the jet age, new aircraft facilities were constructed across the United States and we learn how science and engineering were taking bigger roles in aircraft design. Mark 13:48 takes us to a “modern” jet airplane factory and we glimpse production…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/25974DesignForSurvival)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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