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![[Model rocket launches at Green Mountain Proving Ground (Colorado), circa 1950s-1960s]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/0d3b84943b438ff319b07b218b83363b.jpg "[Model rocket launches at Green Mountain Proving Ground (Colorado), circa 1950s-1960s]")
Film footage of model rocket launches at Green Mountain Proving Ground (Colorado), produced by Model Missiles, Inc., circa 1950s-1960s. The footage is comprised of short scenes of model rockets being prepped and launched via launch rods, perhaps filmed for demonstration purposes or for a commercial. Del Hitch, dressed in a Model Missiles jumpsuit, demonstrates the various steps of a rocket launch,…
![[Estes model rocket engine demonstration, circa 1950s-1960s]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/0a4fa65e218b42db3456d9ea623a7d65.jpg "[Estes model rocket engine demonstration, circa 1950s-1960s]")
Film footage of Estes model rocket engine demonstration, circa 1950s-1960s. The footage features several clips from multiple angles, some in slow-motion, demonstrating the thrust capabilities of Estes-brand model rocket engines. National Association of Rocketry official Jim Kukowsi appears in a few scenes.
The footage is in color and is silent.
Label on container: "National Association of…
![[V-2 rocket launch tests at Peenemunde Airfield, Germany, circa early 1940s]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/b2143059e365a9acf09d5a501033dcc6.jpg "[V-2 rocket launch tests at Peenemunde Airfield, Germany, circa early 1940s]")
Film footage of V-2 rocket launch tests at Peenemunde Airfield, Germany, circa early 1940s. The footage is comprised of short clips of rocket tests, showing rockets being prepared for launch, the launches themselves, and inspections of the impact sites. At 00:03:31, several burned aircraft are shown, including a Heinkel He 111 bomber, apparently damaged by a rocket's impact. At 00:04:45, a rocket…