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A u.s. navy fighter jet is conducting a bomb deployment test when something goes horribly wrong. >> it was quite an event. then we started doing more acrobatics. i was thinking about how i was going to get out of the airplane. >> september 30th, 1981, 5,000 feet over the naval air station in maryland. test flight photographer is filming an f-18 hornet from a chase plane. >> it was basically filled with concrete. the mission was to find out how the mark 82 would separate from the airplane in an emergency mode. >> dozens of other cameras are also recording the critical test of the navy's newest ...

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Appear to be cell phone cameras in the mexican desert are not just amazing video, they are science projects to improve survivability. >> the chase plane that was actually flying this airplane at the time probably pushed the nose down quite hard so that some of the aircraft would break apart and give them an idea on what was survivable and what wasn't. >> reporter: just like this nasa experiment nearly 30 years ago, there were crash test dummies on board who can be seen absorbing impact and even fire. >> the idea was to look at what could they do to mitigate the fireball that is created by many...

One orchestrated by discovery tv and captured for youtube on what appear to be cell phone cameras in the mexican desert are not just amazing video, they are science projects to improve survivability. >> the chase plane that was actually flying this airplane at the time probably pushed the nose down quite hard so that some of the aircraft would break apart and give them an idea on what was survivable and what wasn't. >> reporter: just like this nasa experiment nearly 30 years ago, there were crash test dummies on board who can be seen absorbing impact and even fire. >> the idea was to look at w...

Betting is the best view in the world of a modified 747 that's giving a piggy back ride to the space shuttle discovery. it's being followed by a chase plane on the upper right corner. that's nasa t-38. it's a small plane. it's the hardest working shuttle in the program. it spent over 39 missions in space. looks like its earned its retirement. you can see that today. in order to get the shuttle from the kennedy space center to d.c., where it will be put on display, nasa mounted the shuttle to the modified 747. there's an incredible time lapse video of what it takes to put this on top of the oth...