Joe Jordan’s F-104 Record Altitude Flight (1959)

Courtesy Video DVIDS Hub Historic footage of Joe Jordan’s Record Altitude Flight. Scenes include: a/c on ramp at dawn, strategy board meeting - Capt Joe Jordan and Capt Joe Jordan, on flight line for instrumentation installation. Jordan walks out of Test Ops and enters cockpit, engine runup and taxi out, take off, contrail, tracking gear and graphs, contrail, landing and taxi in, out of aircraft, post flight and taking helmut off, inflight formation and other assorted shots (fair to good quality). Click