Fake News from 1948

Transfer and restore of 16mm film. The XF-85 Goblin parasite jet at 1:06. (Stubby little sucker.) Reversed footage to appear the jet was returning to the master plane. Could be due to the pilot smashing the canopy and loosing his helmet on this flight.

Because of turbulence encountered as the XF-85 appproached the trapeze, only three of the seven free flights ended in a successful hookup. The other four flights ended in skid landings on Rogers dry lakebed at Edwards AFB. During the first flight Ed Schoch missed the trapeze with the hook and hit it with the cockpit canopy of the Goblin. The trapeze broke the canopy and knocked off his helmet. Schoch was forced to land on the dry lakebed.

https://www.air-and-space.com/goblins.htm