This U.S. Air Force test photograph, dated April 15, 1960, documents the fifteenth in a series of capsule drop tests conducted using a Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber, with a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter serving as chase aircraft to photograph the event. Such tests supported the development of encapsulated escape systems designed to protect aircrew ejecting at high speed and altitude, a critical safety concern as the Air Force fielded increasingly fast supersonic aircraft during the Cold War era. Project: 218216