Editing The Six Million Dollar Man (section)

===Opening sequence===
The crash footage during the opening credits is from the [[Northrop M2-F2|M2-F2]] crash that occurred on May 10, 1967. Test pilot [[Bruce Peterson]]'s lifting body aircraft hit the ground at approximately {{convert|250|mph|kph|0|abbr=on}} and tumbled six times,<ref>{{cite web |title=1967 M2-F2 Crash at Edwards |url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/NASA-803-1967 |website=Check-Six.com |access-date=14 April 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190729122348/http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/NASA-803-1967 |archive-date=July 29, 2019}}</ref> but Peterson survived what appeared to be a fatal accident, though he later lost an eye to infection.{{refn|Video of the craft in flight, and oscillating as in the intro, can be seen at the NASA [[Dryden Flight Research Center]] site.<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA Dryden M2-F2 Movie Collection |url=http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/M2-F2/index.html |website=Dryden Flight Research Center |publisher=NASA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216110539/http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/M2-F2/index.html |archive-date=February 16, 2013 |url-status=dead |date=October 10, 2003}}</ref> The NASA web site, however, does not offer the video of the crash itself, only still photos of the wrecked M2-F2.|group="n"}} In the episode "The Deadly Replay", Oscar Goldman refers to the lifting body aircraft in which Austin crashed as the [[Northrop HL-10|HL-10]], stating, "We've rebuilt the HL-10." The HL-10 is the aircraft first seen in the original pilot movie before the accident flight. In the 1987 TV film ''[[The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman]]'', Austin refers to the craft as the "M3-F5", which was the name used for the aircraft that crashed in the original ''Cyborg'' novel.

In the opening sequence, a narrator (series producer [[Harve Bennett]]) identifies the protagonist, "Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive." Richard Anderson, in character as Oscar Goldman, then intones off-camera, "Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will ''be'' that man. Better than he was before. Better . . . stronger . . . faster." During the first season, beginning with "Population: Zero", Anderson, as Goldman, intoned more simply, "We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better . . . stronger . . . faster." During the operation, as his bionics are being fitted, a list of items and numbers is displayed and lists his power plant as "atomic".