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Aviation history is filled with many planes – failure or success – that did some amazing and groundbreaking things. The X-15 is clearly in...
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Aviation history is filled with many planes – failure or success – that did some amazing and groundbreaking things. The X-15 is clearly in...
Meet the X-15: Before Mercury astronauts rode Redstones into orbit, before Gemini astronauts rendezvoused and docked, and before Apollo astronauts drove around the lunar...
The X-15 Flew Really Fast – Simply put, no manned aircraft has flown faster than the North American X-15. The hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft was...
The X-15, SR-71, and MiG-25 were all speed demons: Unfortunately for aviation enthusiasts, the world’s fastest-ever jets are all mothballed, retired, and gathering dust...
Hypersonic everything is all the rage these days as Russia, China, and the United States all try to master the technology. And yet, the...
What a former of the U.S. Air Force and defense expert had to say on the X-15: Before the Mercury astronauts broke the threshold of...
Yes, the X-15 was a speed demon, but it made far more history than numbers on a dial: Simply put, no manned aircraft has...
X-15 – A Truly Special X-Plane – Before Al Shepherd lobbed into space aboard a Mercury capsule, before John Glenn made his three orbits, and...
While the SR-71 Blackbird remains the world’s fastest air-breathing aircraft, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own richly deserved place in the aviation history record...
Yes, the X-15 was a Mach 6.7 monster that deserves its place in the history books: In 1967, William “Pete” Knight made history at the...