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X-15 flight 90 accidentally pushed a pilot past the edge of space
The North American X-15 was built to flirt with the edge of space, not to cross it by accident. Yet on a research mission ...
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X-15: The Rocket Plane That Flew to Mach 6.7
While the SR-71 Blackbird gets all the press, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own richly deserved place in the aviation history record books: on October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force test pilot William ...
An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of the 1950s and 60s. The North American X-15 was ...
An aircraft capable of hitting 4,520 mph (nearly seven times the speed of sound) is ludicrous to even think about, but the North American X-15 achieved this, defying comparison to any other aircraft ...
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