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Today in Aviation History: First Powered Flight of the North American X-15

Discover the story of the North American X-15's first powered flight on September 17, 1959, when Scott Crossfield piloted the rocket-powered aircraft to Mach 2.11-launching a new era of hypersonic ...
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The X-15 was a Starfighter in All But Name

The X-15 was a key bridge between conventional atmospheric flight and spaceflight. The North American X-15 is one of the most groundbreaking aircraft ever created in the history of aviation and space ...
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The Mach 6.7 X-15 Rocket Plane Has A Message for the U.S. Air Force

America built the X-15 to get flight data in the unknown between airplanes and spacecraft. -The rocket-powered, Inconel-X research plane, air-dropped from a B-52 and driven by a throttleable XLR99, ...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration X-15 Transparency Collection

Click to open image viewer. [NASM2006-12828] 70mm glass-mounted slides from the collection North American X-15 Glass-Mounted Color Transparencies (NASA), NASM.2006.0050. Photo by Mark Avino. CC0 Usage ...