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X-20: A Spaceplane That Could Have Been ‘Dropped’ from a B-52 Bomber

Decades before the Space Shuttle, the U.S. backed the X-20 Dyna-Soar: a reusable, skip-glide spaceplane born from WWII German ...
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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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The US Air Force’s Newest B-52 Stratofortress Crews Just Graduated

There are currently 76 B-52s in the US Air Force fleet—and many of these graduates are young enough to be the grandchildren of the original pilots of those aircraft.

Fred Schneider on the B-52’s Most Glorious and Innovative Music

I don’t like when people call us camp. Camp means you don’t know you’re ridiculous, and we know what we’re doing.” ...