- 65 Years Ago: First Powered Flight of the X-15 Hypersonic . . .
Standing between the first two aircraft, North American Aviation chief test pilot A Scott Crossfield, left, symbolically hands over the keys to the X-15 to U S Air Force pilot Robert M White and NASA pilot Neil A Armstrong at the conclusion of the contracted flight test program
- The story of Neil Armstrong’s X-15 Test Flight that Bounced . . .
Neil Armstrong inadvertently pulled too high an angle of attack during pullout The X-15 flight path took a bounce in the atmosphere, and he overshot the Edwards Air Force Base, heading south at Mach 3 and at 100,000 feet
- North American X-15 - Wikipedia
The X-15 flight crew, left to right: Air Force Captain Joseph H Engle, Air Force Major Robert A Rushworth, NASA pilot John B "Jack" McKay, Air Force Major William J "Pete" Knight, NASA pilot Milton O Thompson, and NASA pilot William H Dana
- This week in Edwards flight test history gt; Edwards Air Force . . .
edwards air force base, calif -- On Dec 5, 1963, U S Air Force pilot Maj Bob Rushworth flew an X-15 to Mach 6 06 which, at the time, was the highest speed achieved by a winged aircraft During his time with the program, Rushworth completed 34 X-15 flights, more than any other pilot
- #OTD 7 Oct 1963 at Edwards Air. . . - Edwards Air Force Base . . .
#OTD 7 Oct 1963 at Edwards Air Force Base - Captain Joe H Engle became the third US Air Force pilot to fly an X-15 Engle later completed 16 X-15 flights, three of which exceeded 50 miles earning
- July 19, 1963: North American X-15 Flight Records gt; Air Force . . .
Joseph Albert Walker was an American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) test pilot, and astronaut He was one of 12 pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA
- John B. McKay | National Aeronautics and Space Administration . . .
John Barron McKay (December 8, 1922 – April 27, 1975) was an American naval officer and aviator in World War II, test pilot, and one of the first pilots assigned to the X-15 flight research program at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California
- X-15 | This Day in Aviation
8 June 1959: At Edwards Air Force Base, California, North American Aviation’s Chief Engineering Test Pilot, A Scott Crossfield, made the first flight of the X-15A hypersonic research rocketplane 56-6670 was the first of three X-15s built for the U S Air Force and NASA
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