X-15 rocket planeThe X-15 was a high speed airplane that paved the way to outer space
The X-15 rocket plane program was famous and a really big deal in its time. The X-15's rocket engine burned through its fuel supply in just two minutes, so it couldn't waste time taking off; it was drop-launched at altitude from under the wing of a B-52, and like the space ...
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Lot # 1553: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (2013) - History of Starflight Vostok, Gemini Capsule, North American X-15 Rocket Plane, and Space Shuttle Enterprise Models
The X-15 Rocket Plane restores these pioneers, and the others who made it happen, to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight.Joe H. EngleMichelle L. EvansHistory
X-15 (Rocket aircraft)NONFICTIONMarquiss, ScottAir Power HistoryAnderson, J. and Passman, R., X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age, Zenith Press, 2014.
Univ.Library JournalEvans, M. (2013) The X-15 Rocket Plane--Flying the First Wings into Space, University of Nebraska Press, 2013.Evans, Michelle, The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space , University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE (for release Spring 2013)...
The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space.JOINERSTEPHENAir & Space Smithsonian
Reading about the X-15 rocket plane brings back fond memories of the 1960s. I first learned about the spaceplane in a boy's comic annual bought as a Christmas present. Later, in searching a school library I found more about this sleek black projectile, dropped from under the wing of a...
This is an unusual and interesting history, researched and written in the 35 years after the X-15's 1959-1968 flight programme. The author's credentials are unique. She was only five when her father, an instrumentation engineer with Sangamo Electric, took her on one of his day trips to ...