X-15 tail with XLR-99. The initial 24 powered flights used two Reaction Motors XLR11 liquid-propellant rocket engines, enhanced to provide a total of 16,000 pounds-force (71 kN) of thrust …

2014年2月28日 · In the joint X-15 hypersonic research program that NASA conducted with the U.S. Air Force, the Navy, and North American Aviation Inc., the aircraft flew during a period of …

2010年10月22日 · The wedge tail is now a commonly accepted shape for hypersonic control surfaces, but the X-15 was the first to employ it on a manned aircraft. To barrel through the air …

by the X–15 at speeds of 4000 miles per hour. The X–15 program is adding to the historic foundation of aero- dynamics, sometimes measurably, often intangibly, in ways as yet un- …

The North American X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft bridged the gap between manned flight within the atmosphere and manned flight beyond the atmosphere into space. After …

The X-15 was an experimental rocket plane, built by North American Aviation, that set aircraft speed and altitude records, some of which still stand today. First flown on 8 June 1959, it was …

In 1954 NASA completed these studies and produced a proposal to the Air Force and Navy, for a hypersonic research airplane, the X-15. This Report describes the design and operation of this …

2014年3月12日 · The X-15 was a rocket-powered aircraft 50 ft long with a wingspan of 22 ft. It was a missile-shaped vehicle with an unusual wedge-shaped vertical tail, thin stubby wings, …

When suspended under the bomber’s wing, the X-15s tail was going be in the way of the B-52s wing flaps so the flaps were going to have to be deactivated. The fueled X-15 would weigh …

X-15: The museum displays the second X-15, tail number 66671, in its Research & Development Hangar. (66670, the first (and only other surviving) X-15 is displayed in the Milestones of Flight …