2023年7月26日 · One of three X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft being carried aloft under the wing of its B-52 mothership. The X-15 aircraft, ship #1 (56-6670), sits on the lakebed early in its illustrious career of high speed flight research.

Robert White, Bill Dana, Neil Armstrong and Joe Engle were on hand when astronaut wings were presented to the three NASA pilots who flew the X-15 into space. Southwestern US, with Las Vegas, NV in foreground, taken by X-15 Hycon HR-236 Camera during flt. 2 …

The X-15 is mainly a cylindrical fuselage, 49 feet 2 inches long. "Wing root" fairings begin just aft of the cockpit and extend nearly the entire length of the fuselage on each side. From these protrude stubby wings spanning 22 feet 4 inches and horizontal stabilizers.

2023年10月13日 · On Oct. 15, 1958, the first X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft rolled out of its factory. A joint project among NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy, the X-15 greatly expanded our knowledge of flight at speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes above 250,000 feet.

2025年2月2日 · The X-15 program primarily used single type of aircraft: the North American X-15 and the X-15A-2, a modified version of the second X-15 aircraft, was delivered to NASA in February 1964. As reported by NASA the X-15A-2 was modified with external fuel tanks and a 28-inch fuselage extension for liquid hydrogen.

The Air Force contract with North American Aviation included a ground based analog computer flight simulator that included a realistic X-15 cockpit, and the complete X-15 flight control system including all cables, push rods, bell cranks, hydraulics, and control surface masses.

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 airplane.

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, and unique side fairings that extended along the side of the fuselage. The X-15 weighed about 14,000 lb empty and approximately 34,000 lb at launch.

Using the F-107 fighter and a spring-mounted pivoting slide projector in a fairly accurate replication of the X-15’s pitch dynamics while evaluating the X-15s side located controller. Pitch angle was projected as a line on the screen, and pitching motions were also recorded by the oscillograph recorder next to the slide projector.

2010年8月28日 · The X-15 remains the fastest and highest flying manned aircraft ever flown, and is regarded by many as the most important research plane in history. The X-15 emerged from a combined US Air Force and US Navy request for a research aircraft to reach altitudes of 250,000 ft and speeds exceeding Mach 6.