North American X-15 Story
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Sooner Boomer
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That picture looks like the world's biggest ball point pen (certainly the fastest).
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/87711main_H-374.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/87711main_H-374.pdf
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Too bad,it was excellent. It looked like very well done original content, but it of course had to use footage that could not have come from the video's creator. Maybe a copyright issue.
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I can see it still.
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Works fine here.
I remember seeing a video about the X15 maybe two decades ago. Might have been an episode of Wings on the Discovery Channel. Anyway it showed one of the planes after it landed setting a new speed record. The skin on the rudder was burnt off, and the frame was hanging on by a thread (literally). That plane was pushed to the limit, and the pilot was lucky it did not breakup in flight. Sobering stuff.
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...I've always wondered if one of the reasons that thing had skis instead of tires is the temperatures were so high at the back end that no tire could ever have survived. Anyone got a confirmation of that theory?
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Reason for skids discussed briefly in this document....
https://history.nasa.gov/x15conf/design.html
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