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rdfs:comment | - The North American X-15 was a single seat aero-space plane developed to investigate flight at hypersonic speeds.
- The X-planes were and stillare are a series of experimental United States aircraft and rockets, used to test and evaluate new technologies and aerodynamic concepts. They have an X designator, which indicates the research mission within the US system of aircraft designations. Most of the X-planes have been operated by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) or, later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), often in conjunction with the United States Air Force. The majority of X-plane testing has occurred at Edwards Air Force Base.
- The North American X-15 was a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft. The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the 1960s, reaching the edge of outer space and returning with valuable data used in aircraft and spacecraft design. As of September 2015, the X-15 holds the official world record for the highest speed ever recorded by a manned, powered aircraft. It could reach a top speed of mile per hour (km/h), or Mach 6.72.
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lists | - *List of rocket aircraft
*List of X-15 flights
*List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
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Name | - History of the Air Force, 1954-1964: From Missile Development to Space
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Type | - Experimental high-speed rocket-powered research aircraft
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Description | - "X-15 Space Record: Plane Flown To 59-mile Mark"
- "Nuclear Navy: First Polaris A-Sub Sails On Ocean Patrol"
- "Space Triumph: Discoverer Capsule Recovered From Orbit"
- "X-15 Aloft: First Free Flight Of Manned Space Plane"
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type of jet | - liquid propellant rocket engine
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engine (jet) | - Reaction Motors XLR99-RM-2
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ID | - 1959-06-11
- 1960-08-15
- 1960-11-17
- 1962-07-19
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similar aircraft | - *Bell X-2
*Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket
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abstract | - The X-planes were and stillare are a series of experimental United States aircraft and rockets, used to test and evaluate new technologies and aerodynamic concepts. They have an X designator, which indicates the research mission within the US system of aircraft designations. Most of the X-planes have been operated by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) or, later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), often in conjunction with the United States Air Force. The majority of X-plane testing has occurred at Edwards Air Force Base. Some of the X-planes have been well publicized, while others, such as the X-16, have been developed in secrecy. The X-15 was an attempt at hyper-sonic edge-of-space aeronautics.
- The North American X-15 was a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft. The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the 1960s, reaching the edge of outer space and returning with valuable data used in aircraft and spacecraft design. As of September 2015, the X-15 holds the official world record for the highest speed ever recorded by a manned, powered aircraft. It could reach a top speed of mile per hour (km/h), or Mach 6.72. During the X-15 program, 13 flights by eight pilots met the Air Force spaceflight criterion by exceeding the altitude of mile (km), thus qualifying these pilots as being astronauts. The Air Force pilots qualified for astronaut wings immediately, while the civilian pilots were eventually awarded NASA astronaut wings in 2005, 35 years after the last X-15 flight. The only Navy pilot in the X-15 program never took the aircraft above the requisite 50 mile altitude and so as a result, never earned himself astronaut wings. Of the 199 X-15 missions, two flights (both by Joseph A. Walker) qualified as true space flights per the international (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) definition of a spaceflight by exceeding kilometer (mi) in altitude.
- The North American X-15 was a single seat aero-space plane developed to investigate flight at hypersonic speeds.
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