Hypersonic! The Story of the North American X-15
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158007068X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A revision would benefit from Full-page size blueprints with dimensions & close ups of all the X-15 markings. (For scratch-built modeling purposes). Love the photos and the pilots first hand accounts of the flights that held surprises.I own quite a number of aviation books and is by far my favorite (along with the companion scrapbook). An excellent job!. Great book This is a fabulous book about the X-15, one of my favorite planes/spacecraft. It is full of beautiful illustrations and great text; it is an absolute must-have if you are in the least interested in the X-15 and the early space program.. The Definitive Story Today when the space shuttle is about the only advanced thing going, it is hard to imagine what was really going on almost fifty years ago. Then a remarkable airplane was built in a very short time and flew 199 times to set records that still stand.Funded by the Navy, Air Force and NASA, three X-15's were built. They carried pilots high enough to earn them astronauts wings and to set one speed record after another.Here in almost 300 pages is the complete story of the X-15 that starts with the conceptual blueprints of the four bidders (Bell, of the X-1 fame; Douglas, of the SkyRocket, Stiletto); Republic;
In the course of a 199 flights over a decade, the X-15 became the first manned aircraft to rocket past Mach 4, 5 and 6; soared some 67 miles above the Earth (earning a handful of its dozen pilots their Astronaut wings, though ironically not Neil Armstrong, later first to set foot on the Moon); and crucially gathered the cornerstone data that enabled the Space Shuttle's return from space a couple decades later. Rocket plane: The term now conjures images from vintage pulp sci-fi. Fueled by an obvious passion for their subject, the authors skillfully boil a daunting body of history, technical data, and personalities down into an eminen
Dennis R. Jenkins spent 30 years as an engineer and manager on the Space Shuttle Program and other space-related programs incuding the X-33, Orbital Space Plane, and the Crew Exploration Vehicle. Most recently he has served as an advisor and investigator on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board,
At the dawn of the 21st Century there seem to be a great interest in hypersonic flight. Over the course of ten years and 199 flights, pilots from the Air Force, Navy, and NASA would spend 85 minutes at hypersonic velocities flying to the edge of space.. This book is a tribute to the program, the airplanes, and the people who designed, maintained and flew the most successful of the X-planes. There had never been anything like the X-15; it had a million-horsepower engine and could fly twice as fast as a rifle bullet. For the most part this is related to a new generation of missiles - air-to-air and air-to-surface - that are being proposed as the next logical increment in weapons, although the designers of the forever-in-development replacement for the Space Shuttle also have a vested interest in hypersonic research. Nineteen years before Space Shuttle, the small, black, rocket-powered, bull