The Hunt for the X-15 Rocket Plane
The Hunt for the X-15 Rocket Plane
From 1959 to 1968, NASA operated three North American Aviation rocket planes to great effect. In 199 flights they generated over 700 technical papers on aerodynamics and set altitude and speed records for winged vehicles not exceeded until the space shuttle many years later. In 1993, our presenter, David Ball, organized a search in the...