The X-15 Rocket Plane

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Michelle Evans is the founder of Mach 25 Media and is an aerospace writer, photographer, and education specialist. She served in the U.S. Air Force working on nuclear missiles, is the producer of several documentaries about space exploration, and is a contributor to Space Daily, space.com, and Ad Astra. Joe H. Engle was the eighth pilot of the X-15 research aircraft and flew sixteen rocket plane missions. He later orbited the earth as the commander of the space shuttle Columbia and again with Discovery.

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The story of the X-15, the pioneering research flight program in the fifties and sixties, and its pilots.

Contenu

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Whole Nine Yards

2. A Record High

3. Gaining Speed

4. Naval Engagement

5. Changing Course

6. Straight and Steady

7. Skipping Out

8. On a Roll

9. Inconel Meets Celluloid

10. Fastest Man Alive

11. Chasing Experiments

12. In the Line of Duty

13. Snow at Edwards

Afterword

Glossary

Sources

Index