X-15 Featured Items
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Numerous books, publications, films, documentaries and other items about the legendary X-15 rocket plane are available. Following is a selection of most relevant items in three categories: If you know about other X-15 items that are not listed below, please submit them to us. |
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HYPERSONIC: The Story of the North American X-15Fueled by an obvious passion for their subject, the authors skillfully boil a daunting body of history, technical data, and personalities down into an eminently accessible chronicle of technical achievement and human bravery. "This is hands down the absolute best reference on the X-15 program, bar none..." - Internet Modeler Magazine.Buy from Amazon.com |
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X-15 Photo ScrapbookThis book is a collection of illustrations that were assembled for the book Hypersonic, the Story of the North American X-15, but would not fit into the finished work. Since many of these are significant and most have never before been published, it was decided to print this scrapbook as a companion volume to Hypersonic. With over 350 b/w and 50 color photos, this scrapbook provides an excellent visual look at a very exciting research program.Buy from Amazon.com |
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At the Edge of SPACE: The X-15 Flight ProgramThe author, Milton O. Thomson, one of the test pilots, traces the technical developments of the program, emphasizing the viewpoint of the men who (barely) controlled the unpredictable plane in the air. He demonstrates through a series of vivid anecdotes the effect of g forces, extreme vertigo and other mental and physical problems associated with supersonic flight. (Publishers Weekly, 1992)Buy from Amazon.com |
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Hypersonic Before the Shuttle: A Concise History of the X-15 Research AirplaneA NASA historical document covering the entire story of the X-15 program. By author Dennis R. Jenkins, an aerospace engineer who spent almost 20 years on the Space Shuttle program.Buy from Amazon.com Free PDF document from NASA |
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X-15 Diary: The Story of America's First Space ShipAuthor-reporter Richard Tregaskis spent time with the pilots, engineers, and other key personnel involved in the project. We learn of the years of planning and design, devastating onboard explosions, exhilarating triumphs, and, above all, the personal and professional sacrifices that paved the way for the enduring legacy of the blisteringly fast X-15 rocket plane.Buy from Amazon.com |
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X-15 Rocket Plane Pilot's Flight Operating ManualOriginally highly restricted, the manual was recently declassified and is here reprinted in book form. This affordable black and white facsimile has been reformatted. Care has been taken however to preserve the integrity of the text.Buy from Amazon.com |
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X-15: The NASA Mission ReportsAuthor, Robert Godwin, collection offers pilot biographies, NASA's semi-annual reports to Congress, flight manuals, the complete proposal that won North American Aviation the X-15 contract, flight logs, the USAF's formerly classified development plans, and more. The accompanying CD-ROM includes hundreds of photos and hours of MPEG video footage, featuring highlights like the pink-eraser X-15A-2 and Neil Armstrong's farewell voyage before he checked out to become a bona fide astronaut.Buy from Amazon.com |
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Chuck Yeager and the BELL X-1Not about the X-15 but contains rare information on the development of the Reaction Motors XLR-11 engine used in the original X-15 rocket aircraft. The Bell X-1 aircraft is the vehicle in which Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947.Buy from Amazon.com |
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X-15: The Adventures of Buck DannyThe 60's and 70's classic Belgium-French comic-strip adventure stories of super pilot Buck Danny dedicated an issue to the X-15. Buck Danny and his comrades from the United States Navy were always shown flying the most recent technology (in French).Buy from Amazon.com |
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X-15: The MovieA 1961 movie starring debutant Charles Bronson with a solid cast of characters by Mary Tyler Moore, Lizabeth Hush, Patricia Owens and James Stewart's narration. A story about the daily lives of X-15 test pilots and their families.Buy from Amazon.com |
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X-15: The Edge of SpaceThis 3-DVD set presents the most complete collection ever assembled of the X-15 flight program, with rare footage from over 50 (of the 199) specific flights, documentaries, engine testing, suit testing, and more. Over 10 hours of rare material.Buy from Amazon.com |
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Rocket ScienceAn exciting 12 part series examining rocket science and space discovery. Rocket Science is a unique look at the history of space exploration through personal interviews, never-before-seen film footage, and classified tours of top-secret facilities. One chapter is about the X-15.Buy from Amazon.com |
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Without Limits: Nasa Test ProjectsA fascinating view of the danger and innovation of pilots and engineers pushing the edge of the envelope. Behind-the-scenes footage at Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA's remote desert outpost in Southern California, where the world's top experimental flight researchers and pilots are developing cutting-edge technology and flight testing the world's most advanced aircraft. Presents interviews with X-15 pilots.Buy from Amazon.com |
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Faster than SoundAn episode of Nova documentaries series on the quest to fly an airplane faster than sound. The documentary begins in the final years of World War II, when fighter pilots began to notice that their airplanes began performing strangely as they began to attain great speeds during dives.Buy from Amazon.com |
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Battle of the X-PlanesThis episode of the NOVA documentaries series presents an inside look at the high-tech, high-stakes competition to create America's newest fighter plane. NOVA goes behind the doors of the world's two largest aerospace companies to record classified meetings, climbs into cockpits to fly the most revolutionary planes.Buy from Amazon.com |
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Behind the Scenes with the X-15This film uses footage from an old kinescope print of X-15 footage. The beginning of this film is comprised of footage of the X-15 being launched, a very cool view of the X-15 attached to the mothership in flight with the pilot onboard, the dropping of the X-15 without firing the engine, and chase planes following the X-15 to the ground.Buy from Amazon.com |
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X-15 Experimental AircraftA Revell® 1:72 plastic scale model of the X-15. An accurate depiction of the X-15A-2 with external fuel tanks and a detailed cockpit with control panel and clear windscreen. Includes a test pilot figure with astronaut uniform detail and authentic waterslide decals.Buy from Amazon.com |
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