X-15 Aircraft Moves Into New 4th Building
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2025
- Restoration crews towed the X-15 into the new fourth building today. This is the first aircraft to move into the building, which will open to the public in June 2016.
Retired NASA astronaut and the only surviving X-15 pilot, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Joe Engle speaks about his experience in the X-15 program.
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s new $40.8 million fourth building including aircraft such as SAM 26000 (Air Force One) and the only remaining XB-70 Valkyrie, will open to the public on June 8, 2016.
Saw this and got to be up close with it for about an hour in 2021. This Museum is the best I've ever been to
My favorite plane design. Who doesn't love the x-15?!
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It’s literally just a rocket plane, that has shit distance.
@@memezoffuckery3207 it definitely does but that doesn't stop it from being cool as hell.
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I had a long layover in Dayton and got over to the museum with the specific intent of seeing the X-15; I was unapologetically awestruck! I kept walking around it and taking pictures and even with all the other amazing aircraft to see, I probably could have spent all day next to my favorite airplane 🥹
Amazing machine, people and museum! Was so lucky to go once.
I was stationed at Edwards AFB in 1970 and saw what appeared to be a X-15 simulator or cockpit mockup sitting outside in a fenced surplus yard. Even at the time it seemed an ignominious end for such a glorious part of aerospace history.
Three built. Two left, X-15 no. 1 (66670) In the National Air and Space Museum and this one. 12 men flew the airplane(s), only one left: Joe Engle. Can't wait to see it in it's new Diggs this summer!
My favorite X plane. Nice to see the General!
The X-15 isn’t a plane, it’s a rocket, a marvel of rocket engineering
It's got wings and a tail, it's an aircraft. Albeit an unusual one!
imagine this flew until today
The way things were built back then it might have been possible
Wow, that must be amazing to see up close. One of our most beautiful achievements. Thank god we brought over those German rocket scientists after WW2.
so just out of curiosity... whats the "ball" directly over the XLR99 ???
It is a container for nitrogen gas, used to pressurize systems in the X-15. This was specifically added after the upgrade to the X-15A-2 with the external tanks since the tanks needed the extra nitrogen pressurization.
What are the chain noises in the background music lol
Get it flying again!
Beautiful! ;-)
a miracle of technology
I would change the tail number.
I don't know if I would have flown a bird with the ID of "666***". Those first three digits would have been a call off for me. I would have insisted on a different ID. But then, I'm not a hero as these guys were. They would never allow superstition to interfere with their goals.
It"s the demon lord buddy
The tail numbers of the X-15 were assigned in 1956. The complete tail number of this particular aircraft is 56-6671. None of the pilots ever had a problem with such a silly notion of the tail number being somehow evil.
Beautiful spaceplane
You see it in real and you know it was fast dam x bird allway remember the men who flue it. Godspeed
It's rocket with wings and canopy that's all not a plane fighter jet it's only for experience of experiment
God damn that's a sexy plane!
It runs out of fuel in about 2 minutes.
No, it's longest recorded flight time is around 11 minutes. It's all the same, not very practical.
@@ashishxthakur The X-15 was a research aircraft, not an operational fighter. It was immensely practical in that it provided information on hypersonic flight, unpowered landings, reentry heating, and a heck of a lot more over its 199 flights. Because of the X-15, the Space Shuttle was able to be built and flown for 30 years. Without the X-15 the Space Shuttle would have been a much different vehicle, and mot nearly as capable as it was.
The longest X-15 flight occurred on 20 April 1962, and was flown by Neil Armstrong when he inadvertently skipped back up out of the atmosphere. The total flight time was 12 minutes 28.7 seconds. The average flight time was approximately 10 minutes. At full thrust the XLR-99 rocket engine ran for just under 90 seconds, however, the X-15A-2 shown here had the added external tanks, which extended that burn time by about 60 additional seconds. The longest engine run occurred on 3 October 1967 at 2 minutes and 20.7 seconds using this aircraft. After engine burn out the rest of the flight was unpowered, all the way to landing. On that particular flight, for example, the flight lasted 8 minutes and 17 seconds, so nearly 6 minutes of that flight was unpowered.
Yeah, but then you get to glide down from the edge of space....
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Huh?
I understand that English may not be your first language, so you had a hard time expressing whatever it is that you were trying to express, but I think no matter what language, you should know how to punctuate, which would make your thoughts a lot more coherent.