Neil Armstrong's Perilous X-15 Test Flight - Decades TV Network
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Before becoming the first man to walk on the moon Neil Armstrong was a proven test pilot for NASA. On April 20, 1962, Armstrong experienced a harrowing flight, testing the new X-15. It was a plane designed to go higher than any other. In 1959, the new plane would drop from a B-52 bomber at 30,000 feet to go straight up. On that flight in 1962, Armstrong reached speeds five times greater than the speed of sound and an altitude of nearly 200,000 feet. But the plane was pointed in the wrong direction that caused it to literally bounce off the atmosphere. It threw Armstrong off course, his only option was to free fall and find a landing space in a dry lake bed nearly 50 miles from his intended destination of Edwards Air Force base.
His X-15 bounced off the atmosphere, his Gemini spacecraft did a freestyle breakdance in orbit, and then he becomes the first person in history to set foot on another celestial body. He had quite a life! I'd rather be him than any rapper, singer or actor of today!
@Inyalabudbud Punjabbidaliwad he wasn't shy he was just a very nice human being burdened to live with the lie of moon landing through out his life.
@@Addy-745 How can you idiots really believe that. Dummy don't you think our enemy's like Russia that has all the capabilities to track a spacecraft to the Moon and back. Would have been the first to bring to light that the United States of America faked it dumbass.!!!!
@@Addy-745 Don't be dumb. This website provides fairly irrefutable proof of the landing. See the match between the Japanese radar data's estimate of the lunar surface and that shown in an Apollo 11 photo.
www.universetoday.com/15579/japanese-selene-kaguya-lunar-mission-spots-apollo-15-landing-site-images/
Lines and Circles It didn’t really bounce off the atmosphere. Watch Scott Manleys video on this.
Don’t forget his last second ejection from the practice LEM “flying bedstead”
Buzz Aldrin himself said Neil Armstrong was the best pilot he ever knew, and when you look at how many things went wrong on so many of his flights and the fact that he still completed all of them really shows this
This scene in First Man is so awesome
it was one of many scenes of insane fictional vibration
no one cares
@@nutsackmania Was it only the vibration that was fictional? It says in the movie it was 1961....was that a different mission than this one?
nutsackmania Neil called the turbulence on that flight the worst he had ever experienced in (on) a B-52. So yes it’s realistic
nutsackmania from the film making experience. The intensity of the vibrations may not be realistic by it really puts you into the seat. Not every movie has to be 100% true to life ultra accurate non fiction. If I wanted that I’d go watch a shitty history channel scene recreation with the same bullshit color contrast and vignette with whoosh sound effects. Creative license. Like light sabers would literally cause fusion reactions the moment they slice through anything or something if we actually sat down and tried to make everything super realistic.
3:22 "Where he made an eventual safe landing." But the clip there was a crash landing by Jack McKay in November 1962.
Rip
Pilots, as most of us know, are made of pretty strong, stern stuff. You've likely heard airline pilots remaining calm in testing circumstances. Then there are fighter and test pilots, people who are uncommonly gifted and highly skilled.
Then there are the astronauts, the best of the best, the crème de la crème, as they say. Of that elite group, the Apollo astronauts faced the most daunting challenges, with death at almost every turn. And Neil Arnstrong was at the very top.
Nx Doyle That was all definitely “the right stuff,” but the Armstrong incident that always impressed me the most was the day he was making a routine practice session on NASA's lunar module simulator, the Flying Bedstead. This crazy contraption was insanely unstable, and it got away from him that day. He hung on, trying to get it back under control until the last possible moment when, a couple of seconds away from death, he ejected safely. Then he calmly gathered up his gear, went back to his office, and started catching up on his paperwork...
Neil had a close call during a strafing mission in Korea also...his Panther jet struck a anti- aircraft cable which tore off a large section of its wing but be still managed to fly the stricken aircraft back to the carrier before ejecting.
He is, and will always be, my hero.
Always was my hero too!
Hommage à M Neil Armstrong, un homme, un aventurier, plus qu'un exemple pour nous tous. Cet homme est extraordinaire.
Wow. I remember watching an X-15 film in Fiji as a little boy in the early 60s. Now I've spent most of my working life in aviation and fly gliders for fun. These guys helped sow the seed in a young boy's mind, along with the RNZAF Sunderlands thundering over our house at 300' and landing on the blue sea outside the school, trailing a white streamer as they touched the water. How lucky I've been.
What a remarkable human being on so many levels.
They don’t make them like him anymore
The X15 was my favorite as a young lad, I salute him and all who created such a badass skycraft
I also thought The X-15 was the coolest thing in the world. I would have been 12 when this happened.
He also had a near disastrous flight on Gemini 8...they experienced some control thruster malfunctions and got into a gimble lock situation that resulted in the capsule spinning out of control...if Neil hadn't been cool as a cucumber that could have very easily ended in two dead astronauts.
Neil also ejected from the lunar landing trainer. ruclips.net/video/BkIwHkwh3Ws/видео.html . He also hand flew the Lunar Module because the original landing site was not suitable. This was low fuel, critical situation.
Steve, Gemini 8 never experienced a Gimbal lock since the Gemini spacecraft Inertial unit used 4 gimbals for the platform.
It was only the Apollo guidance system that used 3 Gimbals and had to deal with the potential of lining up the axis’ and “locking” the platform and losing alignment.
With a fourth gimbal, the locking problem disappears.
@@Stepclimb I stand corrected...I was using "gimbal lock" as a generic term for being in a life threatening spin, which Gemini 8 certainly was.
Thank You Neil Armstrong.
He accelerated TO 5 times the speed of sound...... not "accelerated AT 5 times the speed of sound.
RIP Neil. Your greatness lives on.
Just more evidence of what an incredibly brave man he was and how much his bravery has contributed to aviation and space exploration. A true US hero!
Neil you are such a truly one big step for mankind and such an inspiration.
A real man
Until 2004, the X-15 was one of just 8 vehicles to carry man into space, and the only one with a plane as an effective 1st Stage booster. (R-7, Redstone, Atlas, Titan II, Saturn 1-B, Saturn V, the Space Shuttle, and of course, the X-15)
Oh hey, it’s legendary anchorman Bill Kurtis!
That was the question. I just posed. Scroll to the comments and found yours. Yeah, it sounds like Bill Kurtis. I grew up in Chicago and saw him several times on the street. Really nice guy. Him and Walter Jacobson classic team back when news was news not political opinions.
@@WiliiamNoTell A Chicago legend up there with Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly.
Neil Armstrong is a true hero
Man with guts, and happy, kind of change after the moon leap.
The X15 didnt have a tail camera.
“Accelerated at five times the speed of sound”. Wow. That’s what I call five times the speed of sound.
I understand now it was basically a rocket that was fitted with some fins for glide landing.
The acceleration with the big motor was so intense, one of the pilots said that it was the only aircraft he'd flown where he was glad when the engine shut down. It was a short break though. As soon as the X-15 started back down through the atmosphere, the pilots had to deal with high g 'eyeballs out' deceleration.
Very cool thanks for posting
I didn’t realise the X-15s flights were of such short duration. Which suggests that when the X-15 used up its fuel, it must have fallen (glided) back to earth like a stone.
Neil Armstrong sure was a “steely eyed missile man.”🤙🏻
Just saw a wild video of one of his x15 flights where he encounters a ufo.
Me too😮
No, actually you didn’t. But thanks for playing.
Neil Armstrong was an example of a true spirited American, he truly beleivied in all that is American! His country ripped his sole out!
Can’t imagine the type of human it takes to do this 🥰
Who's here after July 20 2019?
Pranav Gummaluri 🙋
That explanation was 100% wrong. He was testing The NEW control systems and pulled up hard after going nose down a little bit…. However he was watching the G forces gauge and went out into space and bounced off the atmosphere passing the point of turn around. However he managed to glide back but ended up about 15 miles short of his original landing zone. Where did you get this explanation Wikipedia?!!
So brave
Who's here after First man?
Me
I’m not, but what a great book.
Interessante mesmo . Isso é uma ideia brilhante .
flying that thing ..oh my..true grit - wow
To the narrator, Bill Curtis, formerly of CBS News, Chicago. The X-15 had a rocket engine, singular. Not rocket boosters, plural. The X-15 was dropped from the wing of a B-52 not because it was too small, but because it was safer, and gave more mission options.
Actually the first X-15 flights used two XLR-11 four nozzle engines. Same engine the X-1 used.
@@Gromit801 , I know. The XLR-99 wasn't ready yet, so they went with the two X-1 rockets. But don't tell that to Bill Curtis. The guy is already insufferable.
Elite Engineer + Elite Athlete + Nerves of Steel = Neil Armstrong.....
fasteddie4145 don't forget the gigantic brass balls
Neil Armstrong was not an elite athlete. In fact, he shunned physical fitness workouts. His theory was he only had so many heartbeats and he wasn't going to waste any on just working out. As for the elite engineer with nerves of steel - absolutely!
Lee Jackson can just forget the silly, lame ancient “balls” jokes/ remarks? Thanks, not unique, funny, or interesting, been done about three trillion times in RUclips comments.
@@DoctorShocktor yeah, you know, brass balls. Armstrong liked to hang some brass balls on the rearview mirror of the X15 for good luck. What brass balls were you thinking about?
Steely eyed missile man.
Amazing!... RIP legend! 👍✈️🚀
Seems like whatever Neil flew it was an event. I like the story about him and Chuck Yeager getting the plane stuck in the mud.
Chuck Yeager....Your never really stuck until you've been at full military power for 15 minutes😂
i wonder if an original photo of Neil standing next to and seated in the x15 that day is worth any money?
Yeah , he almost made it to Pasadena that day
I think the first "space (positioning) thrusters" for future space flights, space craft maneuvering, such as for craft dockings and the moon landings, was tested at high altitude on these planes. Space suit tests was probably done also.
What about the UAP he encountered when he broke through the earths atmosphere, right before he started his descent back to earth?
Neil Armstrong is an inspiration. Something interesting: have some of you heard of the story,that on one of these 7 or 9 missions he encountered an UFO? I came by that story by chance and it was a video here in you tube called something like "they lie above" or something like that. It was strange video.. most strange was the redaction. I was just wandering, if any of you have heard or know this story and say if it could be believed or more likely not? :)
Spectacular. 👏👏
cant remember his name RIP my hero is still setting records in the x15 he is still flying
Hay un video de la nasa donde cuando strong está en el espacio se le acerca un OVNI que tenía tentáculos, y se ve que lo agarra pero esta medio censurado
I wonder what would have happened if some sort of glitch accidentally put him into orbit🤷🏻 What would they have done?
There are those that say the X flights had more to do with intercepting UFOs in orbit than science. Though certainly they did indeed yield vast amounts of scientific knowledge....
3:21 a very very safe landing for an x-15
In 12 minutes bro was at 30000 feet in the air, in outer space and then on the ground
Great video... The video (3:15) says Armstrong DID land at Edwards AF base.. The written description say he landed 50 miles from Edwards.. Which is correct?
The description is right. At that distance, he was too far to make it back to Edward's, so he had to land somewhere else
Armstrong was originally supposed to land at Rogers Dry Lake, overshot, pulled a u-turn near Pasadena, and landed instead at Rosamond Dry Lake. Both Rogers and Rosamond are two separate landing sites located within Edwards Air Force Base, about 8 miles apart from one another.
The narrator sounds like a younger version of that auxiliary voice in wait wait don’t tell me
who took the footage of neal stepping onto the moon?
What kind of radiationdose did he recivie you think?
Landing on the moon for first time was easier than landing X15
The joke afterwards was that Neil looked out the window looking for Edwards Dry Lake and instead saw the Rose Bowl.
That is the hardest landing iv ever seen
They made 199 flights in the X-15 and that may not be the actual Landing. In fact it is probably not
I did hear that he overshot the runway one flight.
Is the narrator Bill Kurtis from Chicago CBS News?
What does that mean, "bounced off the atmosphere"?
just like skipping a rock on water
Yeah, that shit reached near vacuum and space line.
Can’t Steering because thin Air?
These popularizations often aren't researched very well. Edwards is where he was supposed to land. Also there's an inference here and other places that he made some kind of mistake in flying which is not the case. this was experimental flight and he was testing a new flight control system. Quoting the Smithsonian Magazine article about it "The MH-96, system was a G-limiting device designed to keep the rocket plane from exceeding 5 Gs. This ballooning continued as he waited to see the G limiter kick in, which it never did." In fact, he never exceeded 4 G's. As sometimes happens in experimental flight the craft didn't respond the same way as it had in simulations and therefore it skidded along "Merrily on its way" as he described it, at 200,000 ft Plus until he used the thrusters to point the nose down into a ballistic trajectory to get back in the atmosphere as the X-15 lost momentum. Even though he ended up going over the San Gabriel mountains and probably had the Rose Bowl Underneath Him keep in mind that this happened at extremely high altitude. He was still at 100,000 ft as he turned over the San Gabriel's. They joke about him almost ending up in the Joshua trees when in fact he landed where he was supposed to and the flight logs show that he had to use the speed brakes as he got close to Landing. It was a normal Landing. History remembers him as the first man to step on the moon whereas I remember him as the first pilot to land on the Moon. He landed on the moon while standing with computer alarms going off all over the place and had to extend the landing over a crater ending up with something over 10 seconds worth of fuel left. Neil had Mad Skills as a pilot and was never going to make a mistake because of panic. He had learned long ago to keep problem solving until the very end, just as he did on this flight.
I believe Chazelle already watched this video before.
He got lucky
Absolute true pioneers
3:29 Narrater: "Where he eventually made a successful landing...." Video: Shows X15 crashing.....
To fly past 10 football fields in a second is hard to comprehend. Idiots today think dunking a basketball is the greatest.
1962 - obviously we still need B-52's Yup
I'm thinking a lot of what's being said here is BS. Armstrong DID have maneuverability capability because he had attitude thrusters. His "only" option - the dry lake bed - was the primary option. He definitely had other options if he chose to... he had choices. He ended up in space because he was testing the G-force control systems (while the rocket was still firing) and didn't pay attention to the fact his nose was up.
So apparently, back then, either the press wasn't told everything, they didn't understand everything, or they thought we wouldn't be able to understand everything. I'm thinking a little of each.
Hmmm other pilots claim this flight...One in particular flew that flight in the 2 seater
"The first person to walk on the Moon", no you mean the first man to walk on the Moon.
The x15 was a hot rod son of a bitch
Another movie gone. Really the concern for your students got underwhelming.
So he bounced off the firmament. Yes ???
Very hectic vid here. Whatever this object was would have been a pants pissing sight to see, judging by the size and morphing of whatever it was ruclips.net/video/Nh-2LmnT1uU/видео.htmlsi=rzhb7htQajrhvMX2
The B-52 dropped the X-15 at 45K feet, not 30K. And the decision to drop the X-15 from a mother plane had nothing to do with it being so small. They dropped the X-1, X-1A, X-2 and X-15 from a mother plane because the landing gear could not handle the fuel loads. And before you tell me the X-1 did take off from the ground on a few occasions, stop typing. Those flights did not have the full fuel load.
rong
Did it occur to you to check you spelling? You can do that, then explain how I'm "rong". Wow.
lmao toxic, but good info to know
Rawng ! The reason for the air drop was to avoid building a large aircraft capable of holding enough fuel for the long climb. The X-15 would have to tow a Fruehauf fuel tanker to get to 200,000 ft from a ground level launch.
Actually, you are partly correct. The X-15 landing gear was designed for an empty weight configuration landing (lightweight being the primary consideration). Also, to build a landing gear capable of withstanding ground level take-off speeds would have been very heavy.
To keep the aircraft small in size (for speeds they wanted to achieve) and lightweight (for the altitudes they wanted) an air drop from 45k' was the obvious choice.
The X-15 used skids for the rear landing gear, so having it take off from the ground was never even considered. And you may recall one X-15 split in half when a mission was aborted with an almost full fuel load. And yes, I knew about the advantages of an air drop. I was point out the error in the narration. I'm not feeling Rawng at all.
What a horrible narration script! Full of inaccuracies and outright lies for dramatic effect. The X-15 program is a crown jewel in 20th century aviation and worth proper study, this film should NOT be part of said study.
9 down votes? There should be a rule where you have to justify your vote.
Peter McGill Yes. Down votes always look mean. Down voting should open a dialog, radio buttons for common reasons, and Other which opens a textbox to explain themselves. One of my downvotes used a few times is music choice of the clip creator, but it only shows as a generic down vote, whereas I would much rather explain myself.
Bouncing off the Atmosphere? Dont they fly in that stuff? He couldn't manover because of the thin Atmosphere??
Dont ROCKETS do that in SPACE ?%?? He smiled way better in those days.
They had reaction control thrusters for when they got too high up and the atmosphere was too thin for the control surfaces to react to the atmosphere.
Reaction jets can't turn the aircraft. With no thrust because he was out of fuel for the main engine, you can't give yourself the moment to help you turn until you get back into thicker air where the control surfaces can work.
The reaction control jets can only orient the plane. Much like the ones in the space shuttle. You're moving forward, but when you rotate the craft, you're still moving in the same direction.
There was a fatal test flight of the X-15 where the guy was actually turned backwards until he recovered, oriented it into a dive, but it broke up at high altitude.
At 200000' the atmosphere is 10000 times less dense than it is at 30000'.
@@brothergrimaldus3836 Interesting, still wasnt it about "bouncing off"?? And not about control?
"reaching the edge of outer space and returning with valuable data used in aircraft *and spacecraft design.* /
As the X-15 also had to be controlled in an environment where there was too little air for aerodynamic flight control surfaces, it had a reaction control system (RCS) that used rocket thrusters.[10]
The Earth is flat.
This 1960s propaganda would be insulting were it not so hilarious. The bounce off the atmosphere "threw him 50 miles off course" ???? Yet he still landed exactly where he was supposed to? Give us a break !
He "bounced off the atmosphere". Could that be the firmament???
How do you know there's such a thing as 'the firmament'?
No, considering that there were flights which reached a higher altitude.
Probably
@@shaqmcflyy9380 Is your response in relation to the 'firmament'? You actually think that there is 'probably' a firmament? Based on what information do you make this assessment?
No, this is reality not fairy tales. Go away
Wrong
I know Neil Armstrong felt he was being patriotic in serving his country, but having to lie about the moon landing for the rest of his life must have been difficult for the man he was.
nobody's biting on your troll
Skyhigh Photography he never had to lie because he went there himself in 1969
Yeah, NASA was so slick in pulling off that fraud on the world that they decided to do it six more times.
Chris Wassell lol well considering it has been proven hundreds of times that they went too the moon, they didn't fraud anyone.
I was being sarcastic. I believe the US put men on the moon. Those who don't need to do more critical thinking.
THE EARTH IS FLAT
Crap!
Your whole existence is flat...
Your brain is pan as a flatcake.
ALSO IS YOUR HEAD ... FLAT HEAD
Funny! I only read the comments to see if some blind Jack Ass actually missed those shots showing the curvature of the earth & said something really intellectually profound like "Duh Earth is Flat " I was really hoping I wouldn't, oh well. I feel really sorry for these flat earth fake moon landing dopes. You are missing out on so much of life!
The earth is flat and stationary 👍
And why should we give that comment any credibility?
As is your brain .
You have a flat encephalogram
No one cares about your idiotic trolling, your life is a failure
WHERE'S THE FULL FLIGHT VIDEO?
This plane flew at 67 miles high, had loads of on board cameras yet no full flight videos exist.
Because EARTH IS FLAT my friends 😉🥰🙏
Pretty sure there are a lot of videos from airplanes flying high showing the earth is round and of course the ISS the satellites and Voyager 1&2. So no we have plenty of images proving the earth is round. We actually knew that from thousands of years ago. Ancient Greeks proved it, the discovery of Colombus proved it and logic and common sense would too. Since all the planets in the solar system are round
For years now we know the earth is round. Lets say you have another theory, that the earth is flat you have to provide enough evidence for us to take what you say seriously, so right now I view your comment as a joke.
@@rogersmith7525 nothing to say?
Look, I seen the original video, a full 12 minute flight, I'm not making a claim I'm telling you and everyone this earth is flat as fact.
This video and all the others have been cut and doctored, the x-15 had cameras all over it pointing in all directions and every camera angle showed flat earth. Also, the camera quality has been very much degraded, the onboard cameras were very good quality.
Man I'm not looking to make anyone look a fool, these deception masters had me fooled for years, I want everyone to know the truth.
Now they're pulling the same BS today with India saying they landed on the moon yet the picture they showed the world of earth is the exact same fraudulent picture NASA used in 1969, same cloud formations the lot.
Tje globe model comes straight out of the satanic kabbalah of Babylon, the same book the Zionists Jewish Talmud derives from. Helos = the sun god Ra aka Nimrod of Babylon, saying that all plants revolve around the sun is to say everything revolves around satan.
Planets according to etymology = wandering stars, the sun science says is a star, we do not live on a burning mass. I swear this earth is a plane, there is much more land to earth that is being hidden by a globe belief. If there's more land then there's more resources and the oil tycoons can't claim scarcity and so the price of oil and other natural resources would plummet.
We're not allowed to go beyond the 60° mark on the southern hemisphere. We're kept prisoners here by the worlds authorities, I wish I wasn't telling the truth but it is what it is and truth doesn't give a damn for opinions 🤝👍🏼