World's fastest plane could have reached New York from London in 45 minutes
For nearly a decade, the X-15 - the fastest flying manned aircraft ever made - completed 199 missions at record breaking ...
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World's fastest plane could have gone from London to New York in under an hour
The record-breaking NASA/USAF X-15, the fastest plane ever built, could blaze through the skies at a staggering 4,520mph, ...
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Lockheed X-24C: The Hypersonic Mach 8 Plane Explained in 3 Words
The X-15 was the vaunted hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft that the USAF and NASA operated. The X-15 was a remarkable machine, depicted recently in the film First Man, in a recounting of an ...
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These 3 American Aircraft Redefined What It Meant to Fly “Fast”
Let’s take a look at a few of the fastest American aircraft ever ... For propulsion, the X-15 initially relied upon two Reaction Motors XLR11 liquid-propellant rocket engines, which provided ...
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Old telemetry dish, pedestal receive new home at Edwards
What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, as well as many experimental aircraft, were tracked ...