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The X-15 was a Starfighter in All But Name
The X-15 was a key bridge between conventional atmospheric flight and spaceflight. The North American X-15 is one of the most ...
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The U.S. Air Force Went to Space on the North American X-15
The X-15 is the only conventional aircraft that has ever been flown ... a test flight aboard the North American X-15. Before ever commanding a Gemini or Apollo mission, Armstrong was a test ...
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The X-15 was a Starfighter in All But Name
The North American X-15 is one of the most groundbreaking aircraft ever created in the history of aviation and space exploration. Developed in the late 1950s and flown throughout the 1960s ...
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World War II Aircraft
World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...