Still the fastest airplane ever flown, the North American X-15 earned its title 40 years ago ... caused the two thrusters on the left side of the nose to fire. Eric Long/NASM The 60,000-pound ...

Although the movie X-15, starring Charles Bronson and Mary Tyler ... Page 91, Scene 208: Two planes flying upside down and side by side during a test operation is rather far fetched and not ...

At the height of the Cold War during the 1960s the U.S. Air Force and NASA tested an experimental rocket-powered research aircraft code-named X-15.The X-15 experiments were conducted at Edwards ...