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'Edge of Space': Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video)
De Meuron is a Zurich Film Festival executive and former Roland Emmerich associate who injects this high-flying gem with ...
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Science: Missile Plane
Dyna-Soar is the U.S.’s closest approach to a true spaceship. The X-15 rocket plane will only cruise along the shoreline of space (80 to 90 miles up) at about 4,000 m.p.h. The astronaut in the ...
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The Lockheed XFC-130H: A Rocket-Propelled Transport Plane
Shockingly, initial tests in the fall of 1980 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida were promising. The plane took off like a ...
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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-24B, meanwhile, was an experimental aircraft that was designed to build and test lifting body ...
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'Edge of Space': Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video)
a professional pulse-pounding short film centered around a brave USAF test pilot recruited by NASA for a suborbital mission aboard the X-15 rocket-powered aircraft. Set in 1961, as the Cold War ...