Awesome little tribute to the days when this country had a manned aerospace program. Good Job! When are we going to lead the world technologically again instead of just talking about the glory days when we actually were?
I suggest reading At the Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program Milton Orville Thompson. He was one of the pilots. Loads of great stories and facts about the X-15.
Too bad we now know everything and there are no more real men like this who are on the quest for knowledge. I wonder what the pilot thought and felt as the X-15 dropped from the BUFFs wing, and then when the rocket motor kicked him in the ass. Oh, that I would have been part of this exploration.
There was no X-15 pilot by that name. Scott Crossfield was the company pilot for North American. He was tasked with showing that the craft was flight worthy before turning it over to the Air Force and NASA. So calling him the mail pilot is a bit of a stretch. He did beat the speed record set by Mel Apt in the X-2 (in which he died), becoming briefly the Fastest Man Alive, again. First time for him was in the D-558-2, March 2.
The video is made up of multiple flights, not any one in particular. I do not know who is the pilot on any of the flights.
Scott Crossman?
Awesome little tribute to the days when this country had a manned aerospace program. Good Job!
When are we going to lead the world technologically again instead of just talking about the glory days when we actually were?
Just saw this... matched nicely, good historic and epic video of one hot ship... if only we had these sort of aerospace programs today.
Rip Michael Adams..the only x15 pilot killed.men of great courage..bless you all.
Some pretty neat stuff. I love videos on aircraft and space, nice soundtrack for the video. Good job. Keep up the good work.
I suggest reading At the Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program Milton Orville Thompson. He was one of the pilots. Loads of great stories and facts about the X-15.
Cool video, The music matched up nicely.
Gotta go!
See ya!))))
Emphatic THUMBS DOWN to every person who separates this great piece of music as two separate songs on TH-cam. They should be ashamed!
Too bad we now know everything and there are no more real men like this who are on the quest for knowledge.
I wonder what the pilot thought and felt as the X-15 dropped from the BUFFs wing, and then when the rocket motor kicked him in the ass.
Oh, that I would have been part of this exploration.
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We really don't get it.
What did you do today.
I climbed to 80,000 ft & went mock 6.
"Oh".
What was the date of the flight and was that Wally Schirra at the controls? Thanks for the post!
Chuck Bauer The main pilot on the x-15 program was Scott Crossfield
There was no X-15 pilot by that name. Scott Crossfield was the company pilot for North American. He was tasked with showing that the craft was flight worthy before turning it over to the Air Force and NASA. So calling him the mail pilot is a bit of a stretch. He did beat the speed record set by Mel Apt in the X-2 (in which he died), becoming briefly the Fastest Man Alive, again. First time for him was in the D-558-2, March 2.