@unitedfront_: X-15 hypersonic rocket aircraft being launched at 45,000ft from a B-52 "mothership." Nearly 200 flights were made between 1959-1968 which helped pave the way for space flight. Multiple X-15s were made, the fastest reaching Mach 6.7 or 4,520 mph. #military #nasa #airforce #aviation #aviationlovers

ZAZA :

Neil Armstrong earned his Naval Aviator wings in August 1950 at age 19/20 after training in the Aviation Midshipman Program at NAS Pensacola. He qualified in carrier landings, flew 78 combat missions in the Korean War, and later became a civilian test pilot for NACA/NASA testing the X-15, leading to his selection as an astronaut in 1962.

Ps_17 :

40 years ago btw

Snufkin :

F-15 and X-15 my two favorite planes

ㅤ. :

Yo how much Mach was it going?

SHAKA AYULI :

how them shits be landing??

Sawgrassassassin :

Just imagine what we have now that we don’t know about

☆ ✙ ERIKA ✙ ☆ :

b52:fire fox4

cw_1876 :

Windex_cleaner :

Godspeed

banphottamon :

Neil Armstrong

_Tochka :

X43 is faster

Diogenes :

my neighbor as a teen was directly invovled with the X15 project(s)

☦︎ :

NASA was on another lvl back then

🫥 :

music name?

JDeWitt12 :

I bet when that rocket kicked on, the adrenaline 🤌🏻🤌🏻

威 :

🇵🇦Daniel_Escobar🇨🇴 :

en esos años tenían esta tecnología....que habrá ahora ? 😳😳👍

cw_1876 :

bombom :

кстати технически это не самолёт

Ishimi Yokoyama :

fastest manned aircraft from NASA btw, around mach 6?

StrandedInBliss :

4520 mph

🇮🇹𝑨𝒊𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆_𝟏𝟏𝑰𝒕 :

Where do you even find these Clips i tried to make an edit but the Clips were not as good as these

cephirothxv11 :

Y know what....Bring back Bell Labs

MonkDraws :

crazy how they did this before the 2000s

cooper :

Skating on atmosphere