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World's Fastest Airplane, the X-15, Marks Fiftieth Anniversary.

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-SEP-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: World's Fastest Airplane, the X-15, Marks Fiftieth Anniversary.(News)(Flight Test Historical Foundation)(Brief article)

Article Excerpt
On June 8, 1959, North American Aviation test pilot Scott Crossfield piloted the fifty-foot X-15 on its first glide flight landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards AFB, California. The X-15 was dropped from under the wing of a B-52 bomber at 38,000 feet over Edwards. The historic flight...

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