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    The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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  • X-15 is a 1961 American aviation drama film that presents a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket aircraft program, the test pilots who flew...
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    90 of the North American X-15 was a research flight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force on July 19, 1963. It was the first of two X-15 missions that...
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  • North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and built several notable aircraft and spacecraft. Its products...
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    The flights of the North American X-15, an experimental American spaceplane built by North American Aviation and operated by the United States Air Force...
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    The North American X-15's Flight 188 on October 3, 1967, was a record-setting flight. William J. Knight took the X-15A-2 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft...
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    X-15 Flight 3-65-97, also known as X-15 Flight 191 (being the 191st free flight of the X-15), was a sub-orbital spaceflight of the North American X-15...
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    The North American X-10 (originally designated RTV-A-5) was an unmanned technology demonstrator developed by North American Aviation. It was a subscale...
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  • Flight 35 of the North American X-15 was a test flight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force on March 30, 1961. The X-15 was piloted by Joseph A. Walker...
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    X is an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles. The original members are vocalist Exene Cervenka, vocalist-bassist John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom...
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    The North American Mustang Mk.X, also known as the "Rolls-Royce Mustang" or Mustang X, was an experimental variant of the North American Mustang I, (factory...
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    (21,000 m) X-1A, X-1B, X-1C, X-1D: 90,000 ft (27,000 m) X-1E: 75,000 ft (23,000 m) Air Force Test Center Mach number North American X-15 XS-1 (spacecraft)...
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    The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft. Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best...
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  • North American X-15 is an American experimental hypersonic research aircraft. X15 or X-15 may also refer to: X-15 (band), an American rock band X-15 (film)...
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  • developed the Reaction Control System for the Mercury Spacecraft, North American X-15, and Bell Rocket Belt. The company was purchased in 1960 by Textron...
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  • Flight 62 of the North American X-15 was a sub-orbital spaceflight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force on 17 July 1962. The X-15 was piloted by astronaut...
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    Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Company to power the North American X-15 hypersonic research aircraft. It could deliver up to 57,000 lbf (250 kN)...
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    flight. Later X-planes supported important research in a multitude of aerodynamic and technical fields, but only the North American X-15 rocket plane of...
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  • X is a 2022 American slasher film written, directed, produced and edited by Ti West. It stars Mia Goth in dual roles: a young woman named Maxine, and an...
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    Michael J. Adams (category X-15 program)
    15, 1967) (Maj USAF) was an American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and USAF astronaut. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15...
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    "Indigenous peoples of the Americas". The term Amerindian, a portmanteau of "American Indian", was coined in 1902 by the American Anthropological Association...
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    It was later used as a chase plane for the North American X-15, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and North American XB-70 Valkyrie test programs. It was flown...
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    for North American X-15 and Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar programs. Lockheed YF-12 (1963) (USA). EWR VJ 101 (1963) (Germany). BAC TSR-2 (1964) (UK). North American...
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    of the most advanced of all the experimental rocket aircraft, the North American X-15. Two aircraft completed a total of 20 flights (27 June 1952 – 27...
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    of the world's population. In human geography, the terms "North America" and "North American" sometimes refer to just Canada, the United States, Mexico...
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    North American Aviation constructed the skin of the North American X-15 rocket-powered aircraft out of Inconel X/750 alloy. Rocketdyne used Inconel X-750...
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    DynaSoar. BOR-4 BOR-5 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 North American X-15 Silbervogel Goebel, Greg. "The X-15, Dyna-Soar, & The Lifting Bodies – [1.2] The USAF...
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    The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, then re-enters...
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    Joseph A. Walker (category X-15 program)
    fly an airplane to space. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and...
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    American mixed-power, high-performance, supersonic aerospace trainer that served as a low-cost astronaut training vehicle for the North American X-15...
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