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 Dryden Home > Collections > Movie Home > X-15 > Movie # EM-0033-17 |
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X-15A-2 damage after mach 6.7 flight |
| Movie Number |
EM-0033-17
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| Movie Date |
October 3, 1967
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| Formats | 160x120 Quicktime movie (1.8 MB) 320x240 Quicktime movie (3.5 MB) 480x360 Quicktime movie (5.3 MB) 640x480 Quicktime movie (8.8 MB) |
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Still photos of this aircraft are available in several resolutions at http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-15/index.html |
| Description |
This 47 second movie clip shows X-15A-2 damage after a mach 6.7 flight. The X-15 had its share of emergency landings and accidents, but only two produced serious injuries or death. On Nov. 9, 1962, Jack McKay experienced an engine failure and landed at Mud Lake, Nev. The landing gear collapsed, flipping him and the aircraft on its back. Although he recovered from his injuries sufficiently to fly again, he eventually had to retire because of them. On Nov. 15, 1967, on Michael Adams seventh flight, he entered a spin from which he was able to recover but could not bring it out of an inverted dive because of a technical problem with the adaptive flight control system. He died in the resultant crash of the X-15 number three. |
| Keywords | X-15; external; fuel tanks; rocket powered research aircraft; North American Aviation; XLR-99 rocket engine; Thiokol Chemical Corp.; high-speed & high-altitude flight; B-52 air launch; 4520 mph; Mach 6.70; 354200 ft (altitude); 67 miles (altitude); full-scale ablation X-15; XLR-99; XLR-11; North American Aviation; Reaction Motors; Thiokol; reaction control system; B-52; Space Shuttle; Edwards Air Force Base; Dryden Flight Research Center; John Becker; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Navy; NASA; A. Scott Crossfield; Joseph A. Walker; Robert M. White; Forrest S. Petersen; John B. McKay; Robert A. Rushworth; Neil A. Armstrong; Joe H. Engle; Milton O. Thompson; William J. Knight; William H. Dana; Michael J. Adams |
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