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Topic: X-15 at the National Air and Space Museum
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ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 03-11-2010 08:15 PM
   
Is the X-15 in the National Air and Space Museum the one Neil Armstrong flew? If so, he may be one of the few pilots that have two spacecraft they flew in the museum.
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BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 230
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 03-11-2010 08:27 PM
Yes, Armstrong piloted the X-15 tail #66670 that is in the Smithsonian three times, 11/30/1960, 12/9/1960 and 07/26/1962. He also Piloted X-15 #3 four times for a total of seven X-15 flights. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 03-12-2010 11:53 AM
Thanks for that information. I don't know about everyone else, but to me that must be something to walk into a museum like that and see two major pieces of aviation history with your name attached to it. |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 03-12-2010 03:45 PM
I have a real odd ball question. Are any of the suits that Armstrong wore on his X-15 flights on display? |
MarylandSpace
Member Posts: 1337
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Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 03-12-2010 11:57 PM
It seems to me that I was at a great lecture a year or two ago by Joe Engle at NASM in which he told us of the expansion joints in the X-15 and them immediately after the lecture we got to see the X-15 and the expansion joints. |
capoetc
Member Posts: 2169
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 03-13-2010 10:18 AM
A couple years ago, there was a John Glenn lecture event at NASM featuring Neil Armstrong. I ended up with overflow seating which was in the main gallery where the X-15, Apollo 11 CM, and Friendship 7 are located. Glenn and Armstrong stopped in the overflow section to say a few words before moving on to the IMAX theater, and I recall thinking how great it was to have Armstrong and Glenn there in the same room with those historic spacecraft. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-13-2010 10:57 AM
Here are some cool indicators that were either intended for or originated from X-15 #3 (who knows Armstrong may have actually relied on one or more of them).  |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-15-2010 05:06 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Lou Chinal:
Are any of the suits that Armstrong wore on his X-15 flights on display?
At the San Diego Air and Space Museum in the X-15 display (not easy to photograph), next to one of Scott Crossfield’s flown X-15 suits, we have what our curators tell me is the air conditioning bag flown with Armstrong on the X-15. 
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