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Topic: Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X-15 (Jenkins, Landis)
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Jurg Bolli Member Posts: 977 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-05-2003 10:42 AM
I got this book in the mail yesterday. It is a beautiful book about the X-15, loads of pictures and diagrams, just the right thing for an X-15 junkie like me! I very much look forward to reading it. Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X-15 by Dennis Jenkins and Tony Landis Nineteen years before Space Shuttle, the small, black, rocket-powered, bullet-shaped X-15 showed it was possible to fly into — and out of — space. There had never been anything like the X-15; it had a million-horsepower engine and could fly twice as fast as a rifle bullet. The X-15 set records that stood for years.Specialty Press' Hypersonic is the most extensively researched history of the X-15 program yet produced. The book was written with the cooperation of surviving X-15 pilots as well as many other program principals and is based on six years of research in Air Force, NASA, and North American archives. It covers the tasks of converting and testing the B-52 carrier airplanes, building the first full-pressure suits to protect the pilot, building the first engineering mission simulators, acquiring the remote lakebed landing sites, and building the radar range. It also covers the flight program in detail, including the most authoritative flight log ever assembled; in many instances, information in this log was derived from the original flight data recordings. Also covered are each of the experiments that were flown aboard the X-15 late in its career when it became the workhorse of the space program, carrying such things as startrackers destined for the Apollo program and missile detection systems that would later be sent into orbit on satellites. - Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers; (July 15, 2008)
- ISBN-10: 1580071317
- ISBN-13: 978-1580071314
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heng44 Member Posts: 3386 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-09-2003 05:21 AM
"Hypersonic" contains about 550 excellent photos. The companion volume "X-15 Photo Scrapbook" will contain another 400 photos, but will be published later this year (July-August). | |
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