X-15 Crash Landing (1962)

[Rynin1]

Maniak88R1- Your uncle Charlie was my boss out at Dryden Flight Research Center a few years back. He too told me a few of his stories as the pilot in this video is my Grandfather.

[Rynin1]

4duncanm... where did you get your date from?

[Maniak88R1]

My uncle Charlie Baker was the crew chief on the x-15. Back in February I went to his 85th birthday party and he was telling us about this crash. From what I remember him saying, the pilot ejected the canopy just as it rolled over. I guess if he hadn't, he would have ran out of oxygen and died before the safety crew got there. The x-15 is made out of some serious composite material to survive that crash. I believed my uncle's story but this video just confirmed it.

[TrixXxtaR]

Skills to pay the bills..

[Danielkchoi]

So -.-, we meet again 240p.

[ignoblius]

The rescue crew had to dig a hole under the cockpit to get the pilot out.

[weejor16]

lol i thought it was a bomb

[edguyftw]

I'm so glad the plane survived!!!

[josephdupont]

I think the pilot died years later from complications.. of that crash.

[TV843]

You can really see the extreme landing speeds these things endured in this film.

[iwtfsg]

@TV843 we was going way to fast for a stable landing that´s why he crashed

[chlorophylfactor]

better than those aliaen crop circles , iI'll tell you! hm hmmm.

[13BigLu13]

wow he survived?

[spidez8407]

LOL 30 PERCENT!!!

[airbus91]

mud lake i've been there! :) theres still bullets from WWII

[Reid1Reid1]

love that hd quality

[ArshavinatorTheTres]

@Reid1Reid1 Its 240p, far from HD

[w4rr0ckm4st3r]

@ArshavinatorTheTres It was that thing known as sarcasm.

[RansomCowboy]

@Reid1Reid1 From 1962, and you are still bitching?

[sebianoti]

awful quality, awesome crash

[boomer757]

@sebianoti It's from 1962! what do you want!

[noni15081998]

@sebianoti IT WAS 1962

[4duncanm]

@sebianoti no duh its shitty quality loser, its from 1964

[hpcompaqpresariov500]

Wow

[haggis0breath]

seeing this video, it struck me how similar the cockpit, fuselage and front cowl look to the SR-71. It has the same spare, elegant lines built for pure speed. Both built by Lockheed, but they were developed at about the same time so they must have a common origin. I imagine the X-15 must have been scaled down compared to the SR in dimensions, as it didn't have the camera gear -- or ecm/radar electronics though I don't know if the SR was so equipped.

[paledin3]

@haggis0breath that is why the x-15 was built, to provide data and systems for the following aircraft[sr71 and x-70) so thus the similarity]. the xl5 built by north american, the sr 71 by lockheed. kelly johnson worked for north american in 40's and he is the one who designed the sr7l , but had nothing to do with the xl5 that i know of. jin the 50's northamerican was the fighter company producing among others the p51, f86, fl00, fl04, fl07 that i know of. the fl04 looked alot like x-l5

[IIADX]

@Sveninou yes, thanks, i got it! :P ...at the first sight of the video i had mute volume! Thanks however! :)