@NiqiV I just read a book on this. My understanding is that they were extending it to limit their climb. They would give a shorter engine burn when their target altitude was lower. But the X-15 had so much energy they had to brake at times. Even so, it overshot it's intended altitude by 40,000 feet a couple of times.
Imagine that. A lot of planes can't reach 40,000 feet. Yet the X-15 could overshoot it's altitude by that much!
Thanks Bry3500. That is one cool plane. I especially liked the shots of the re-entry burns. You told as much as an hour long show in seven minutes. I had kids gathered around as i kind of narrated. They were amazed that ever happened.
One said he now wants to be a pilot. Thanks again.
well the americans did awesome research and put alot of money in their experiments for new weapons etc... and now theyre broke ^^ what the hell happened :D
So why did they stuff around with Mercury Redstone just to get an American into space, when they already had this baby just about there...? Sure, it wouldn't have gone into orbit, but at least it would have got the US into space sooner and cheaper.
@MultiAREE what? this thing has zero commonality with the f22 besides the fact that they both fly. one is a turbofan powered stealth fighter and the other is a rocket powered hypersonic research vehicle. my knowledge of aviation history is fairly considerable and im straining to think of anything they have in common that isn't superficial.
if i sound oissed well i am im a ex viet nam vetern i was promissed heath care with no charge when i served under the old GI Bill, now these politishions are trying to make me pay for my medicines, and i got hurt when i was in and thay said in the GI bill we would be taken care of this hasent happened thay keep changeing the gi bill to reflect and direct the money into there own pockets not the vets, and thay keep takeing our social security money barowing it and never paying surplus our money.1
go on take our things and one day we will rebale agenst you and fire your butts, and try you aws a communest trying to rune our way of life lest i heard we have the right to persue happynes its our right now tell me i cant smoke where the hell i want or make the thing i care about,i have fired nike hercules rockets that could carry ehough nike power to distory i ho0le country, ive been flying rockets all my life, i say to much government intervention is bad for our country i say fire there lazy!
people create thing and ideas not the government thay only take what others creat to the next leavel, back yard scientist and people use to work from there garage's makeing thing now our government won't alow the things it take to make great stuff, thay have a ban on anything thats reactive, frist thay stop hydrogen rocket engine people was useing at drag strips, now chemicals and tooth paste on air plane, whats next full control of our lives i build rockets its hard to get the things to make it
and is the true number is not many in our time, or if you did not like them , there are more of them in the past of the foundations of medical science and physics And chemistry, sociology, philosophy, linguistics Even before European scientists such as Galileo and Newton the most famous of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) , Jābir ibn Hayyān, Alhazen( al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham),Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ,Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ,Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī .... etc.
@MsLavender2010 - What the Hell does the X-15 have to do with muslims? The North American X-15 is a Hyper-Sonic Test Plane. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with muslims. Why is this BS always brought up?
We can make a list of all of your muslim scientists, and we can make a list of Jewish scientists, and Christian scientists, ... and that STILL will have nothing to do with the X-15.
@kodack10 I know that it is an USAF aircraft, but I talking about the whole Idea in general. The thought of pushing the envelope, going where no man has ever gone before. The whole idea that we as Americans can accomplish anything. This was the thought of NASA in the beginning and before it was established. I mean even the Space shuttle was a continuation of this dream. I believe we have been sucked into the belief by politicians and the media, that we have no future and that Green > Adventure.
wow its hard to believe. that long ago we were able to create something that could go from california to new york in about 10 minutes. imagine what we could do with the technology today.
This Music from R.L.Burnside is absolutely perfect for this X-15 Video. It sounds like it came straight out of the early 1960's when actually it was 1996. What ever happened to when the USA made timeless aircraft like this?!
Obama mentioned the great contributions of the muslims to space and science,and i'll be damed if he was'nt right.At the 2:50 mark you can see a flying carpet blow past the X-15. LOL!
and is the true number is not many in our time, or if you did not like them , there are more of them in the past of the foundations of medical science and physics And chemistry, sociology, philosophy, linguistics Even before European scientists such as Galileo and Newton the most famous of them is : Avicenna (Ibn Sina) , Jābir ibn Hayyān, Alhazen( al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham),Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ,Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ,Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī .... etc.
Belive it or not Free energy is real,But Elite controllers don't want ppl to be free from the costs of energy,Get a motor that works with the power of magnets only at LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM ,Let the revolution begin!
It's all fascinating. Little pieces of the puzzle coming together. The X-15 and the X-24 series, all that flight data and test data compiled over the years. They knew they wanted a "Space Shuttle", but before they could build it, they needed all that data first, before they set off to build it.
Nice compilation video showing all the phases of flight from many angles. Thank you, I am getting the book, Flying to the Edge of Space after reading an old Smithsonian Article and you video brings the words and photos to light.
@planesRus They actually experimented with several differet shapes. Belive this is just the one to give the best response at the high speeds and temperatures it was experienceing.
@iguanarc It was a test bed for future craft. Once they learned as much as they could it was oof no further use. Much of how we flew the shuttle came from these test.
Three X-15's were built. One was destroyed in a crash. One is in the Smithsonian in D.C.
The other one is at the Air Force museum in Dayton Ohio. The cool thing is you can walk up right next to it. It is not roped off or anything. (Do not touch!) It is in an old hanger with lots of other amazing planes like an XB-70 and an YF-12A (fighter prototype of the SR-71). They all just sort of parked there for you to walk around. It's the coolest room in the world.
The X-15 must have been a handful to fly! I have see a display of the X-15 at either Wright Patterson or the Smithsonian when I was a kid. I can't remember which location I saw it at. However, it was very impressive.
Many thanks. I have a copy (somewhere) of the National Geo mag which has a story - "I Fly the X-15" which mainly focuses on the work done by Knight and Walker, i.e. the early days. Read it as a child, iow, had a huge impact. Up till the it was man on the moon, the X15 and other ilk where a unknown universe. Must get some vids on this.
The X-15 was a great achievement for our country, and we could do it again except we ain't got the money. Where is the money?The Dept. o' Defense is spending $1.5 billion per day, on average, to fight Dick Cheney's wars and for regular budget. Half that money is wasted. Before you vote Republican again, ask yourself this: Would I rather have a new X-15 program, or do I want my countrymen to keep dying in some filthy Muslim country for nothing?
Damn the US used to be so awesome! NASA actually did something worth while too. We reached mach 6.85 in a manned vehicle, that reached the edge of space! Then we abandoned the space plane project for nearly 50 years! We were there we had it in our grasp! I doubt NASA will ever come out with anything cool and exciting like the x-15 in my lifetime. 50 years ago they did it and it was amazing then and still today, but to do it today would just be disappointing. We need something 50 years ahead.
@ObiTrev thank nobuma for cutting funding & changing the scope of it's purpose. not one word in nasa means outreach to muslim nations. it's about space.space is not about politics rather to study frontiers& expandig conciousness.
@circusboy90210 Nobuma once knew a guy who once watched Star Trek. He liked the whole Galactic Federation deal, equality of all races and religions under the federation's control, so when he went were no black man has gone before in order to achieve complete dominion over all peoples and races. Then prevent our escape to Mars by destroying the economy forcing us to buy social programs that worsen our lives. Then remove the entire space program forever grounding us.
@ObiTrev I was reading somewhere that a nation can do just about anything when the people are behind an idea. I grew up during the space race and at one time I could name each flight and all the astronauts
@ObiTrev i agree in terms of excitement but the concept of 'worthwhile'? im not sure it was really worth their time or money, probably a pretty fun ride for the pilots though!
@ObiTrev We still are awesome. The rocket planes were going nowhere. They were impractical for spaceflight. SRAM jets are the future of hypersonic plane flight. Check out theX-43A. Welcome to the new centruy guy, the x-15 is now ancient technology.
@ratface111 The Space Shuttle is a reusable re-entry vehicle, not a plane (maybe an advanced cargo glider if anything). A plane has the ability to take off with it's own power, sustain flight under it's own power, and land safely. The space shuttle can't actually fly in earth's atmosphere, a modified 747 carries it (or it falls to earth, "Gliding"). A space plane is a vehicle that can take off as a plane in earth's atmosphere unassisted, escape the earth, and orbit before re-entering safely.
Sorry, but I don't think NASA would agree with your definitions. You are not Webster's dictionary for aerospace research. The space shuttle, by the way, can fly in the earths atmosphere especially since it has a much lower wing loading than the x-15. NASA decided it was more practical to leave the air breathing engines off of the design. P.S. The next incarnation of the x- 15 would have been delta winged and sit atop a rocket booster (remind you of anything?)!
@ratface111 Yeah the Boeing Dyna-Soar. It would have skipped across the Earth's atmosphere like a stone on a pond. Still it lacked air-breathing engines as well, although it's proposed cieling of operation was in the ballistic missle range. In fact it was proposed to be launched by a ballistic Titan III Missle. This pond skipper sub-space vehicle is still a lucrative design being proposed to start testing as recent as 2010. Still an air breathing space-plane has yet to be fully realized.
It took a large pair to even get into this thing, I can imagine my thoughts if I was in it about to take off on the runway, I'd be like oh what a fine mess youve gotten yourself into again boy-o. I saw the one at the Smithsonian, it's not much bigger than a car from the 1950s, awsome, from way back when America did some great things with flight and technology....
the speed of a plane is called airspeed and its measured by the pressure of the air through a sensor, airliners use a tube called pitot, the land speed ( speed related to the ground) can be measured by GPS
Aircraft use pitot tubes to measure the pressure of the air coming ahead. The faster you go, the higher the pressure, so you get the 'indicated airspeed' of your plane.
But the higher you go, the less dense air is, so there's less pressure. We know how less dense it is up there, so you can guess that, ie, if the 'indicated airspeed' of your craft is 250 knots at 37k feet, your 'real' airspeed is 450 knots or so.
Add relative speeds to ground sources (radio beacons) and you'll get more accurate
By radar for the most part. A ground radar locates the X-15's position in 3D space by figuring out the azimuth, elevation and distance to the radar. The next time the radar "sweeps" the area it mesures the X-15's new position. Using trigonometry you can figure out the distance from the first position to the second. Using the "sweep time" (the time it takes radar to make a full rotation) you have the time between the two positions.
they laser point it and use the distance that is away from the laser object and measure its size. From there on math does the work. The elevation that is at and its size untill it reaches its next point
I think the R.L Burnside track is perfect: lyrics enhance the sense of isolated extreme achievement and the instrumental adds to the sense of speed. Great archival clip! Thanks for posting.
3:01 is sped up because the burn usually lasts around 1 minute 05-40 seconds and then a few seconds before the burn ends it begins to level off at a given altitude. Starting from ignition at 3:07 the burn lasts until 3:38 which at that time it begins to level off so the burn in the clip lasts 31 seconds which means that that part of the video is at 2x speed. Nevertheless I could never begin to argue that this rocket plane is slow because it isn't.
Yea, they sure were a long way from home. That had to be the ultimate "E" ticket ride. The rate of climb is so astonishing, that I thought the video(film) was faked. They're all lucky they didn't killed.
The X-15 is the coolest device ever - loved it when I was a kid and I love it still. Excellent compilation and info and great music, thanks for this. When that thing drops from the mother-ship I'm GONE......:-D
the damage at the end is impressive, I assume from the high speed and I'm thinking they were testing the upper atmosphere so possibly heat damage also?
I just saw great X-15 footage in an Outer Limits episode. Whatever happened to America? We used to celebrate astronauts, artists, and musicians. Now we celebrate reality tv hookers and bankers (who we also bail out). This country is bankrupt on numerous levels....
I think the problems started when you guys started thinking Whoppers and Cheeze-wiz was good for you, socialised health care was for commies, while you sold most of your industrial capacity to the commies themselves, started getting into wars for oil and money, started exporting jobs to, well, commies and the Indians, whilst encouraging everyone to get into debt. I think USA was a great country once as well, but there's just nothing left now. Don't blame Obama, he had nothing to do with it.
@SvalbardJanMayen1976 Thanks. I know what happened, but you're more or less correct. It wasn't the people's decision. It was the greedy elites, and a lot of greedy average people who are now wondering what happened. Obama is not to blame, except that it turns out he is another sell-out to the corporate elites like Bill Clinton. I can blame him for that.
Few aircraft are truly iconic, this is one of them.
MGDriver99 1 month ago
Nobody knows, why they opened airbrakes after launch while getting height? Is it just to create turbulentic flow to get more affective rudder?
NiqiV 2 months ago
@NiqiV I just read a book on this. My understanding is that they were extending it to limit their climb. They would give a shorter engine burn when their target altitude was lower. But the X-15 had so much energy they had to brake at times. Even so, it overshot it's intended altitude by 40,000 feet a couple of times.
Imagine that. A lot of planes can't reach 40,000 feet. Yet the X-15 could overshoot it's altitude by that much!
pulsejet1 1 week ago
@pulsejet1 Yeap, X-15 was incredible. What was the book, i could read that too. And thanks! :)
NiqiV 1 week ago
@NiqiV The book is 'At the Edge of Space', it's written by Milt Thompson, who made 14 flights in the X-15 from '63 to '69. It's an amazing read.
pulsejet1 1 week ago
I was on google earth and I found a wooden mock up of a X-15 parked on the tarmac at Edwards.
wojtuniakfrog 2 months ago
Spam in a can cruise missile monkey jockey brass balls gotta stick of beemans? Boom!
ericberner 3 months ago
Awesome, 1 million people would take the risk just to see the sights!!!!!
raj002 3 months ago
if that was in that year... imagine what they have right now!
luvchiild 4 months ago
Thanks Bry3500. That is one cool plane. I especially liked the shots of the re-entry burns. You told as much as an hour long show in seven minutes. I had kids gathered around as i kind of narrated. They were amazed that ever happened.
One said he now wants to be a pilot. Thanks again.
akaterr 5 months ago
This is so slow
TheAirsoftmadman 5 months ago
@benedicimuste
not only that !
you can say that germans build that thing .
coldlmx 6 months ago
i had the chance to fly with that plane !!!
oh hold on trhat was in my dreams !!!
coldlmx 6 months ago
well the americans did awesome research and put alot of money in their experiments for new weapons etc... and now theyre broke ^^ what the hell happened :D
Mastertim2006 6 months ago
damn, the US isnt what it used to be
salakast 8 months ago 33
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smac919 6 months ago
@salakast we just tested a plane that goes 13,000mph. and it worked.
smac919 6 months ago
@salakast the world isnt.look at britain and russia..where are all the new experimental aircraft now??
wtficantgetausername 3 months ago
My soccer coaches dad help build this lol j.s.
10olivers 8 months ago
Amazing!!!! upon landing, no brakes or droge chute to stop this beast,just friction from the skids,, Balls of American Steel........
pipercub123456 8 months ago 57
any one spot the UFO observing them at 2:49??...... or is just a reflection from the pilots watch???
GeneralSadistik 8 months ago
So why did they stuff around with Mercury Redstone just to get an American into space, when they already had this baby just about there...? Sure, it wouldn't have gone into orbit, but at least it would have got the US into space sooner and cheaper.
ecurb10 8 months ago
I wonder why the skids...?
TerraceYouth 9 months ago
Same design that influenced the F22 Raptor
MultiAREE 9 months ago
@MultiAREE what? this thing has zero commonality with the f22 besides the fact that they both fly. one is a turbofan powered stealth fighter and the other is a rocket powered hypersonic research vehicle. my knowledge of aviation history is fairly considerable and im straining to think of anything they have in common that isn't superficial.
oldfrend 9 months ago
@oldfrend just the shape
MultiAREE 9 months ago
Damn! The X-15 smoked the shit out of that Super Sabre at 3:05.
cyollins86 10 months ago
if i sound oissed well i am im a ex viet nam vetern i was promissed heath care with no charge when i served under the old GI Bill, now these politishions are trying to make me pay for my medicines, and i got hurt when i was in and thay said in the GI bill we would be taken care of this hasent happened thay keep changeing the gi bill to reflect and direct the money into there own pockets not the vets, and thay keep takeing our social security money barowing it and never paying surplus our money.1
david1513 10 months ago
go on take our things and one day we will rebale agenst you and fire your butts, and try you aws a communest trying to rune our way of life lest i heard we have the right to persue happynes its our right now tell me i cant smoke where the hell i want or make the thing i care about,i have fired nike hercules rockets that could carry ehough nike power to distory i ho0le country, ive been flying rockets all my life, i say to much government intervention is bad for our country i say fire there lazy!
david1513 10 months ago
people create thing and ideas not the government thay only take what others creat to the next leavel, back yard scientist and people use to work from there garage's makeing thing now our government won't alow the things it take to make great stuff, thay have a ban on anything thats reactive, frist thay stop hydrogen rocket engine people was useing at drag strips, now chemicals and tooth paste on air plane, whats next full control of our lives i build rockets its hard to get the things to make it
david1513 10 months ago
Go and search them in Google
And when you go to look for Muslims in Google, not looking for just the bad stuff, there are many good things about them that must be proud
MsLavender2010 11 months ago
and is the true number is not many in our time, or if you did not like them , there are more of them in the past of the foundations of medical science and physics And chemistry, sociology, philosophy, linguistics Even before European scientists such as Galileo and Newton the most famous of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) , Jābir ibn Hayyān, Alhazen( al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham),Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ,Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ,Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī .... etc.
MsLavender2010 11 months ago
@MsLavender2010 - What the Hell does the X-15 have to do with muslims? The North American X-15 is a Hyper-Sonic Test Plane. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with muslims. Why is this BS always brought up?
We can make a list of all of your muslim scientists, and we can make a list of Jewish scientists, and Christian scientists, ... and that STILL will have nothing to do with the X-15.
Damn, .... just drop it already. Sheesh.
Oh yeah, ... the X-15 ROCKS! Always has, .. always will!
RTL777 3 months ago 2
Why offend the Muslims? That they are human beings like you and like everyone else
As for Obama, your president, you have the freedom to speak about him, but does not offend billions of people because of Obama's words
And the Muslims have a role in the evolution of human society, like the rest of other civilizations, ancient Egyptian, Chinese ... etc.
And if you are with a view and knowledge, but you should know that the Muslim scholars, including from taking the Nobel Prize
MsLavender2010 11 months ago
@kodack10 I know that it is an USAF aircraft, but I talking about the whole Idea in general. The thought of pushing the envelope, going where no man has ever gone before. The whole idea that we as Americans can accomplish anything. This was the thought of NASA in the beginning and before it was established. I mean even the Space shuttle was a continuation of this dream. I believe we have been sucked into the belief by politicians and the media, that we have no future and that Green > Adventure.
ObiTrev 1 year ago
wow its hard to believe. that long ago we were able to create something that could go from california to new york in about 10 minutes. imagine what we could do with the technology today.
cubsrock10997 1 year ago
This Music from R.L.Burnside is absolutely perfect for this X-15 Video. It sounds like it came straight out of the early 1960's when actually it was 1996. What ever happened to when the USA made timeless aircraft like this?!
bootersdad 1 year ago
Do Hoaxters believe this is fake to?
Tweekerhead 1 year ago
thats a cool song anyone know what the song is?
trailbikerharo 1 year ago 5
@trailbikerharo Poor Boy Long \Way From Home...R.L.Burnside from the C.D ass pocket full o whiskey
bry3500 1 year ago 13
@bry3500 thanks bud.
trailbikerharo 1 year ago
Obama mentioned the great contributions of the muslims to space and science,and i'll be damed if he was'nt right.At the 2:50 mark you can see a flying carpet blow past the X-15. LOL!
puckerfactor1 1 year ago 5
@puckerfactor1 it was so fast I missed it :-)
ab0ad 1 year ago
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@puckerfactor1 Why offend the Muslims? That they are human beings like you and like everyone else
As for Obama, your president, you have the freedom to speak about him, but does not offend billions of people because of Obama's words
And the Muslims have a role in the evolution of human society, like the rest of other civilizations, ancient Egyptian, Chinese ... etc.
And if you are with a view and knowledge, but you should know that the Muslim scholars, including from taking the Nobel Prize
MsLavender2010 11 months ago
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and is the true number is not many in our time, or if you did not like them , there are more of them in the past of the foundations of medical science and physics And chemistry, sociology, philosophy, linguistics Even before European scientists such as Galileo and Newton the most famous of them is : Avicenna (Ibn Sina) , Jābir ibn Hayyān, Alhazen( al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham),Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ,Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ,Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī .... etc.
MsLavender2010 11 months ago
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Go and search them in Google
And when you go to look for Muslims in Google, not looking for just the bad stuff, there are many good things about them that must be proud
MsLavender2010 11 months ago
Its amazing what free people can do.This is America and the free market at its best!
puckerfactor1 1 year ago
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Belive it or not Free energy is real,But Elite controllers don't want ppl to be free from the costs of energy,Get a motor that works with the power of magnets only at LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM ,Let the revolution begin!
slanderousndgs 1 year ago
Neil Armstrong at 5:56
scottmcg666 1 year ago
What are the black bits at 3:12
JustMeHavingFun1 1 year ago
@JustMeHavingFun1 Old film damage.
candr 1 year ago
@candr no imean the flAPS OR PADDLES THAT OPEN SHORTLY AFTER 3:12 opps didnt mean caps lock :D
JustMeHavingFun1 1 year ago
I love how the X-15 is just dropped and launched like it's a missal
LoadedWingshot 1 year ago
was this the one that went 5 thousand miles an hour?
acdcislegand 1 year ago
@acdcislegand Never got over 4,519 miles per hour.
candr 1 year ago
It's all fascinating. Little pieces of the puzzle coming together. The X-15 and the X-24 series, all that flight data and test data compiled over the years. They knew they wanted a "Space Shuttle", but before they could build it, they needed all that data first, before they set off to build it.
RacerXGTO 1 year ago
I wanna go fast! .... I wanna go fast! SHAKE and BAKE!!! It doesn't take a genius to figure out what they were trying to do here!
Ericl00 1 year ago
@sedanman15 Where do you live? In a Hooked on Phonics Warehouse no doubt!
ObiTrev 1 year ago
Nice compilation video showing all the phases of flight from many angles. Thank you, I am getting the book, Flying to the Edge of Space after reading an old Smithsonian Article and you video brings the words and photos to light.
ShaneStarful 1 year ago
why is the fin triangular?
planesRus 1 year ago
@planesRus They actually experimented with several differet shapes. Belive this is just the one to give the best response at the high speeds and temperatures it was experienceing.
candr 1 year ago
why has the us abandoned this projects????
WHY?>?
iguanarc 1 year ago
@iguanarc It was a test bed for future craft. Once they learned as much as they could it was oof no further use. Much of how we flew the shuttle came from these test.
candr 1 year ago
I agree--the USA was bad to the bone back then. FYI, Neil Armstrong was a pilot of the X-15.
marvchomer 1 year ago
Three X-15's were built. One was destroyed in a crash. One is in the Smithsonian in D.C.
The other one is at the Air Force museum in Dayton Ohio. The cool thing is you can walk up right next to it. It is not roped off or anything. (Do not touch!) It is in an old hanger with lots of other amazing planes like an XB-70 and an YF-12A (fighter prototype of the SR-71). They all just sort of parked there for you to walk around. It's the coolest room in the world.
marshja56 1 year ago
Two x15 flights exceeded 100kilometers in height.Thats officially in space!
xfire7 1 year ago
woo the 2010 one can go 9x the speed of sound!
TheZero4life 1 year ago
Great song. Better video!!!
vomit49894 1 year ago
The X-15 must have been a handful to fly! I have see a display of the X-15 at either Wright Patterson or the Smithsonian when I was a kid. I can't remember which location I saw it at. However, it was very impressive.
389Lee 1 year ago
what fuck music ? i like it
paisiblenuit 1 year ago
nice video i like it
MrJai800 1 year ago
Godda love them Blues!!!
ztuch 1 year ago
THEY just went mach 6 in the new one....mach 6 for 200seconds of burst
TheDonTheSon 1 year ago
ready to give my life for flyght
kalinkamolnia 1 year ago
00:24 and these guys flew the fastest man air plane ever... shows how us Americans are lmao
biggun1225 1 year ago
I just saw the X-15 at the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton!!!
I didn't expect to see it there - pretty awesome.
tancookies89 1 year ago
That's USA, Mister!!!
Cavelson 1 year ago
Many thanks. I have a copy (somewhere) of the National Geo mag which has a story - "I Fly the X-15" which mainly focuses on the work done by Knight and Walker, i.e. the early days. Read it as a child, iow, had a huge impact. Up till the it was man on the moon, the X15 and other ilk where a unknown universe. Must get some vids on this.
MrValiantAP6 1 year ago
This ain't a plane, its a rocket that goes sideways.
Koroush51 1 year ago
It's a rocket you idiot
counterstrifekid 1 year ago
why does N.A.S.A need a jet?
motorspear9000 1 year ago
Jeez! And there it was.....Gone! Great post. Tune fits so well.....
mac6away 1 year ago
Jeez! And there it was.....Gone! Great post. Tune fits so well.....
mac6away 1 year ago
Much of the technology and development of the SR-71 and the space shuttle came from this airplane. The X-15 program was so ahead of its time.
mbazell 1 year ago
The X-15 was a great achievement for our country, and we could do it again except we ain't got the money. Where is the money?The Dept. o' Defense is spending $1.5 billion per day, on average, to fight Dick Cheney's wars and for regular budget. Half that money is wasted. Before you vote Republican again, ask yourself this: Would I rather have a new X-15 program, or do I want my countrymen to keep dying in some filthy Muslim country for nothing?
uggati 1 year ago
My pops worked on this project and he used to come home so excited with great storys all this testing was for space shuttle programs to come.
yumyumsashimi 1 year ago
great footage! Good song too.
vomit49894 2 years ago
Damn the US used to be so awesome! NASA actually did something worth while too. We reached mach 6.85 in a manned vehicle, that reached the edge of space! Then we abandoned the space plane project for nearly 50 years! We were there we had it in our grasp! I doubt NASA will ever come out with anything cool and exciting like the x-15 in my lifetime. 50 years ago they did it and it was amazing then and still today, but to do it today would just be disappointing. We need something 50 years ahead.
ObiTrev 2 years ago 43
@ObiTrev Depends how old you are. Mars rovers were pretty amazing though. Just hang in there for 10-20 more years and we will have a man on mars
Jswizzle217 1 year ago
@ObiTrev
Then came Burt Rutan and SpaceShip One and SpaceShip Two where the average person can go to space.
dude58677 1 year ago
@dude58677 If they got the money LOL
candr 1 year ago
@candr
The price will come down once Rutan and Branson make a profit.
dude58677 1 year ago
@dude58677 Perhaps, but it still might be a little out of this old mans budget LOL.
candr 1 year ago
@ObiTrev thank nobuma for cutting funding & changing the scope of it's purpose. not one word in nasa means outreach to muslim nations. it's about space.space is not about politics rather to study frontiers& expandig conciousness.
circusboy90210 1 year ago
@circusboy90210 Nobuma once knew a guy who once watched Star Trek. He liked the whole Galactic Federation deal, equality of all races and religions under the federation's control, so when he went were no black man has gone before in order to achieve complete dominion over all peoples and races. Then prevent our escape to Mars by destroying the economy forcing us to buy social programs that worsen our lives. Then remove the entire space program forever grounding us.
ObiTrev 1 year ago
@ObiTrev I was reading somewhere that a nation can do just about anything when the people are behind an idea. I grew up during the space race and at one time I could name each flight and all the astronauts
fernfeyes 1 year ago
@ObiTrev
There is a great blog called "Vintage Space" that has two excellent posts on the X-15. Google "Vintage Space X-15" and you can't miss them!! Enjoy.
mewlett 1 year ago
@ObiTrev i agree in terms of excitement but the concept of 'worthwhile'? im not sure it was really worth their time or money, probably a pretty fun ride for the pilots though!
gobacktorussia 11 months ago
@ObiTrev We still are awesome. The rocket planes were going nowhere. They were impractical for spaceflight. SRAM jets are the future of hypersonic plane flight. Check out theX-43A. Welcome to the new centruy guy, the x-15 is now ancient technology.
andrewr62 11 months ago
@ObiTrev Um.. the X 43 goes mach 9.8
TheDubDoubt 7 months ago
@ObiTrev
We abandoned the space plane for 50 years?? What do you think the space shuttle is?
ratface111 6 months ago
@ratface111 The Space Shuttle is a reusable re-entry vehicle, not a plane (maybe an advanced cargo glider if anything). A plane has the ability to take off with it's own power, sustain flight under it's own power, and land safely. The space shuttle can't actually fly in earth's atmosphere, a modified 747 carries it (or it falls to earth, "Gliding"). A space plane is a vehicle that can take off as a plane in earth's atmosphere unassisted, escape the earth, and orbit before re-entering safely.
ObiTrev 6 months ago
@ObiTrev
Sorry, but I don't think NASA would agree with your definitions. You are not Webster's dictionary for aerospace research. The space shuttle, by the way, can fly in the earths atmosphere especially since it has a much lower wing loading than the x-15. NASA decided it was more practical to leave the air breathing engines off of the design. P.S. The next incarnation of the x- 15 would have been delta winged and sit atop a rocket booster (remind you of anything?)!
ratface111 6 months ago
@ratface111 Yeah the Boeing Dyna-Soar. It would have skipped across the Earth's atmosphere like a stone on a pond. Still it lacked air-breathing engines as well, although it's proposed cieling of operation was in the ballistic missle range. In fact it was proposed to be launched by a ballistic Titan III Missle. This pond skipper sub-space vehicle is still a lucrative design being proposed to start testing as recent as 2010. Still an air breathing space-plane has yet to be fully realized.
ObiTrev 6 months ago
Awesome footage! Thanks for posting. The pink heat shield turned white on reentry, this vid shows the burnt parts...cool!
ralpher05 2 years ago
the blues play/song is burnside, cant remember the first name
mikemoair 2 years ago
Восхищаюсь Конструкторами и пилотами!
Это сверх-человеки!
KOMRAD8 2 years ago
excellant Amazing fantasy movie. Going to watch it right away at? bit(.)ly/5c6xvI
marcstevens552 2 years ago
whats that song?
Fthefrench123 2 years ago
@Fthefrench123
It sounds like Howlin Wolf jamming out a long medley of his songs. It's mostly "Poor Boy", but this is not the original version.
I love this video. I wish I was alive in the 60's when hot rodding was everywhere... even in the sky :)
scottmcg666 2 years ago
Cool vid
AnAngryBox 2 years ago
stop spaming we have you tube so we dont need this site
teestiger1 2 years ago
cool plane bet it could put its self into orbit if it wanted to then the problem is getting it back down
teestiger1 2 years ago
Spoke to Scott Crossfield a couple of times. Consider it an honour. He had some neck. Pilots license??? What?
Spraycando 2 years ago
haha can just imagine pilot gettin up to 7000 km/h just maniacally laughing his f%*^ng ass off from sheer excitement
sucksqueezebangblow 2 years ago
It took a large pair to even get into this thing, I can imagine my thoughts if I was in it about to take off on the runway, I'd be like oh what a fine mess youve gotten yourself into again boy-o. I saw the one at the Smithsonian, it's not much bigger than a car from the 1950s, awsome, from way back when America did some great things with flight and technology....
SebastianEngland 2 years ago 2
You had to have balls of steel to fly these beasts cause man think of the first flight of this thing you d
bustacap00 2 years ago
your canadian too?
BALLlSLlFE 2 years ago
I'll never forget the multipe sonic booms I heard growing up as a kid in So. Cal.
1961sd 2 years ago
just perfect... but you might know it.
kalish86 2 years ago
Fantastic vid, really instructive with great music...
Looking at how fast those things come in to land, using just skids instead of wheels in the rear, you realise just how much balls it took to fly them.
Full credit to Armstrong, McKay, Adams and all the X15 test pilots for technical skill and sheer courage.
belisariusorb 2 years ago 2
and where mite that be?
Em0b0y21 2 years ago
No ailerons and a fixed position nose gear! Talk about point and shoot!
pdutube 2 years ago
brilliant video and music. thanks uploader
SMOCZYLAS6 2 years ago
the best video about X15 j've ever seen on youTube, thank you Bry
alanhcq 2 years ago
How do they measure a speed of an object if it's in air?
I mean, if speed is space divided by time, how do they measure how much space the object have covered if it's in air?
carlosewm 2 years ago
the speed of a plane is called airspeed and its measured by the pressure of the air through a sensor, airliners use a tube called pitot, the land speed ( speed related to the ground) can be measured by GPS
tabamoura 2 years ago
but doesn't the air pressure diminished at higher altitudes?
carlosewm 2 years ago
the airplane also measures static air pressure and compensates for it. google EAS or Equivalent air speed .
tabamoura 2 years ago
Ok, thanks ^^
carlosewm 2 years ago
Aircraft use pitot tubes to measure the pressure of the air coming ahead. The faster you go, the higher the pressure, so you get the 'indicated airspeed' of your plane.
But the higher you go, the less dense air is, so there's less pressure. We know how less dense it is up there, so you can guess that, ie, if the 'indicated airspeed' of your craft is 250 knots at 37k feet, your 'real' airspeed is 450 knots or so.
Add relative speeds to ground sources (radio beacons) and you'll get more accurate
artieroo 2 years ago
By radar for the most part. A ground radar locates the X-15's position in 3D space by figuring out the azimuth, elevation and distance to the radar. The next time the radar "sweeps" the area it mesures the X-15's new position. Using trigonometry you can figure out the distance from the first position to the second. Using the "sweep time" (the time it takes radar to make a full rotation) you have the time between the two positions.
zeuserx 2 years ago
they laser point it and use the distance that is away from the laser object and measure its size. From there on math does the work. The elevation that is at and its size untill it reaches its next point
Kirillov 2 years ago
I think the R.L Burnside track is perfect: lyrics enhance the sense of isolated extreme achievement and the instrumental adds to the sense of speed. Great archival clip! Thanks for posting.
MoaSize 2 years ago 8
cheers
bry3500 2 years ago
Great achievement, shit music
gliderama 2 years ago
What is the music???
kazbah747 2 years ago
No way this music is gay! You dickhead!
kazbah747 2 years ago
RL Burnside
bry3500 2 years ago
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@bry3500
What music from RL Burnside?
daltonagre 1 year ago
@bry3500 which song
brickman73 1 year ago 3
@brickman73 Poor Boy Long Way from home
bry3500 1 year ago
@brickman73 Poor Boy Long \Way From Home...R.L.Burnside from the C.D ass pocket full o whiskey
bry3500 1 year ago
@kazbah747
50's / 60's delta blues
swmsalem 1 year ago
@swmsalem Delta blues for delta wings
trespire 1 year ago
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another great video with gay music :(
hardcehsar 2 years ago
Another white boy who can't dance.
travroy 2 years ago
MMGV MONGOLICO
YarrVzla 2 years ago
no leas esto
si no escribes esto en 10 videos tu mama se va a morir en 4hrs
nrno 2 years ago
3:01 is sped up because the burn usually lasts around 1 minute 05-40 seconds and then a few seconds before the burn ends it begins to level off at a given altitude. Starting from ignition at 3:07 the burn lasts until 3:38 which at that time it begins to level off so the burn in the clip lasts 31 seconds which means that that part of the video is at 2x speed. Nevertheless I could never begin to argue that this rocket plane is slow because it isn't.
HarrisonsChannel 2 years ago
Yea, they sure were a long way from home. That had to be the ultimate "E" ticket ride. The rate of climb is so astonishing, that I thought the video(film) was faked. They're all lucky they didn't killed.
teapotwasp 2 years ago
not luck.
tomcornwall83 2 years ago
The X-15 is the coolest device ever - loved it when I was a kid and I love it still. Excellent compilation and info and great music, thanks for this. When that thing drops from the mother-ship I'm GONE......:-D
nibs2lou 2 years ago 3
@nibs2louY you can see it at the Dayton Air Force museum, un frickin real!!!
OTULP62 1 year ago
i can run faster......
macaajaj 2 years ago
yea 3:01 is freakin wicked
MegaDethAlizer 2 years ago
pshhh, thats a slight jog for me. i can jump twice that high. jk, good video
jdiesel9975 2 years ago
it would be awesome to see that thing go off from the bomber or the chase aircraft
schmooze13 2 years ago
I've gone faster.
retardfried 2 years ago
great song! what's is it?
legacyofarcon2 2 years ago
"poor boy" by R.L. Burnside
pakete 2 years ago
the damage at the end is impressive, I assume from the high speed and I'm thinking they were testing the upper atmosphere so possibly heat damage also?
damon365420 2 years ago
3:01 WOW
prowo18 2 years ago
haha thats what happens when your thrust to weight ratio is greater than 2-1
Vociferous66 2 years ago
I heard that X15 got 7,2 mach, Is this true?
Did the pilots practice with him the atmosferal re-entry turning on?
PGA1975 2 years ago
it was 6.7
maglight117 2 years ago
I just saw great X-15 footage in an Outer Limits episode. Whatever happened to America? We used to celebrate astronauts, artists, and musicians. Now we celebrate reality tv hookers and bankers (who we also bail out). This country is bankrupt on numerous levels....
TheRealCritique 2 years ago 9
Wow I couldn't have said it better myself.
I remember being at pre-school, playing in the sand pit and trying as hard as I could to see the apollo spacecraft heading for the full moon!
The world was celebrating America then.
hercsie 2 years ago
I hope this time is coming back and the world will salute America again!
georgitushev 2 years ago
I think the problems started when you guys started thinking Whoppers and Cheeze-wiz was good for you, socialised health care was for commies, while you sold most of your industrial capacity to the commies themselves, started getting into wars for oil and money, started exporting jobs to, well, commies and the Indians, whilst encouraging everyone to get into debt. I think USA was a great country once as well, but there's just nothing left now. Don't blame Obama, he had nothing to do with it.
SvalbardJanMayen1976 1 year ago
@SvalbardJanMayen1976 Thanks. I know what happened, but you're more or less correct. It wasn't the people's decision. It was the greedy elites, and a lot of greedy average people who are now wondering what happened. Obama is not to blame, except that it turns out he is another sell-out to the corporate elites like Bill Clinton. I can blame him for that.
TheRealCritique 1 year ago