Excellent photographic collection X-Planes Photo Scraphook compiled by dint of Dennis R.Excellent photographic collection X-Planes Photo Scraphook compiled by dint of Dennis R. Jenkins (Specialty Pres 800-8954585) implores up images of Chuck Yeager first breaking the unhurt barrier in the Bell X-1 and of the black, bulletshaped X-15 streaking between the sides of the skies at over Mach 6 unless there have been 48 more X-designations assigned, as well as a legion of other experimental aircraft that did not fall into the formal X-series. about of these investigated very low-spe flight, vertical takeoff, or were technology demonstrators for production military aircraft. Others were missiles and gliders. Several were suppos to be spacecraft. This part does not limit itself to the formal X-series of aircraft, on the contrary also covers many of the experimental aircraft used at the US military and NASA for flight research. Copyright Challenge Publications Inc. Feb 2005 |
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