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thrust Reaction Motors XLR99 engine that the aircraft was originally designed for.
The default X-Plane 11 (XP11) X-15 is equipped with the 57,000 lb. Four years prior to that, in August of 1963, NASA pilot (USAF retired) Joe Walker took the X-15 to an altitude of 354,200′ – 67 miles high! The story of the flight envelope expansion period leading up to those flights is fascinating to read about. On October 3, 1967, USAF pilot William Knight would pilot the X-15-A2 to its maximum achieved speed on flight #188 of 4,520mph, or Mach 6.72. For the layperson – the X-15 stands out for its incredible achievements in both speed and altitude. Heat would be a ever present challenge to engineers and pilots and hurdling each problem that came up is what makes up the bulk of Jenkin’s excellent history of the program. Indeed, what I hoped would be a short and easy research phase for this article dragged on into months of tweaking the aircraft, asking for assistance from those with greater knowledge of X-Plane than I have, and basically pestering my way to the light at the end of the tunnel.įrom an engineering standpoint, the X-15 was wildly successful, proving many concepts and expanding knowledge on dozens of subjects, not the least of which were the thermodynamics of hypersonic flight. But to my great surprise, with regards to performance, the X-Plane X-15 adheres closely to what the actual aircraft was capable of. With regards to systems, it is greatly simplified, and not at all realistic. While there are excellent X-15 add-ons available for FSX and P3D, my interest mostly rested with the intriguing X-15 that is included with the default X-Plane 10/11 install. In my quest to try to accurately duplicate the performance and profiles of the X-15 flights, I dove into the books and detailed official NASA mission reports and took a ton of notes. Sprinkled with incredible engineering insights, and humorous stories of pilots and engineers, the 644-page X-15: Frontiers of Flight is a fascinating read for those interested in the history of the X-15 project.
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Recently I stumbled upon a freely downloadable PDF written in 2008 by a renowned NASA contractor and space historian, Dennis Jenkins, who wrote what is very likely the most definitive history of the X-15 program to date. I’ve read nearly every book about the X-15 program that I could get my hands on – from the dry and somewhat analytical X-15 The NASA Mission Reports, to X-15 pilot Milton Thompson’s excellent and humorous At the Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program.
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But any student of aviation usually dives into the history of the field, and something about those early X series aircraft struck that romantic chord within me, and I became fascinated by the machines that engineers and scientists created, and the men who strapped into them to soar into the stratosphere.
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The final X-15 flight occurred in October of 1968, a full three years before I was even born, so it wasn’t like it was a program that was present during my upbringing.
There is no real reason I should have a fascination with the X-15 project. We hope you enjoy the return of the series.
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We briefly resurrected a similar format with an article a couple of years ago ( View It / Do It: Cactus 1549) where we took a look at the movie “Sully” and gave readers a good look at how they could recreate the conditions that the Hudson Miracle aircraft faced. It’s long been a desire of mine to dig up the old “Read It / Do It” format that I used to write articles many years ago at another site. Take a ride in a marvel of aerospace engineering that helped pave the road to space with the hypersonic North American X-15 rocket powered research aircraft.
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