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dronescapesvideos · 6 months
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X-15 rocket aircraft. "The Right Stuff". From Pearl Harbor to test pilot, to the Apollo program. A rare interview with Scott Crossfield
VIDEO ➤➤https://youtu.be/x5ALRclpguQ
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deutschland-im-krieg · 2 months
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The components that made up the A4 (V2) rocket, the world's first long-range ballistic missile. The V2's engine was 17 times more powerful than the largest contemporary rocket engine. It propelled the 13.5 tonne V2 to Mach 5 (6,175kph/3,836mph) before the rocket shut off at an altitude of 80km (50 mi) or 264,000 ft. Fun fact, the curvature of the earth was first seen after a captured V2 was launched post-war by the US with a camera attached
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nocternalrandomness · 11 months
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Neil Armstrong photographed 9 Dec, 1960  next to the North American X-15 ship #1
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Lockheed U-2 Reconnaissance aircraft
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On September 13, 1985, Major Doug Pearson made history when he destroyed a satellite with a missile launched from his F-15.
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Declassfied Footage From U2 Spy Plane
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North American X-15 Rocket-powered aircraft
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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Strategic reconnaissance aircraft
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Lockheed NF-104A Aerospace Trainer
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lonestarflight · 5 months
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Cancelled Missions: X-15 Blue Scout
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"American air-launched orbital launch vehicle. In March 1962, NASA proposed an orbital launch vehicle using the B-52/X-15 combination. A Blue Scout booster would be fitted to an extendable launch rail on the belly of the X-15. The X-15 would be air-launched from the B-52, and then itself air-launch the Blue Scout well above the earth's atmosphere.
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Status: Design 1962.
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The proposal was rejected due to concerns over safety and economics (despite it being promoted as a low-cost launch system)."
Information from Astronautix.com: link
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bigglesworld · 1 year
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Johnson Rocket 185. First flew in 1946. Only 18  built. A post-WWII, P-39 look-alike, high performance AC, but with only 2 or 3-seats
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telogreika · 2 months
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火星炮!发射!
庆祝换新装😎😎😎
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usafphantom2 · 1 day
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This week in 1960, test pilot Joe Walker flew the Museum's North American X-15 (56-6670) on his first free flight in the X-15. He would go on to pilot the X-15 two dozen times, including two flights over the Kármán line. #AirSpacePhoto
@airandspace via X
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admiralnelsoniii · 4 months
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The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It is the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft in history as well as the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1,000 kilometres per hour (620 mph) in level flight.
Credited with the destruction of between nine and 18 Allied aircraft against ten losses.
Armament
Guns:
2 × 30 mm (1.181 in) Rheinmetall Borsig MK 108 cannon with 60 rpg (B-1a)
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2 × 20 mm (0.787 in) MG 151/20 cannon with 100 rpg (Ba-1 / B-0 pre-production aircraft)
Germany started small-scale combat operations with the Me 163B in May 1944. The Me 163B's unsurpassed velocity was something Allied fighter pilots were at a loss to counter. The Komets attacked singly or in pairs, often even faster than the intercepting fighters could dive. A typical Me 163 tactic was to fly vertically upward through the bombers at 9,000 m (30,000 ft), climb to 10,700–12,000 m (35,100–39,400 ft), then dive through the formation again, firing as they went. This approach afforded the pilot two brief chances to fire a few rounds from his cannons before gliding back to his airfield. The pilots reported it was possible to make four passes on a bomber, but only if it was flying alone. According to the historian Mano Ziegler, Nazi officials were allegedly considering using the Me 163 to directly ram into enemy aircraft in suicide attacks; this desperate tactic was never actually used.
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planeyboys · 1 year
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thunderBORDS are GO 
LICENSED stickers here!!
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whirlybirdwhat · 2 years
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my dad offering support as i go off to college for the first time: its not rocket science!
me, studying aerospace engineering:
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dronescapesvideos · 5 months
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American soldiers outside St. Leonhard, Austria, take a Bachem Ba 349 Natters and rocket engine parts into custody. May 1945
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One of a handful of photos taken of the Messerschmitt Me 163B Komet rocket fighter in action. Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress in foreground. Location and date unknown. Footage of this was used in Humphrey Bogart's 1950 film, Chain Lightning. Look me up on Facebook, Eagles Of The Reich
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nocternalrandomness · 12 days
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German Messerschmitt Me 163B Komet at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio
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alphamecha-mkii · 1 year
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Saturn Upper Stage Booster Recovery Concepts by Douglas Aircraft Company (Philip Bono)
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lonestarflight · 5 months
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Concept Art of the North American X-15 Delta wing variant.
"Into The Unknown" by Don Dwiggins, Golden Gate Books, 1971
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