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X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight by Dana William H. is a hobbies available to read on EtoBox.
What is X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight about?
NASA, 2010. – 740 p. This 700+ page book is part of the NASA HISTORY SERIES. A history of the design and achievements of the high-speed, 1950s-era X-15 airplane. FROM THE FORWARD BY WILLIAM H. DANA: The X-15 was an airplane of accelerations. When an X-15 pilot looks back on his X-15 flights, it is the accelerations he remembers. The first of these sensations was the acceleration due to B-52 lift, which held the X-15 at launch altitude and prevented it from falling to Earth. When the X-15 pilot hit the launch switch, the B-52 lift was no longer accessible to the X- 15. The X-15 fell at the acceleration due to Earth’s gravity, which the pilot recognized as free fall or zero g. Only when the pilot started the engine and put some g on the X-15 was this sensation of falling relieved. The next impression encountered on the X-15 flight came as the engine lit, just a few seconds after launch. A 33,000-pound airplane was accelerated by a 57,000-lbf engine, resulting in a chest-to-back acceleration of almost 2 g. Then, as the propellant burned away and the atmosphere thinned with increasing altitude, the chest-to-back acceleration increased and the drag caused by the atmosphere lessened. Fo
Who reads X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight?
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- Author
- Dana William H.
- Publisher
- NASA
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Category
- hobbies
- Subjects
- Engineering, Technology, Aerospace Engineering
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (119 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14