The X-15 Research Rocket Airplane: A Step into Space at Six Times the Speed of Sound
Friday, October 14, 2016 4:00 p.m. in ETC 4.150 Professor Ronald L. Panton Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin www.me.utexas.edu The X-15 Airplane was carried aloft under the wing of a B-52 bomber. After being released it started a rocket motor for a flight and then returned to an unpowered landing…