The North American X-15 flew 199 research missions from 1959 to 1968, setting records that still stand and building the engineering foundation for every U.S. crewed spacecraft that followed.
VectorThe North American X-15 set speed and altitude records that still stand today while generating the hypersonic research data that made Apollo and the Space Shuttle possible.
VectorOn August 6, 1955, Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled a 100,000-pound prototype jet over Lake Washington - and in doing so, sold the airplane that launched the jet age.
TaildraggerThe North American X-15 holds the all-time speed record for a winged aircraft and sent eight pilots to space - records that have stood for nearly sixty years.
VectorHow Eric 'Winkle' Brown flew 487 aircraft types and made the first jet carrier landing in history.
TaildraggerHow Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the $16 million Dash 80 prototype over Seattle in 1955 and sold the world on the jet age.
TaildraggerThe story of Bob Hoover, the 'pilot's pilot' who poured iced tea while barrel-rolling and stole a Focke-Wulf to escape a WWII POW camp.
TaildraggerThe story of Bob Hoover - POW escapee, X-1 backup pilot, and the airshow legend who poured iced tea during a barrel roll.
TaildraggerHow Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Dash 80 prototype over Lake Washington in 1955 and helped launch the jet age.
TaildraggerHow British aerobatic champion Neil Williams saved a Zlin with a folded wing in 1970 by flying it inverted and landing upside down.
TaildraggerHow Bob Hoover poured iced tea while rolling a twin-engine Shrike Commander upside down - and what it teaches every pilot about energy management.
TaildraggerHow Bob Hoover poured iced tea mid-barrel-roll and flew dead-stick loops in a business twin - the story of aviation's greatest stick-and-rudder pilot.
TaildraggerThe North American X-15 flew to Mach 6.7 and the edge of space, pioneering the hypersonic and reentry technology behind every spacecraft that followed.
VectorRadio Hangar explores Tex Johnston Rolls the Dash Eighty, the Day Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Barrel-Rolled a Jet Transport Over Lake Washington to Sell the Jet Age.
TaildraggerOn August 7, 1955, Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston rolled a prototype jet airliner twice over Lake Washington, executing one of the most consequential demonstrations in aviation history.
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