X-15

Cleared Direct Aug 25, 2026

The North American X-15, the Rocket Plane That Flew to Space, and the Eight Pilots Who Earned Astronaut Wings Without Ever Riding a Capsule

The 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.

Vector

Cleared Direct Jul 31, 2026

The North American X Fifteen, the Rocket Plane That Flew to the Edge of Space on Stubby Wings and Taught Us How to Fly Where the Air Runs Out

The 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.

Vector

Cleared Direct Jul 28, 2026

The Karman Line, Sixty-Two Miles Up, and the Altitude Where Wings Quit and Rockets Take Over

Radio Hangar explores The Karman Line, Sixty-Two Miles Up, and the Altitude Where Wings Quit and Rockets Take Over.

Vector

Cleared Direct Jul 26, 2026

The Mothership and Air-Launch to Orbit - Stratolaunch's Roc, the Six-Engine Giant That Turns a Runway Into a Spaceport, Told From the Innovation Hangars at Oshkosh

How Stratolaunch's Roc, the world's largest-wingspan aircraft, turns a runway into a spaceport through air-launch.

Vector

The Hangar Jul 20, 2026

Neil Armstrong the Aviator - The Navy Panther, the X-15, and the Pilot Behind Tranquility Base

Before Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong was a Navy combat pilot and X-15 test pilot - and that flying is what got him to the moon.

Taildragger

ATIS May 27, 2026

From the Bell X one to Mach six, the machines that punched through the sound barrier

Eight aircraft defined supersonic flight from Chuck Yeager's Mach 1 in 1947 to the X-15's Mach 6.7 record that still stands today.

Tower