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Twelve pilots flew the X-15 over the course of its career. Scott Crossfield and William Dana flew the X-15 on its first and last free flights, respectively. Joseph Walker set the program's top two altitude records on its 90th and 91st free flights (347,800 and 354,200 feet, respectively), becoming the only pilot to fly past the Kármán line, the 100 kilometer, FAI-recognized boundary of outer ...
The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the 1960s, crossing the edge of outer space and returning with valuable data used in aircraft and spacecraft design. The X-15's highest speed, 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h; 2,021 m/s), [ 1 ] was achieved on 3 October 1967, [ 2 ] when William J. Knight flew at Mach 6.7 at an altitude of 102,100 feet ...
The altitude was the highest crewed flight by a spaceplane to that time, and remained the record until the 1981 flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. Walker landed the X-15 about 12 minutes after it was launched, at Rogers Dry Lake, Edwards Airforce Base, in California. This was Walker's final X-15 flight.
X-15: air-launched rocket plane: First human to reach the mesosphere. Last world altitude record before Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight Vostok 1. [54] 1961: April 28 113,891 ft 34,714 m Georgy Mosolov: Ye-66A Mig-21: turbojet & rocket: R-11: 1962: July 17 314,700 ft 95,900 m Robert Michael White: X-15: air-launched rocket plane: Not a C-1 FAI ...
Walker would go on to fly the X-15 25 times, [2] including the first flight of a human into the mesosphere, ... Human altitude record Mar 1961 – Apr 1961
The North American X-15's Flight 188 on October 3, 1967, was a record-setting flight. William J. Knight took the X-15A-2 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft to 102,100 feet (31,100 meters) over Mud Lake, Nevada when Flight 188 reached a record-setting top speed of 4,520 mph (7,270 km/h), Mach 6.70.
The X-15 was piloted by Joseph A. Walker to an altitude of 169,600 feet (51.7 km; 32.12 mi) surpassing the stratopause. [2] Thus Walker became the first human to reach the mesosphere. [3] This human altitude record lasted about two weeks, until Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space on Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. [4]
Aircraft records. 1 language. ... North American X-15 June 27, 1962 95,936 m (314,750 ft) USA Robert White North American X-15 July 17, 1962 1963