North American Aviation  X-15

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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
    History office
    Gallery

Edwards Air Force Base The Edwards AFB web site has been replaced with entirely new content. These sections from the old web site contents no longer exist, perhaps they will return:     History     Gallery            X-Planes
US Air Force Museum       The Air Force Museum web site has been replaced with an entirely new web site.       Previous references to sections such as the R&D Gallery or the Modern Flight Gallery       no longer locate X-15 content, and the X-planes may now be split among multiple galleries.       For now the only clearly available information is in one fact sheet page,            X-15A-2 fact sheet
Goleta Air and Space Museum       Forty Years ago in the X-15 Flight Test Program      X-15 and its NB-52 Carrier Aircraft
JP Colliat's X-15 Site     ...  the best X-15 site on the web          [Entirely in French, a good reason for English speakers            to cultivate reading skills in other languages]

Flights of Discovery
    The X-15 (chapter 3)
    by Lane E. Wallace

The Hypersonic Revolution
    Case Studies in the History of Hypersonic Technology
     Excerpt about X-15, from Volume I,  @ NASA Headquarters web site:
         Transiting from Air to Space:  The North American X-15
         by Robert S. Houston, Richard P. Hallion, Ronald G. Boston
     Full text, @ Government Printing Office web site:
         Volume I    From Max Valier to Project PRIME    (1924 - 1967)
             Edited by Dr.Richard P. Hallion
         Volume II    From Scramjet to the National Aero-Space Plane  (1964 - 1986)
             Edited by Dr. Richard P. Hallion
         Volume III    The Quest for the Orbital Jet: The National Aero-Space Plane Program (1983 - 1995)
              by Dr. Larry Schweikart  

On the Frontier
    The X-15 Era: 1959 - 1968  (chapter 6)
    by Richard Hallion

Proceedings of the X-15 First Flight 30th Anniversary Celebration

X-15 Research Results With a Selected Bibliography
    by Wendell H. Stillwell

Toward Mach 2:  The Douglas D-558 Program     edited by J. D. Hunley
Wingless Flight:  The Lifting Body Story     by R. Dale Reed
The Hypersonic Revolution     Case Studies in the History of Hypersonic Technology          Volume I    From Max Valier to Project PRIME    (1924 - 1967)              Edited by Dr.Richard P. Hallion          Volume II    From Scramjet to the National Aero-Space Plane  (1964 - 1986)              Edited by Dr. Richard P. Hallion          Volume III    The Quest for the Orbital Jet:         The National Aero-Space Plane Program (1983 - 1995)               by Dr. Larry Schweikart