Hypersonic!
    The Story of the North American X-15
Dennis R. Jenkins
2003
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X-15 Photo Scrapbook
Tony R. Landis and Dennis R. Jenkins
2003
Specialtypress

This annotated photo collection is a companion to Hypersonic

At the Edge of Space    The X-15 Flight Program
Milton O. Thompson
1992 Smithsonian Institution Press

X-15   The NASA Mission Reports
Robert Godwin, editor
2000  Apogee Books
(includes computer-readable material on cdrom)

Hypersonics Before the Shuttle   A Concise History of the X-15 Research Airplane
Monographs in Aerospace History Number 18, NASA Publication SP-2000-4518
Dennis R. Jenkins
2000  NASA History Office

Aerofax Datagraph 2:   North American Aviation X-15/X-15A-2
Ben Guenther, Jay Miller, Terry Panopalis
1985, Aerofax, Inc.

Always Another Dawn
A. Scott Crossfield with Clay Blair, Jr.
1960 World Publishing, 1961 Hodder & Stoughton (British edition)
Lowe & Brydone (Printers) Ltd., for Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.

At the Edge of Space    The X-15 Flight Program
Milton O. Thompson
1992 Smithsonian Institution Press

Hypersonics Before the Shuttle   A Concise History of the X-15 Research Airplane
Monographs in Aerospace History Number 18, NASA Publication SP-2000-4518
Dennis R. Jenkins
2000  NASA History Office

Mike Mars Flies the X-15
Donald A. Wollheim
1961  Doubleday, Paperback Library
Fiction, plot based on X-15 flight program

Mike Mars South Pole Spaceman
Donald A. Wollheim
1962 Doubleday
Fiction, plot based on use of X-15's

Ninety Seconds to Space      The Story of the X-15
Jules Bergman
1960  Hanover House

Proceedings of the X-15 First Flight 30th Anniversary Celebration
NASA document # CP-3105
1991  NASA Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility

Rocketship X-15
Myron Gubitz
1960 Julian Messner

Space Ship    The Story of the X-15
Irwin Stambler
1961  G. P. Putnam's Sons

X-15
A. Scott Crossfield and Clay Blair, Jr.
1961  Arthaud
French translation of Always Another Dawn

X-15 Diary
Richard Tregaskis
1961, E.P. Dutton & Co

X-15 Flight Manual
North American Aviation
Reissued at new revision levels during the X-15 program (~ 1958-1968)
(2 versions reproduced in X-15  The NASA Mission Reports)

X-15   The NASA Mission Reports
Robert Godwin, editor
2000  Apogee Books
(includes computer-readable material on cdrom)

X-15     Research at the Edge of Space
NASA  publication # EP-9
1964  NASA

X-15 Research Results
Wendell Stillwell
NASA publication # SP-60
1965  NASA

5 Great Postwar American X-Planes  (X-Planes Pictoral-1)
Henry Matthews
1998  HPM Publications

Across the High Frontier
William R. Lundgren
1955 William Morrow, 1987 Bantam Books paperback

Aerofax Datagraph 3:   Bell X-1 Variants
Ben Guenther and Jay Miller
1988 Aerofax, Inc.

Air Force Supersonic Research Airplane XS-1
Report No. 1,  U-55038-74
1948  USAF

The Fastest Man Alive
Lt. Colonel Frank K. Everest, Jr. as told to John Guenther
1958   E.P. Dutton, 1986 Berkley Books (paperback)

Flying Without Wings
Milton O. Thompson and Curtis Peebles
1999  Smithsonian Institution Press

The Hypersonic Revolution
    Case Studies in the History of Hypersonic Technology
Volumes I and II edited by Dr. Richard P. Hallion
Volume III by Dr. Larry Schweikert
1987  Air Force History Support Office

Into the Unknown   The X-1 Story
Louis Rotundo
1994  Smithsonian Institution Press

Jet and Rocket Planes that made history
David C. Cooke
1961  G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Lonely Sky
William Bridgeman with Jacqueline Hazard
1955  Henry Holt and Company

Meeting the Challenge of Supersonic Flight
James O. Young
1997  Air Force Flight Test Center History Office, Edwards AFB

Mike Mars Flies the Dyna-Soar
Donald A. Wollheim
1962  Doubleday
Fiction, plot based on X-20 and other X-planes

On the Frontier    Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-1981
Richard P. Hallion
NASA publication # SP-4303
1984  NASA

The Quest for Mach One
Chuck Yeager, Bob Cardenas, Bob Hoover, Jack Russell, James Young
1997  The Penguin Group

Rocket Aircraft, USA
Erik Bergaust
1961  G.P. Putnam's Sons

Supersonic Flight    The Story of the Bell X-1 and Douglas D-558
Richard P. Hallion
1972  Smithsonian & Macmillan  first edition first printing

Winging into Space
Walter B. Hendrickson, Jr.
1965  The Bobbs-Merrill Company

The X-Planes    X-1 to X-31
Jay Miller
1988  Aerofax/Orion Books
Several different editions of this book exist, each augmenting
its predecessor's scope of coverage as new X-planes appear.

X-Planes at Edwards
Steve Pace
1995  MBI Publishing Company

X-Planes Photo Scrapbook
Dennis R. Jenkins
2004  Specialty Press

X-15 Rocket Plane   Those Daring Machines
Wilma S. Ross
1994  Crestwood House/MacMillan [Maxwell MacMillan]

Aerospace Pilot
Charles Coombs
1964  William Morrow and Company

American Heritage History of Flight
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. editor
1962  American Heritage Publishing Co.

American Space Digest
Foreword by Scott Crossfield
1963   Schick Safety Razor Company

Angle of Attack     Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon
Mike Gray
1992  W. W. Norton & Co.

Aviation and Space Medicine
Martin and Grace Caidin
1962  E. P. Dutton & Co.

Coupling Dynamics in Aircraft:  A Historical Perspective
Richard E. Day
NASA publication # SP-532
1997  NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket
Naval Fighters Number Fifty-seven
Scott Libis
2002 Steve Ginter

Edwards    Flight Test Center of the U.S.A.F.
John Ball, Jr.
1962  Meredith Press

Edwards Air Force Base    Experimental Flight Test Center
Steve Pace
1994  Motorbooks International

Expanding the Envelope
Michael H. Gorn
2001  The University Press of Kentucky

Famous Aircraft of All Time
Kenneth Munson
1977 Arco Publishing Co.

Fifty Years of Aerospace Research
NASA publication # EP-45
1967  NASA

Fifty Years of Flight Research: An Annotated Bibliography of Technical Publications of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, 1946-1996
NASA/TP-1999-206568
David F. Fisher
1999  NASA

First of the Spacemen -- Iven C. Kincheloe, Jr.
James J. Haggerty, Jr.
1960  Duell, Sloan and Pierce

Flights of Discovery  50 Years At the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Lane E. Wallace
NASA publication # SP-4309
1996  NASA History Office

Forever Flying
R.A. "Bob" Hoover with Mark Shaw
1996  Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster)

The High-Speed Frontier
John V. Becker
NASA publication #  SP-445
Case histories of four NACA programs, including high speed airfoils & transonic wind tunnels

Hugh L. Dryden's Career in Aviation and Space
Monographs in Aerospace History Number 5
Michael H. Gorn
1996  NASA History Office

Jane's Pocketbook 12:  Research and Experimental Aircraft
Compiled by Michael J.H. Taylor, edited by John W.R. Taylor
1976, Macdonald and Jane's

Lockheed NF-104A   Air Force Legends Number 204
Scott Libis
US Air Force

Model Research  Volume 1 and Volume 2
Alex Roland
NASA publication # SP-4103
History of NACA, emphasis on organizational & political history

Model Spacecraft Construction
Report submitted to NASA by California State College at Long Beach
1964, addendum submitted 1966  US Government Printing Office

Modern Airmanship
Neil D. Van Sickle, editor
1957, 1961, 1966  Van Nostrand

NASA Facts   NASA Flight Research Center
1967 public affairs short brochure, 4 pages

Open House '87 Edwards AFB    Forty Years of Supersonic Flight
Color glossy brochure from 1987 open house
1987  USAF

Press On
Chuck Yeager and Charles Leerhsen
1988  Bantam Books

Selected Examples of NACA/NASA Supersonic Flight Research
Edwin J. Saltzman and Theodore G. Ayers
NASA publication # SP-513
1995  NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

Skyrocketing into the Unknown
Charles Coombs
1954 William Morrow and Company

Space Shuttle
    The History of Developing the National Space Transportation System
    The Beginning through STS-75
Dennis R. Jenkins
1992  Published by Dennis R. Jenkins, printed by Walsworth Publishing Company

Space Shuttle
    An Illustrated History of Space Shuttle US winged spacecraft:
    X-15 to Orbiter
Melvyn Smith FBIS
1985  Haynes Publishing Group

Test Pilots
Gene Gurney (Lt. Col., USAF) editor
1965  E.M. Hale, 1st Cadmus edition, regular edition by Franklin Watts, Inc.

Test Pilots:  The Frontiersmen of Flight
Richard P. Hallion
1981  Doubleday

Tex Johnston  Jet-Age Test Pilot
A.M. "Tex" Johnston with Charles Barton
1991 Smithsonian Institution Press

Women in Flight Research at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center from 1946 to 1995
Sheryll Goecke Powers
Monographs in Aerospace History Number 6
2000  NASA

The World's Strangest Aircraft
Michael Taylor
1996  Regency House/Barnes & Noble

Yeager
Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos
1985  Bantam Books