X-15 tail, rear view

X-15 tail, rear view

View from directly aft of X-15 on the pylon of its B-52 carrier aircraft is a NASA photo.  This copy was retrieved from Files/pics/pic04.jpg on the CDROM published by Apogee Books and included with X-15 - The NASA Mission Reports. This photo shows the 1959/1960 interim configuration using a pair of XLR-11 rocket engines, each with four chambers, instead of the single XLR-99 rocket engine.


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