X-15: The NASA Mission Reports: Apogee Books Space Series 13 [With CDROM]

The X-15 program, which produced mountains of new information about hypersonic flight, is thoroughly outlined in this volume. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896522653
• ISBN13: 9781896522654
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Collector's Guide Publishing
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Amazing Rocket Plane

This book presents information on the X-15 in a great format. The contents include two versions of the flight manual and a version of the manual on pilot rescue. The CD is a great addition to the book. It is wonderful to see the X-15 in flight. If you want an understanding of the X-15, this is the book to get!

The Flight Manuals alone are worth the price!

I collect Flight Manuals for aircraft, with particular emphasis on those that I'll never get to fly (SR-71, B-17, Apollo CSM, F-16, B-737, etc.) This book includes the Interim Flight Manual for the X-15, with procedures, system descriptions, etc.It also include a great deal of information from the proposals and plans used to develop it. I haven't even gotten to the CD-ROM yet.If you're an airplane geek, and want to know how this stuff worked, I strongly recommend this.

In-deep Technical Information

This is the first book on The NASA Mission Reports series, which includes a user's manual on the X-15 and even information about the contractors. The book includes the original NAA document on the proposed X-15 during 1950's.The other books (Apollo) on these series do not includes user manuals or contractor information.Excelent book!

Collection of NASA X-15 documents

For the book "X-15" (The NASA Mission Reports) Editor Robert Godwin collected all important documents from NASA about the "X-15": These are: Biographies, Development of the X-15 Research Aircraft 1954-1959, Bi-Annual Reports to Congress, Nort American proposal, Interim Flight Manual, Utility Flight Manual, X-15 Pilot Rescue Manual, X-15 Flight Log, X-15 The Movie Correspondence, X-15 Accident Report, X-15 Press Release and X-15 Contractor Advertisments The book also contains 8 all-color-pages and hundreds of technical drawings, diagramms and tables. But the best (as always) is the included CD-Rom that features some NASA-Footage, Documets, an interview with Bill Dana, Fligt Logs, Transcipts, books (!) and a VR-Quicktime-model of the X-15. It is important to notice that this is not an dramatic pocket book with test-pilot-heroes (like Neil Armstrong (!) ) but a collection of technical NASA-documents. But why a book about a X-plane in a series of books about spaceflight? The X-15 was the plane that flew to the edge of space and broke some altitude and speed records and gave important impulses for the development of the Space Shuttle. This book shouldn`t be missing in any aerospace-library and is essential for any technical interested people.