Link to X-15 flight manual (PDF)

[b29flteng]

http://www.sierrafoot.org/x-15/document ... anual.html

[The Inspector]

Is that flight manual yours? That's quite the historical document!! Autographs of the first and last guys to fly the bird and the guy who holds the absolute altitude record for winged aircraft,
Scott, Pete, and Bob. WOW!! I am humbled

[b29flteng]

It's not mine.

I get weak in the knees when anything I see has to do with the X-15. I was just googling around and found it.

Yes the cover page would be worth a lot to the right person.

[The Inspector]

You and me both! I was on the ball enough (after owning the book for 40 years ) to send my treasured copy of 'Always Another Dawn' by Scott and get it autographed just months before he was lost to us. I've essentially the same info as the PDF has plus design competetion info in a monograph called 'X-15 the missions', hard to believe that the DOUGLAS proposal would have been made using magnesium skins (and going Mach 6 !?!).
Years ago a friend said that if it was legal, he figured I would have married the X-15.

[b29flteng]

Milt Thompson's book is a great history of it, with lots of side stories. The NASA website has two good histories, one is short and the other is quite long.

[b29flteng]

Two NASA X-15 history links.

http://history.nasa.gov/monograph18.pdf

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi. ... 004059.pdf

[Steve]

X-PLANE PILOTS HISTORY BOOK ON E-BAY ITEM #160533754231

[Avn-Tech]

Group,

I have also been a fan of the X-15 and collected anything I can find on the program.

I have a copy of the X-15 Flight manual (Comercial Reproduction).
A NASA copy of the crash report on accident that killed Maj Mike Adams.
I also several X-15 pilots signitures on the Air & Space Smithsonian book's photo of the X-15.

Laterrrrr
Avn-Tech