A one-twentieth scale model of the X-15; originally suspended beneath the wing of a B-52 is observed by a scientist of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as it leaves the bomber model in tests to determine the release characteristics and drop motion of the research airplane. Caption: "The aerodynamics of air launching the North American X-15 being investigated in the High Speed 7x10 FT Tunnel, about 1957." Photograph and caption published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. Hansen (page 366). Photograph also published in Sixty Years of Aeronautical Research 1917-1977 By David A. Anderton. A NASA publication (page 49).
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A one-twentieth scale model of the X-15; originally suspended beneath the wing of a B-52 is observed by a scientist of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as it leaves the bomber model in tests to determine the release characteristics and drop motion of the research airplane. Caption: "The aerodynamics of air launching the North American X-15 being investigated in the High Speed 7x10 FT Tunnel, about 1957." Photograph and caption published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. Hansen (page 366). Photograph also published in Sixty Years of Aeronautical Research 1917-1977 By David A. Anderton. A NASA publication (page 49).
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