Still the fastest airplane ever flown, the North American X-15 earned its title 40 years ago, when on October 3, 1967 Air Force Major William “Pete” Knight flew the rocket-powered aircraft to ...

Although the movie X-15, starring Charles Bronson and Mary Tyler Moore, is today viewed unfavorably by movie and aviation fans, it was well received by critics in November 1961. The Washington Eve ...

At the height of the Cold War during the 1960s the U.S. Air Force and NASA tested an experimental rocket-powered research aircraft code-named X-15.The X-15 experiments were conducted at Edwards ...