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	North American Aviation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North American's follow-on to the BT-9 was the T-6 Texan trainer, of which 17,000 were built, making it the most widely used trainer ever.
		North American Aviation, Inc. was an aircraft manufacturer from the 1930s to 1967, when it merged with Rockwell-Standard Corporation to become North American Rockwell Corporation.
		The upshot was that North American became a manufacturing company run by James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger (who had been recruited from Douglas Aircraft Company), although it retained Eastern Airlines until 1938.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_American_Aviation (638 words)

	North American Aviation
		The X-15s made a total of 199 flights, and were manufactured by North American Aviation.
		The North American B-45 Tornado was one of America's first operational bombers to use jet propulsion and was the first four-engine aircraft to fly in the United States.
		North American's first combat airplane, the BC-1, built in 1937, was based on the NA-16.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/NorthAmerican/Aero37.htm (1888 words)

	X-15 - Milestones of Flight
		he North American X-15, a rocket-powered research aircraft, bridged the gap between manned flight in the atmosphere and space flight.
		North American X-15A-1 - Aircraft of The Smithsonian
		The substructure of the X-15 is titanium with a covering of Inconel X, a nickel alloy capable of withstanding temperatures of 650° (1,200°).
	www.nasm.si.edu /galleries/gal100/X-15.html (337 words)

	North American X-15 experimental plane
		The wings of the X-15 were constructed of Inconel X skins over titanium frames and were bolted to the fuselage instead of being mounted to a main spar as was customary.
		North American received the airframe contract in November 1955, and Reaction Motors contracted in 1956 to build the engines.
		This speed range was called "hypersonic." On September 30, 1955, North American Aviation was awarded a contract to develop an aircraft to conduct this research.
	members.chello.nl /~w.bergmans/info/x15.htm (1813 words)

	North American F-100B/F-107
		On May 16, 1954, North American directed that all work on the F-100B interceptor project be terminated and that all efforts now be concentrated on the fighter-bomber adaptation.
		North American apparently responded to this requirement, but it is not quite sure how the F-107A fits into GOR-68.
		A similar innovation was adopted for the North American A3J (later A-5) Vigilante carrier-based strategic bomber.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher1/f100_4.html (2240 words)

	North American Aviation
		California representatives were also anxious to support North American's bid, given the state's dominance in the aerospace industry; Representative George Miller (D-CA) assumed the chairmanship of the House Space Committee after Overton Brooks died in 1961, and was not remiss in his support of North American's Downey, California plant.
		North American won the contracts for both the second stage booster (S-2) designed by von Braun's Marshall Space Center team, and for the Apollo Command module, the actual capsule that would carry the astronauts to the moon.
		North American used dozens of subcontractors for specific sub-systems of the Apollo Command module, including Honeywell, Northrop, and Lockheed, and attracted literally thousands of engineers and scientists from aerospace corporations and universities to assist in the effort.
	www.vcdh.virginia.edu /PVCC/mbase/docs/storms.html (533 words)

	North American Rockwell
		North American's second aircraft was the aircraft that became the AT-6 Texan, of which over 16,000 were produced.
		North American Aviation was formed in 1928 for the purposes of acquiring aviation oriented stocks and securities.
		North American Aviation merged with Rockwell-Standard (owner of Aero Commander) in 1967 to become North American Rockwell.
	www.shanaberger.com /namerican.htm (203 words)

	VON KARMAN
		North American X-15A-2, serial number 56-6671, is at the United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
		The North American X-15 rocket plane was built to meet that challenge.
		The X-15s made a total of 199 flights, and were manufactured by North American Aviation.
	www.tripolivegas.com /feature.html (695 words)

	The X-15 Hypersonic Flight Research Program
		Scott Crossfield, an engineering test pilot for North American (who had earlier been a Navy pilot and NACA research engineer) flew the contractor demonstration flights, including the first captive flight on March 10, 1959, the first glide flight on June 8, and the first powered flight (with the XLR-11 engines) on September 17.
		Negotiations with North American were stalled, however, by the company's concern over the proposed timeframe (it was at that time also building the F-107A and F-108 aircraft).
		Walker of NASA, A. Scott Crossfield of North American Aviation, and Forrest N. Petersen of the Navy.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-4219/Chapter6.html (6989 words)

	Crossfield
		From 1955 to 1961 he was the chief engineering test pilot for North American Aviation, Inc. The first man to fly at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2) in the D558-II in 1953, Crossfield reached Mach 2.11 and an altitude of 52,341 in the first powered flight of the X-15 in 1959.
		Thereafter was director of test and quality assurance for North American Aviation; later held positions with Easter Air Lines and as a Washington, DC consultant.
		Crossfield served as an executive for Eastern Airlines from 1967 to 1973, helping the company develop its technological applications, new aircraft specifications, and flight research programs.
	www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/astros/crofield.htm (1231 words)

	GPN-2000-001882 - North American X-15 Model
		North American Aircraft X-15 Boeing B-52 High Speed Tunnel Langley NACA
		A one-twentieth scale model of the X-15, originally suspended beneath the wing of a B-52, is observed by a scientist as it leaves the bomber model in tests to determine the release characteristics and drop motion of the research airplane.
		The test was conducted in the Langley High Speed 7 x 10 Foot Tunnel, around 1957.
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001882.html (67 words)

	North American
		The plane was sent back to North American for extensive repairs and modifications, and returned to Edwards in Feb 1964 as X-15A-2, with a longer fuselage (52'5") and external fuel tanks.
		North American AT-6A from Mather Field at Moffett Field CA.
		North American AJ-2 Civil borate bomber [N101Z] (1971 Aerospace Historian)
	aerofiles.com /_noram.html (5887 words)

	Transiting from Air to Space
		Following awarding of the X-15 development contract, North American had considered a so-called "X-15B" orbital spacecraft (even before Sputnik), to be launched by two Navaho boosters and possibly carry a two-astronaut crew.
		North American lengthened the aircraft, making numerous modifications to it, and added provisions for two large jettisonable external tanks.
		North American repaired the craft and returned it to NASA, but it never flew again.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/hyperrev-x15/ch-0.html (1426 words)

	Boeing: History -- Products - North American Aviation X-15 Research Aircraft
		The X-15 rocket research airplane was built by the Los Angeles (Calif.) Division of North American Aviation for the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
		Boeing: History -- Products - North American Aviation X-15 Research Aircraft
		Air Force Capt. William "Pete" Knight took the X-15A-2 to the fastest speed recorded during the program, Mach 6.7, during an Oct. 3, 1967 flight.
	www.boeing.com /history/bna/x15.htm (350 words)

	X-15
		North American Aviation's X-15 is one of the world's fastest and highest flying aircraft.
		After test flights in 1959, in 1967 the X-15 eventually reached Mach 6.72.
		Later, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
	www.grc.nasa.gov /WWW/K-12/aerosim/LessonHS97/X15.html (98 words)

	NORTH AMERICAN X-15
		Indeed, the X-15 design was so much like that of a space vehicle that during the formative days of Project Mercury, America’s first attempt to put a man in orbit, North American and NASA engineers gave serious consideration to utilizing a version of the X-15 for the manned orbiting mission.
		North American was selected as prime contractor on the project following a competition in which Douglas, Republic and Bell also participated.
		Air-launched from a modified Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft, the X-15 required conventional aerodynamic control surfaces to operate within the atmosphere and special "thruster" reaction control rockets located in the nose and wings of the aircraft to enable the pilot to maintain control when flying on the fringes of space.
	www.eaa.org /communications/eaanews/010615_x15.html (439 words)

	X-15, Aviation, X-15, aviation, Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia
		Date : 4/24/2006 Time : 11:44:26 PM The rocket-powered North American X-15 research aircraft (active 1964-68) has gone faster (Mach 6.72; 7,300 km/h; 4,534 mph) and higher (107,960 m/354,200 ft) than any other plane.
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	www.4to40.com /earth/science/htm/aviationindex.asp?counter=38 (74 words)

	UFOS at close sight: the X-15 Rocket Plane
		North American Aviation Incorporated was awarded the contract for the new research vehicle, the X-15.
		The X-15 made its public appearance on 15 October 1958 at North American's Los Angeles facility and the first of the three X-15s arrived at Edwards AFB two days later.
		On May 11, 1962 NASA pilot Joseph Walker said that one of his tasks was to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights.
	ufologie.net /htm/x15.htm (618 words)

	AVIATION ART HANGAR - Faster and Higher by Stan Stokes (X-15)
		The North American X-15 research aircraft, the most succesful research aircraft in history, has flown faster and higher than any manned aircraft.
		On the aircraft's first non-powered flight on June 8, 1959, North American's test pilot Scott Crossfield had his hands full trying to land the X-15.
		Powered by a rocket motor generating 57,000 pounds of thrust by burning a combination of liquid oxygen and anhydrous ammonia, the X-15 was launched from a specially modified B-52 mother ship for each of its flights.
	www.aviationarthangar.com /fandhixavart.html (716 words)

	Downey Space Race Center, North American X-15, Charlie Feltz, Dale Myers, Hound Dog Missile, Little Joe Launch Vehicle
		In 1961, President John F. Kennedy called for..."a new American enterprise, that of placing a man on the moon and returning him before the decade is out." At the time, America's experience with man in space amounted to little more than 15 minutes of Alan Shephard's sub-orbital ride in a Mercury capsule.
		North American suffered only a temporary setback in the government's cancellation of the Navaho missile project in July of 1957.
		The contract was awarded North American in October 1958, two and a half years after the Strategic Air Command had realized its need.
	www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.org /page11.html (855 words)

	X-15
		North American also proposed an X-15B (never built) which could have taken off vertically, flown a single orbit around the earth, then returned and been ditched in the ocean after the pilot had ejected.
		The North American X-15 was the first plane which could actually be flown into space.
		The X-15 hull is made of Iconel X, a special steel alloy (steel and nickel) made by International Nickel Company.
	www.worldspaceflight.com /america/x-15.htm (498 words)

	X-15A
		Manufactured by North American Aviation, Inc., three rocket-powered X-15's flew a total of 199 times, with North American (and former National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or NACA) pilot Scott Crossfield making the first, unpowered glide flight on June 8, 1959.
		First of a series of three X-15 experimental rocket-powered manned research aircraft was rolled out at the Los Angeles plant of North American Aviation, Inc., in the joint USAF-USN-NASA program.
		A North American team headed by Chief Project Engineer Charles Feltz designed the aircraft, with technical guidance from the NACA's Langley Aeronautical Laboratory (later NASA's Langley Research Center) and High-Speed Flight Station (as Dryden was then called).
	www.astronautix.com /craft/x15a.htm (5769 words)

	North American Aviation
		In 1966, North American Aviation merged with Rockwell Standard to form North American Rockwell, which, in 1976, was renamed Rockwell International.
		Earlier, North American Aviation had provided some of the best-known combat planes of World War II and the postwar years, including the F-51 Mustang, the B-52 Mitchell bomber, and the F-86 Sabre.
		It was responsible for the development of the X-15 rocket plane and, through its Rocketdyne Division, the propulsion system for the Redstone rocket, the Apollo Command and Service Modules, the second stage of the Saturn V, and the F-1 and J-2 rocket engines.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/North_American_Aviation.html (196 words)

	North American History - Chronology
		North American Space Division was the prime contractor for the Apollo spacecraft and the docking module used on the mission.
		April 29: North American is awarded the contract for the Navaho missile program.
		December: North American leases the Downey plant to build the AJ-1 Navy Bomber, AT-6G trainer and the T-28 trainer.
	www.boeing.com /history/bna/chron.html (1474 words)

	North American X-15 model airplane rocket
		The North American X-15 is considered the most remarkable and most valuable research vehicle to have been developed within the X-series of USAF/USN sponsored experimental aircraft.
		The X-15 was designed to be air launched beneath the wing of a B-52, and made its first powered flight on September 17, 1959.
	www.imperialgiftline.com /models/e1148x3wc.html (158 words)

	Global Aircraft -- X-15
		The X-15A #2 was sent back to North American, where it went through extensive repairs and modifications.
		On March 10, 1959, North American pilot Scott Crossfield completed the first captive-carry flight under the B-52 mothership.
		The X-15 is one of the fastest and highest flying aircraft in the world, reaching a top speed of over mach 6.7 and an altitude of more than 350,000 ft.
	www.globalaircraft.org /planes/x-15_hyper.pl (365 words)

	Hypersonic: the story of the North American X-15
		One of the most fascinating aircraft ever developed was the North American X-15.
		Those four were Republic (who was working on the XF-103), Bell (who had designed the X-1 and X-2), Douglas (who had developed the Skyrocket) and North American (who was working on the XF-108).
		It was built solely to explore the limits of manned flight, and this was more than just going high or going fast, though those were surely part of its appeal.
	m2reviews.cnsi.net /scotts/books/x15.htm (636 words)

	XB-70.com Links
		North American X-15, a site in French with many great pictures.
		Transiting from Air to Space, the North American X-15.
		Aerodynamic and Properties Data Page for the North American Aviation X-15A.
	www.xb-70.com /hobby (218 words)

	X-15 Photo Scrapbook:Landis, Tony R.; Jenkins, Dennis R.:1580070744:eCampus.com
		The North American X-15 was the last in a line of manned rocket-powered research airplanes built during the 1950s to explore ever-faster and higher flight regimes.
		An in-depth history of the X-15 program may be found in Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X-15 by Dennis R. Jenkins and Tony R. Landis.
		This was an era before computers were commonplace, and the only way to investigate the unknown was to go there.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=1580070744&referrer=yah04 (205 words)

	X-15
		The hottest and fastest and highest-flying aircraft ever flown, the North American X-15 was developed in the 1950s to probe the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere, and beyond.
		The X-15 was a sleek, black rocketplane with short, stubby wings and a large tail.
		The X-15 contributed useful data to the early manned space program, but its greatest contribution was to the space shuttle program many years later.
	www.wilhelm-aerospace.org /Space/x-15/x-15.html (313 words)

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