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North American X-15. Aurora Plastic Scale Models trading card illustration detail - 1960.

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America’s supersonic rocket plane: the Bell X-1.

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Restricted. Langley Field - 1947.

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Restricted. Langley Field - 1947.

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Without the X-1, there'd have been no X-15 and I'd be sad. The X-15 is nearly the ultimate in impractical, solely proof-of-concept vehicles in an entire grouping of aircraft that were of only questionable utility (other than as developmental phases), known as rocket planes.

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