The American X-planes were part of the romance of the heyday of post-war aviation with test pilots like Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in the X-1 and a rival corps of astronauts flew into space in the X-15. As part of a 10-year plan proposed by the Obama administration, NASA Aeronautics' New Aviation Horizons program wants to revive the X-planes for the 21st century as demonstrators for emerging, greener flight technologies.
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1 comment:
Actually if we look at the X-43 scramjet in 2001 to the X-56 to 2012 you can't really say that X-planes are something to "revive" "for the 21st century".
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