USAF X-15 Socks Guynermer The 1959 was the most

The 1959 was the most remarkable for sure

the Blackbird leaves a hole that has yet to be filled

The Lancaster had a very tough and durable airframe

It gained a reputation for consistently being able to fly the return journey on only two engines

USAF X-15 Socks Guynermer The 1959 was the mostIf the X 1 knocked on the door, the X 15 kicked it down. Part aircraft, part spacecraft, all attitude: the black North American X 15 hit Mach 6. 7 and climbed past the edge of space its pilots, a quiet engineer named Neil Armstrong among them, earned astronaut wings without ever boarding a rocket. Its ink black skin shrugged off temperatures that would melt aluminium. Our X 15 Socks capture that menacing silhouette in deep black with yellow NASA