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The Mach 6.7 X-15 Rocket Plane Has A Message for the U.S. Air Force

America built the X-15 to get flight data in the unknown between airplanes and spacecraft. -The rocket-powered, Inconel-X research plane, air-dropped from a B-52 and driven by a throttleable XLR99, ...
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Fargo’s most unlikely stowaway becomes ‘toast’ of the town

In 1940, a 12-year-old boy boarded a plane unnoticed in Seattle and landed in time to have breakfast with the Fargo police.