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English: The X-2, initially an Air Force program, was scheduled to be transferred to the civilian National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) for scientific research. The Air Force delayed turning the aircraft over to the NACA in the hope of attaining Mach 3 in the airplane. The service requested and received a two-month extension to qualify another Air Force test pilot, Capt. Miburn "Mel" Apt, in the X-2 and attempt to exceed Mach 3.
After several ground briefings in the simulator, Apt (with no previous rocket plane experience) made his flight on 27 September 1956. Apt raced away from the B-50 under full power, quickly outdistancing the F-100 chase planes. At high altitude, he nosed over, accelerating rapidly. The X-2 reached Mach 3.2 (2,094 mph) at 65,000 feet. Apt became the first man to fly more than three times the speed of sound. Still above Mach 3, he began an abrupt turn back to Edwards. This maneuver proved fatal as the X-2 began a series of diverging rolls and tumbled out of control. Apt tried to regain control of the aircraft. Unable to do so, Apt separated the escape capsule. Too late, he attempted to bail out and was killed when the capsule impacted on the Edwards bombing range. The rest of the X-2 crashed five miles away. The wreckage of the X-2 rocket plane was later taken to NACA's High Speed Flight Station for analysis following the crash. |
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Date | Taken on 21 November 1956 | |||
Source | NASA | |||
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Author | NASA |
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Headline | Wreckage of the X-2 rocket plane was taken to NACA's High Speed Flight Station for analysis following the 1956 crash that killed Air Force pilot Capt. Mel Apt |
Date and time of data generation | 21 November 1956 |
City shown | Edwards |
Width | 4,751 px |
Height | 3,881 px |
Bits per component | 8 |
Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | Black and white (Black is 0) |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 1 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 08:31, 10 July 2017 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Date and time of digitizing | 01:07, 21 September 2006 |
Date metadata was last modified | 01:31, 10 July 2017 |
Unique ID of original document | uuid:151AD1584AD911DBAB2CEA6D9451CAB9 |
Copyright status | Copyright status not set |
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Province or state shown | CA |
Country shown | USA |
Sublocation of city shown | AFRC |
IIM version | 4 |