You already know how much I dig history (both recent and ancient), and also that I'm a technology buff.
You may also know that getting a pilot's license is one of the three things remaining on my Top Ten List of Things to Do before I Die. Aeronautics rock. I want to line up a runway while I'm skewed by a 20 MPH crosswind and have to crab it in. Yep. I do.
Anyway, sorry for the tangent. CNET posted a really nifty collection of photographs and blurbs about the 1950s X15.
I often think that I should have been born 'round 1930 and hitting my stride in the late 40's. What a time to have been alive! Men wore suits and hats, women wore skirts and heels, and it was the golden age of opportunity in America. *sigh*
Scott Crossfield must have had huge cojones.
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