Mothership "Balls Three" overflies an X-15

[heywooood]

https://i.imgur.com/oPCKjUY.jpg?1

NASA archive photo...

[YoYo]

Both = beauties! :wavey:

[heywooood]

https://i.imgur.com/o1so5zR.jpg?1

let's go see what that ol' "envelope" is about...

[heywooood]

scale models used to be vital to these projects..many say they are still an essential component

I wonder what has happened to many of these. Certainly some are in the Smithsonian archive - or at least I hope so
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/16374998585/

[heywooood]

pioneers, daredevils, scientists, and explorers...living outside of convention and conformity is often vilified by society, but is essential for human endeavor.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/30598528305/

[dvj]

Love that NASA truck with the antenna on the roof. Old school.

-d

[heywooood]

M2-F2 lifting body...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/9458060787/

[heywooood]

and the more recent iteration - with an important role

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/4857948609/

[heywooood]

Neil poses with the X-15

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/9460842898/

[heywooood]

1960's technology was just barely enough to get us to the moon...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/15708312843/in/photostream/

[Bjoern]

"Barely enough", lol. All the technological advances ever since didn't even get us out of low Earth orbit.

[FlyingsCool]

Love that NASA truck with the antenna on the roof. Old school.

-d

I had to check to make sure it wasn't an ice cream truck... Which it might very well have been in a previous life....

[heywooood]

I bet in the summertime at Dryden it was both..

[heywooood]

"Barely enough", lol. All the technological advances ever since didn't even get us out of low Earth orbit.

well..this isn't exactly chopped liver
https://www.space.com/mars-rovers.html

[Bjoern]

well..this isn't exactly chopped liver
https://www.space.com/mars-rovers.html

With "us", I meant humans. Meatbags. 70% water, 30% stupidity and a brain cell. The self-proclaimed "pinnacle of evolution".

[heywooood]

With "us", I meant humans. Meatbags. 70% water, 30% stupidity and a brain cell. The self-proclaimed "pinnacle of evolution".

from the Renaissance forward mankind is devolving..

we search the stars for sentient life while denying it exists, even on this planet, save for ourselves..and yet

https://i.imgur.com/osUByij.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/QbjMGTe.jpg

[Javis]

Mothership "Balls Three" overflies an X-15
Well, atleast that's another kettle of fish compared to the N3N, Heywoood. You're a true Jack of all trades, aren't you. Mind you, i certainly am too, you know. :cool:

Say, that guy in the trenchcoat near the X-15, he's not doing what it looks like he's doing, is he ??.... ( i know the X-15 runs on some extreme fuel..)

Say(2) ,if you haven't got it by any chance already you'd want to check this out : https://xtremeprototypes.com/en/product_x15a-2_se.asp Very well done product with a truckload of features including wonderful realistic rocketmotor start-up procedure. Everything you always wanted to know about the X-15 but were afraid to ask. This is it. Deffinately.

cheers,
jan

edit: absolutely fantastic photo's of two of the cleverest animals here on earth. Thanks for sharing. :encouragement:

[heywooood]

Say, that guy in the trenchcoat near the X-15, he's not doing what it looks like he's doing, is he ??.... ( i know the X-15 runs on some extreme fuel..)

Say(2) ,if you haven't got it by any chance already you'd want to check this out : https://xtremeprototypes.com/en/product_x15a-2_se.asp Very well done product with a truckload of features including wonderful realistic rocketmotor start-up procedure. Everything you always wanted to know about the X-15 but were afraid to ask.
edit: absolutely fantastic photo's of two of the cleverest animals here on earth. Thanks for sharing. :encouragement:

the software does indeed look interesting, if a bit pricey (I like to keep things under $30 per) Thinking of the missions written for FSX when I saw this photo of "Balls Three" and thought it would be great to have some of these speed and altitude tests, maybe as part of a package including the Bell X-1, This X-15, the lifting bodies etc.. and their support equipment. Maybe set the entire gamut of tests from say 1958-1968 complete with comms and target area with a run down of the telemetry and a 'score sheet' at the end of each test flight.

Now THAT I would pay a bit extry for.

To answer your initial remark, yes - I am deeply interested in all aspects of human achievement in flight. Hopefully we haven't seen anything yet..time will tell.
..then - of course - there's whatever THIS is.. https://coi.tothestarsacademy.com/gimbal

[Dutcheeseblend]

NASA archive photo...

Hey,

Could you provide a link to the original image, please? I can't find it myself and I'd like to see if there's a higher resolution.

Thanks!

[heywooood]

It came up in my twitter news feed (I follow NASA) as an archive collection from the Dryden flight research center on the day I posted it (and the other photo’s)
searching at NASA and at the Dryden sites today have been unsuccessful.
I did not bookmark the pages or save the links - sorry

[Dutcheeseblend]

Okay, thank you anyway ;)

[Penz]

Hey,

Could you provide a link to the original image, please? I can't find it myself and I'd like to see if there's a higher resolution.

Thanks!
Here you go: https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-15/HTML/EC61-0034.html

The Dryden photo collection: https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-15/index.html

:ernaehrung004:

[ryanbatc]

What a pic!

[Dutcheeseblend]

What a pic indeed!

Thanks Penz!!

[heywooood]

you all are poking through ALL of the photo's in the links I posted previously in this thread...? yes?

because some of those -when enlarged or 'zoomed in' - are fairly incredible and in actual high definition..noting that current camera lens and film technology is vastly superior to that from 1962...