Selected Bibliography
These books and films provided us with invaluable information during the development of the X-15A-2 Special Edition addon and we highly recommend them to all X-15 fans:
Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X-15
Dennis R. Jenkins, Tony Landis
Publisher: Specialty Press (2003)
Hardcover: 276 pages
ISBN: 158007068X
Tony R. Landis
Publisher: Specialty Press (2003)
Paperback: 108 pages
ISBN: 1580070744
X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight (with CD-ROM)
Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher: NASA (2007)
Hardcover: 681 pages.
ISBN: 9780160792854
At the Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program
Milton O. Thompson
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (2003)
Paperback: 375 pages
ISBN: 1588340783
The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space
Michelle Evans
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (2013)
Hardcover: 451 pages
ISBN: 9780803228405
X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots who Ushered in the Space Age
John Anderson and Richard Passman
Publisher: Zenith Press and Smithsonian Institution (2014)
Hardcover: 144 pages
ISBN: 9780760344453
X-15: The NASA Mission Reports (with CD-ROM)
(contains two reprints of the X-15/X-15A-2 flight manuals)
Robert Godwin (Editor)
Publisher: Apogee Books (2000)
Paperback: 408 pages
ISBN: 1896522653
North American X-15 Rocket Plane Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions
(reprint)
Publisher: Periscope Films (2006)
Paperback: 120 pages
ISBN: 1411698246
The X-Planes: X-1 to X-45 (3rd Edition)
(not only about the X-15)
Jay Miller
Publisher: Midland (2001)
Hardcover: 440 pages
ISBN: 1857801091
X-Planes Photo Scrapbook (Paperback)
(not only about the X-15)
Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher: Specialty Press (2004)
Paperback: 144 pages
ISBN: 1580070760
(over 10 hours of rare film footage, NASA documentaries and contractor films on the X-15)
Studio: Spacecraft Films
DVD Release Year: 2006
Run Time: Over 10 hours (3 DVDs)
Without Limits: NASA Test Projects
(not only about the X-15)
Documentary series (1997)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Release Year: 2002
Run Time: 150 minutes
(not only about the X-15)
Documentary series (2003)
Studio: Casablanca Media TV
DVD Release Year: 2004
Run Time: 540 minutes (3 DVDs)
(not about the X-15, but a must for anyone interested in supersonic flight, the Bell X-1 rocket plane and the XLR-11 engine)
Documentary (1996)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Release Year: 2001
Run Time: 60 minutes
Research Project X-15 (video, NASA short)
US Air Force X-15 Hypersonic Aircraft (video)
X-15A-2 Flight Test with External Fuel Tanks (video)
X-15A-2 Side View of Damage After Mach 6.7 Flight (video)
X-15A-2 Approach and Landing (video)
Lecture at the National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution by X-15 pilot Bill Dana
Joe Engle: The X-15, the Pilot and the Space Shuttle
North American X-15A-2 (National Museum of the USAF)
X-15 Walkaround (Smithsonian Air & Space)
Fact Sheet: X-15 Hypersonic Research Program
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