Summary The competition for the first space plane was won by a missile designer and new comer to the X-plane program, North American, with its X-15 design. It beat out the Navy's historical designer Douglas which proposed a design using a light weight magnesium alloy containing radioactive thorium that would stay cooler during the aircraft's brief atmospheric reentry. Ironically, although the Douglas design better fit the specification it lost out because follow on projects would more severally test the heat resistance of air/spacecraft and X-15 would be a better precursor to them.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Scott Manley
Genres : Documentary News
Release date : Dec 27, 2018
Countries of origin : United States
Official sites : Official YouTube channel
Language : English
Summary The competition for the first space plane was won by a missile designer and new comer to the X-plane program, North American, with its X-15 design. It beat out the Navy's historical designer Douglas which proposed a design using a light weight magnesium alloy containing radioactive thorium that would stay cooler during the aircraft's brief atmospheric reentry. Ironically, although the Douglas design better fit the specification it lost out because follow on projects would more severally test the heat resistance of air/spacecraft and X-15 would be a better precursor to them.
Genres : Documentary News
Release date : Dec 27, 2018
Countries of origin : United States
Official sites : Official YouTube channel
Language : English