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Nice. Thank you.
(I had the opportunity to meet Pete Knight when he was an elected offical — I was very impressed.)
It was quite a ride.
If there had not been an X-15, the SR-71 would still be one of Kelly Johnson’s unfullfilled pipe dreams.
One of the great things about the X-15 program was there was so little money to play with, as opposed to today when the knee jerk reaction to a problem is to throw more $$$ at it. Also, the scientists assigned were well aware that there is much more to learn from what went wrong during a test than what went right.
The US got a tremendous return on the $$$ invested is this little known, often forgotten test aircraft.
Jack.