Orders of Magnitude index

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

A

• Advent satellite
• Aerodynamics
  • boundary layer flow
• Aeronautical research
  • Blackbird program
  • flight testing
  • general aviation
  • Grumman X-29
  • Italy & Germany
• Ag-RISTARS remote sensing program
• Air Commerce Act of 1926
• Air Corps Enlisted Reserves
• Aircraft carriers
• Aircraft design
  • flight characteristics
• Aircraft Energy Efficiency program
• Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory
• Aircraft research platforms
  • Kuiper Airborne Observatory
• Airfoil research
  • GAW1
• Airline operations
  • fuel efficiency
• Airmail service
• Aldrin, Edwin E. "Buzz" Jr.
  • Apollo 11
• Allen, H. Julian
• American Rocket Society (formerly American Interplanetary Society)
• Ames Aeronautical Laboratory
• Apollo program
  • Apollo fire
  • Apollo fire review board
  • Apollo redesign
  • applications proposal
  • design
  • lunar orbit rendezvous
• Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)
• Apollo spacecraft
  • Apollo 4
  • Apollo 6
  • Apollo 7 (first manned Apollo flight)
  • Apollo 8
  • Apollo 9
  • Apollo 10
  • Apollo 11
  • Apollo 12
  • Apollo 13
  • Apollo 14
  • Apollo 15
  • Apollo 16
  • Apollo 17
  • lunar module
  • lunar module flight test
  • navigation system
• Armstrong, Neil A.
  • Apollo 11
• Army Air Service
• Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA)
  • Transfer to Nasa
• Army Corps of Engineers
  • Apollo facilities
• Arnold, General H.H. "Hap"
• Astronautics
• Astronaut manuevering unit
• Astronomy
  • Hubble Space Telescope
  • Skylab experiments
• Atomic bomb
• Autogyro
• Aviation industry
  • 1930's
  • NACA conferences
  • National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

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B

• B-17 Flying Fortress
• B-29 aircraft
• B-70 bomber aircraft
• Batteries
• Bazooka
• Bean, Allen L.
• Becker, John
• Beggs, James
• Bell Aircraft Corp.
  • Frank Whittle
  • XP-59
• Bell Helicopter Textron
• Bluford, Guion
• Boeing aircraft
  • B-47
  • C-135 transport
  • model 299
  • Vertol 76
• Boost glider
• Braun, Wernher von
  • Nasa transfer
• Bredt, Irene
• Britain
  • Gloster E28/39
• British Interplanetary Society
  • Space station designs
• Busemann, Adolf
  • arrival in America
• Business planes
  • sales
  • turbofan noise reduction

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C

• California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
• Canada
  • Space shuttle remote manipulator
• Cape Canaveral See also Kennedy Space Center
• Carpenter, Scott
• Centaur upper stage
• Chaffee, Roger B.
  • Apollo fire
• Clarke, Arthur C.
• Colliers magazine, space exploration issue
• Collins, Michael
  • Apollo 11
• Communications Satellite Corp. (Comsat)
  • legislation and founding
• Communications satellites
  • commercial development
  • Comsat and Intelsat
  • Comsat legislation
  • Intelsat
  • Molniya (Soviet Union)
• Communications Technology Satellite 1 (CTS 1)
• Computer Software Management and Information Center (COSMIC)
• Concorde Supersonic Transport
  • entered service
• Conrad, Charles P. Jr.
  • Skylab 1
• Convair aircraft
  • Conviar 990 (Galileo 1 and 2)
  • XF-102
• Cook, Rear Admiral Arthur
• Cooper, L. Gordon
• Courier program
• Cowlings
• Crippen, Robert
• Curtiss Hawk AT5A biplane

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D

• Dart aircraft model
• Debus, Kurt H.
• de la Cierva, Juan
• Delta wings
  • subsonic sweep & testing
• Doolittle, James H.
• Douglas aircraft
  • DC-3
  • DC-4
• Drag reduction
  • transonic
  • XF2A Brewster Buffalo
• Draper, C. Stark
• Dryden, Hugh L.
  • Nasa Deputy Administrator
  • Supersonic transport
• DynaSoar (X-20)
  • lifting body aircraft

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E

• Early aircraft
  • Flight tests
• Earth resources program
  • See also Remote sensing satellites, Landsat satellites
  • agriculture
  • aircraft science platforms
  • Skylab
• Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS 1)
  • See also Landsat satellites, Remote sensing satellites
• Echo satellite
  • Echo 1
• Edwards Flight Research Center (formerly Muroc Army Air Field)
  • Blackbird program
  • Dryden FRC merges with Ames
  • M2F1 aircraft
• Eggars, Alfred J.
• ELDO (European space organization)
• Energy research
• Engine Component Improvement Program
• Engines
  • cowlings
  • liquid-cooled
  • propfan
  • wing placement
  • X-15
• ESRO (European space organization)
• European aviation
  • pre-WW1
• European Space Agency (ESA)
  • Spacelab
• Explorer-Jupiter
  • launch
• Explorer satellites
  • Explorer 18
• Extravehicular activity (EVA)
  • Edward White
  • Edwin E."Buzz" Aldrin
  • Eugene Cernan
  • Michael Collins
  • Richard F. Gordon, Jr.

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F

• F1 rocket engine
  • Apollo program
• F-15 aircraft
• F-86 Sabre aircraft
• F-111 aircraft
• First flight
  • Wright brothers
• Fletcher, James C.
  • 2nd term as Nasa chief
• Flight characteristics
  • aircraft design specifications
• Flight control
  • operations procedures
  • X-29
  • XP-59 stabilizer
• Flight research
• Flight Research Center (FRC)
  • See also Edwards Flight Research Center
• Flight test laboratory (Langely Field)
• Flight tests
  • Early aircraft
• Flying boats
• Fokker trimoter
• Freedom 7 spacecraft
• Friendship 7 spacecraft
• Fuel cells
• Full pressure flight suit
• Fuselages

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G

• Gagarin, Yuri
• Galileo 1 and 2
  • Earth resources program
• Galileo spacecraft
• Garn, Sen. E.J. "Jake"
• Gas turbine propulsion, See also Jet propulsion
• Gemini program
  • budget
  • experiments
  • lessons for Apollo
  • management and operations
  • orbital manueuvers
• Gemini spacecraft
  • Gemini 1 checkout
  • Gemini 2
  • Gemini 4-7
  • Gemini 4 EVA
  • Gemini 9-12
  • Gemini 9 EVA
  • Gemini 10-11 EVA
  • Gemini 12 EVA
  • Gemini 76
  • reentry and inertial guidance system
• Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)
  • GOES-5 and 6
  • GOES-7
• German engineers arrival in U.S.
  • "Operation Paperclip"
• Germany
  • Peenumuende army base
  • swept wing aircraft
• Gilruth, Robert R.
• Glenn, John H. Jr.
• Glennan, T. Keith
• Global Atmospheric Research Program
• Gloster E28/39
  • British turbojet
• Gloster Meteor
• Gluhareff, Michael
  • swept wings
• Goddard, Robert Hutchings
  • Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Guggenheim Fund
  • Liquid Propellant Rocket Development (book)
  • A Method of Attaining Extreme Altitudes (book)
• Grissom, Virgil I.
  • Apollo fire
• Grooved surfaces (highways, runways, ect.)
• Group for the Study of Reaction Motion (GIRD)
  • Soviet Union group of the 1930's See also Soviet Union rocketry
• Grumman Gulfstream
• Grumman X-29
  • Aeronautical research
  • forward swept wings
• Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (GALCIT)
• Guggenheim Fund, Daniel
  • Robert Goddard

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H

• Halley's Comet
• Havilland C8A Buffalo
• Heat Capacity Mapping Mission satellite
• Helicopters
  • Ames research
• Helios 2 spacecraft
• High Altitude Continuous Tracking Radar Range (High Range)
• High Energy Astronomy Observatories (HEAO)
• Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT)
  • design and structure
• High speed research (1930's)
• HL-10 aircraft
• Hoften, James van
• Holmes, D. Brainerd
• Houbolt, John C.
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Hughes Aircraft Company
• Hunsaker, Dr. Jerome C.
• Hydrogen
  • liquid rocket fuel
• Hypersonic aircraft
• Hypersonic flight

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I

• Ice formation
  • wind tunnel
• Infrared Astronomical Satellite
• International Geophysical Year (IGY)
• International Grooving and Grinding Association
• International Sun-Earth Explorer satellites
• International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (Intelsat)
  • satellite network
• International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)

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J

• J2 rocket engine
  • Saturn V
  • Saturn V 2nd stage
• Jacops, Eastman
  • Jeep test bed
• Jet-assisted takeoff (JATO)
• Jet engines
• Jet fighters
  • Gloster jet
  • Me-262
• Jet propulsion
  • Jeep test bed
• Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)
  • Army transfer to Nasa
• Johnson, Clarence "Kelly"
• Johnson, Pres. Lyndon B.
• Johnson, Vice-Pres. Lyndon B.
• Jones, Robert T.
  • Dart model
• Junkers JU-287 aircraft
  • forward swept wings
• Jupiter
  • Galileo spacecraft
  • Pioneer 10
  • Pioneer 11
  • Voyager 1 and 2

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K

• Karman, Theodore von
• Kennedy, Pres. John F.
  • Dallas speech
  • Glenn orbital flight
  • Inaugural address
  • Moon landing speech
• Kennedy Space Center (formerly Cape Canaveral)
• Kerwin, Joseph P.
• Khrushchev, Nikita
• Kotcher, Ezra
• Kuiper Airborne Observatory

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L

• Landing systems
  • Microwave system
• Landsat satellites (formerly Earth Resources Technology Satellite)
  • See also Remote sensing satellites
  • Landsat 2
  • Landsat 3
  • Landsat 4 and 5
• Langley, Samuel Pierpoint
• Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory
  • Engineers and lunchroom tables
  • formal dedication
  • management
  • Wind tunnels
• Launch vehicles
  • checkout procedure
  • expendable rocket launches
  • expendable rockets as shuttle backup
  • post-Challenger misfortunes
  • reliability
  • weather conditions
• Learjet
• Legislation
  • NACA
  • National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
• Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
• Liberty Bell 7
• Lifting body
  • M2 aircraft design
  • M2F1 aircraft
• Lindbergh, Charles
  • military aviation
• Liquid-cooled engines
• Liquid rocket fuel
  • hydrogen
• Lockheed aircraft
  • C-141 Starlifter
  • P-38 Lightning
  • YF-12A
• Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF)
• Low, George M
• Lunar geology
• Lunar landing
  • Kennedy speech
  • lunar module testing
  • sites verified
  • studies and questions
• Lunar module
  • Apollo 13 rescue
• Lunar orbiter
  • photography and mapping
• Lunar-orbit rendezvous
• Lunar origins
  • research data
• Lunar photography
  • Lunar orbiter
  • Ranger spacecraft
• Lunar Receiving Laboratory
• Lunar rover
  • Apollo 15
• Lunar surface

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M

• M2F1 aircraft
• Magellan spacecraft
• Magsat
• Manned Spacecraft Center (formerly Space Task Group)
• Manned space flight
  • See also Apollo program, Gemini program, Space shuttle program
  • Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
  • docking and rescue systems
  • Gagarin & Shephard
  • lunar landing proposal
  • operations on Lunar flight
  • orbital flight publicity
  • physiological effects
  • studies for post-Apollo era
  • U.S., U.S.S.R. cooperation
  • Woods Hole conference
• Mariner spacecraft
  • Mariner 2
  • Mariner 4 and 5
  • Mariner 6 and 7
  • Mariner 9
  • Mariner 10
• Maritime Administration
• Mark, Hans
• Mars spacecraft
  • Mariner 4
  • Mariner 6 and 7
  • Mariner 9
• Martin X-24A aircraft
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Apollo navigation system
• Max Planck Institut fur Physik und Astrophysik
• Me-163 aircraft
• Me-262 aircraft
• Mead, George
• Medical experiments
  • Skylab
• Medical products
• Merbold, Ulf
• Mercury (planet)
  • Mariner 10
• Mercury project
• Mercury spacecraft
  • Freedom 7 (Shepard)
  • Friendship 7 (Glenn)
  • Gordon Cooper
  • Liberty Bell 7 (Grissom)
• Merritt Island
• Microwave Landing System
• Military aircraft
  • B-29
• Military aircraft research
  • American
  • Drag reduction
  • Italy & Germany
  • remotely piloted vehicles (RPV)
• Military aviation
  • Navy
• Missiles
  • as launch vehicle
• Mission Adaptive Wing
• Moffett Field, See also Ames Aeronautical Laboratory
• Mueller, George E.
  • Saturn 1B testing
• Munk, Max
• Muroc Flight Test UnitSee Edwards Flight Research Center

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N

• National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
  • aircraft industries
  • hand-over to Nasa
  • legislation
  • managemet
  • selective service (WWII)
  • space program proposal
  • women
• National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • budget 1961-1964
  • budget 1980, 1989
  • budget cuts
  • launch provider
  • launch vehicles
  • logistics system
  • Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility
  • organization & 10 year plan
  • space priorities study (Ride report)
  • Space shuttle budget
  • technology utilization program
  • university fellowships
• National AeroSpace Plane (NASP)
• National Transonic Facility
• Navel aviation
• Navigational satellites
• Nelsen, George
• Nelson, Repr. Bill
• Nerva upper stage
• Nimbus satellites
  • Nimbus 7
• Nixon, Pres. Richard M.
• Nixon-Brezhnev summit
• North American aircraft
  • P-51
  • X-15 contract
• Nova rocket
• Nuclear propulsion
  • Nerva upper stage
  • NRXA6 upper stage
  • SNAP progran (RTG)
• Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility (Ames)

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O

• Oberth, Hermann
• Operation Paperclip
• Orbital maneuvers
  • Gemini 8 docking and rendezvous
• Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2)
• Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• Orbiting Solar Observatories (OSO)
  • OSO 8

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P

• Paine, Thomas O.
• Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
• Peenumuende
  • Werhner von Braun
• Pioneer spacecraft
  • Pioneer 5
  • Pioneer 10
  • Pioneer 11
• Piper Cub J-3 aircraft
• Piper Twin Comanche aircraft
• Planetary exploration
  • See also specific planets (Mars, ect.)
• Post World War II
  • politics & technology
• Prandtl, Ludwig
  • wind tunnel
• Project Porcupine (atmospheric study)
• Propeller research
  • wind tunnels
• Propfan engines
• Propulsion Assist Module (PAM)

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R

• Radio-controlled aircraft
  • HiMAT and Hyper III
• Radioisotope thermoelectric generators
  • See SNAP program
• Ranger spacecraft
• Reaction Motors, Inc
• Reagan, Pres. Ronald
  • space commercialization
  • Space Station Freedom
• Reed, Robert
• Relay satellite
• Remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs)
  • flight testing
• Remote sensing satellites
  • See also Landsat satellites
  • Earth Resources Technology Satellite
  • Landsat 3
  • Tiros satellites
• Republic P-47
• Research aircraft
  • HiMAT
  • quiet short haul aircraft
  • science platforms
  • Tilt rotor aircraft
  • X-29
• Ride, Sally
  • Nasa priorities study
• Robert H. Goddard Space Flight Center
• Robert J. Collier Trophy, 1929
• Rocket engines
• Rocket fuel
• Rocketry
  • Amateur associations
  • early
  • military
  • Post World War II
  • Soviet Union
  • Soviet Union cooperation
  • Werhner von Braun
• Rockwell XB-70 Valkyrie aircraft
  • flight tests
• Rogers, William P.
• Rogers Commission (Challenger investigation)
• Russian space program
  • See Soviet Union rocketry

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S

• Sanger, Eugen
• Sarsat-Cospas network
• Satellites
  • orbital observatories
  • Space science
• Saturn
  • Voyager 1 and 2
  • Voyager flyby
• Saturn 1 rocket
  • Saturn 1B
  • Saturn 1B testing
  • Saturn 1 test flights
• Saturn V rocket
  • Apollo 4 (first launch)
  • manrated on Apollo 6
  • Saturn V assembly
  • Saturn V stages
  • Skylab
• Schirra, Walter
  • Gemini 6 (76 mission)
• Schmitt, Harrison H.
• Schneider, Willian C.
• Science fiction influence
• Scout rocket
• Seamans, Robert C. Jr.
  • Apollo fire review board
• Search and rescue systemSee Sarsat-Cospas network
• Seasat satellites
  • Seasat 1
• Shepard, Alan B. Jr.
• Ship transportation
  • Nasa logistics
• Shock waves
  • supersonic aircraft
• Sikorsky, Igor
• Skylab
  • reentry
  • Skylab 1 repair mission
  • Skylab 2 and 3
• Small planes, See also business planes
• SNAP progran (RTG)
  • Nuclear propulsion
• Solar cells
• Solar Maximum Mission
  • STS-11 repair and redeployment
• Solar research
  • Ulysses spacecraft
• Sound barrier
• Soviet Union rocketry
  • cooperation in manned space flight
• Spacecraft
  • rendezvous and docking
• Spacelab
• Space program
  • benefits
  • consensus & competition
• Space research
  • Werhner von Braun
• Space science satellites
  • See also Astronomy, Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
• Space shuttle
  • Columbia
  • Discovery and Altantis
  • operations
  • operations and launch
  • proposal
  • redesign and approval
  • research
  • Spacelab
• Space shuttle flights (STS)
  • Challenger STS-11 Solar Max repair
  • Challenger STS-25 explosion
  • Challenger STS-25 Teacher in Space
  • Columbia STS-1
  • Discovery STS-14 errant satellite retrieval
  • Post-Challenger recovery
  • Shuttles grounded
  • STS-5 PAM deployment
  • STS-16 Toys in Space
  • STS-22 Spacelab flight
• Space shuttle orbiter
  • remote manipulator arm
• Space shuttle program
  • Challenger investigation (Rogers Commission)
  • flight training
  • landing sites
  • main engines
  • Nasa budget
  • Shuttle overhaul
  • thermal protection tiling
• Space shuttle training aircraft
• Space stations
  • artificial gravity
  • International partners
  • Reagan approval
  • Skylab
  • space shuttle flights
• Space Task Group
  • becomes Manned Spacecraft Center
• Space Task Group (Nixon Administration)
  • report
• Sputnik satellites
  • Sputnik 1
  • Sputnik 2
• SR-71A Blackbird
  • Nasa flight tests
  • Nasa YF-12A prototypes
• Stack, John
• Supercritical wing
  • Vought F8A Crusader
• Supersonic aircraft
  • combat multi-mission plane
  • fuselages
  • physiological changes in flight
  • wind tunnel tests
• Supersonic Cruise Aircraft Research Program
• Supersonic transport aircraft
  • funding
  • propulsion systems
  • XB-70 Valkyrie
• Surveyor spacecraft
  • Apollo 12
  • lunar lander
• Swept wings
  • Adolf Busemann
  • forward sweep
  • German aircraft
• Syncom satellite
  • Syncom 2

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T

• Technology transfer
  • Spinoff publicity
• Telstar satellites
  • Telstar 1
• Theodorsen, Theodor
• Thompson, Floyd L.
  • Apollo fire review board
• Tilt wing aircraft
  • Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft (XV15)
• Tiros satellites
  • Department of Interior
• Titan II missile
  • Gemini booster
• Transonic Aircraft Technology (TACT)
• Transonic flight research
  • supercritical wing
• Transport aircraft
• Trimotored airliners
• Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
• Turbojet aircraft
  • Gloster E28/39

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U

• Uhuru spacecraft
• Ulysses spacecraft
• United States Air Force
  • expendable launch vehicles
  • WWII aircraft
• Universities
  • fellowships and grants
• Uranus
  • Miranda (moon)
  • Voyager 2

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V

• V-22 Osprey (formerly XV-15 Tilt rotor)
• van Allen, James A.
• Vanguard
• Variable density wind tunnels
  • See also Wind tunnels
  • airfoils
  • laminar flow
• Venus
  • Magellan spacecraft
  • Mariner 2
  • Mariner 5
  • Mariner 10
  • Pioneer spacecraft
• Verein fur Raumschiffart (VfR)
  • World War II
• Verne, Jules
• Vietnam war
• Viking program
  • Mars
• Volta Congress
• Vostok 1
• Vought F8A Crusader
• Voyager program
  • budget cuts
  • Saturn
  • Saturn flyby
  • Voyager 1 and 2, Jupiter
  • Voyager 2 at Uranus
• V/STOL aircraft

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W

• Walcott, Charles D.
• Warner, Edward P.
• Water access
  • Apollo facilities
• Weather satellites
  • forecasting
  • GOES-5 and 6
  • Nimbus
  • Nimbus 7
  • NOAA 6
  • NOAA-7 and 8
  • Tiros 1
  • Tiros-N
  • Tiros series
• Webb, James E.
  • Apollo fire
• Westover, Major General Oscar
• Whitcomb, Richard
• White, Edward H. II
  • Apollo fire
• Whittle, Frank
• Wilson, Pres. Woodrow
• Wind tunnels
  • See also Variable density wind tunnels
  • full size aircraft (Ames)
  • high speed tunnel
  • National Transonic Facility
  • propeller research
  • refrigerated tunnel
• Wind tunnel tests
  • Dart model
  • supersonic aircraft
  • XF2A Brewster Buffalo
• Wings
  • engine placement
  • laminar flow
  • Mission Adaptive
  • supercritical
  • variable geometry
  • wingtip winglet
  • World War II
  • XP-59
• Woods, Robert J.
• Woods Hole conference
• Wright brothers
  • first flight

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X

• X-1 aircraft
  • 1rst supersonic flight
  • flight testing
• X-15 aircraft
  • engine
  • publicity
  • test flights
• X-15 flight test range
• X-29 aircraft
  • See also Grumman X-29
  • flight control
• X-30
  • See National AeroSpace Plane (NASP)
• XB-70 aircraft
  • See also Rockwell XB-70 Valkyrie
  • flight tests
• XC-142A aircraft
• XF2A Brewster Buffalo
  • drag reduction
• XP-59 aircraft
  • Flight control stabilizer
  • Wings
• X series aircraft

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Y

• Yeager, Capt. Charles "Chuck"
• Young, John

Z

• Zahm, Dr. Albert F

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