Nasa Rocket-Powered X-Planes

 October's posting will feature NASA X-Planes. Below are photos of the real planes at the Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

M2-F3 Lifting Body

Chuck Yeager's X-1 the "Glamorous Glenna"

X-24B Lifting Body

The XLR-11 Rocket Engines for the X-24B

The X-15-1

The X-15-2A

The business end of the x-15-2A XLR-99 rocket engine

The louvered cockpit window of the X-15-2A

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The Mach 2 1/72 scale kit of the X-24B

The Revell 1/72 X-15-2A

Edward X-1 kit

The Eagle Talon 1/72 scale M2-F2 vacu-form kit

A Scratch-built 1/72 scale X-20. This one was carved from a chunk of balsa wood!