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Lent by Langley Research Center
An early steel wind tunnel model of the proposed high-speed research
vehicle that was later to be named the X-15. It was tested in the 1953
time frame within the NACA Langley wind tunnels, at subsonic,
supersonic, and hypersonic speeds. The aim of these tests was to
determine the proposed vehicles configuration and ascertain how it would
fly over its proposed speed range. Different wing and tail
configurations were tested during this period. This model has diamond
shaped airfoils on the X configuration tail. The wedge tail concept for
high-speed flight was an outcome of this testing.
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