File:100. X-15 Simulator.jpg

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Using the F-107 fighter and a spring-mounted pivoting slide projector in a fairly accurate replication of the X-15’s pitch dynamics while evaluating the X-15s side located controller. Pitch angle was projected as a line on the screen, and pitching motions were also recorded by the oscillograph recorder next to the slide projector. The Station’s DC-3 utility airplane, in which Marian occasionally flew as “copilot” with Neil Armstrong, is in the background. NACA photo

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current19:49, 8 August 2016Thumbnail for version as of 19:49, 8 August 20161,702 × 1,210 (1.22 MB)Davidboslaugh (talk | contribs)Using the F-107 fighter and a spring-mounted pivoting slide projector in a fairly accurate replication of the X-15’s pitch dynamics while evaluating the X-15s side located controller. Pitch angle was projected as a line on the screen, and pitching mo...

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