The Radioacive Alternative to the X-15 - Faster, Higher, Cheaper. The Douglas D-684
- Episode aired Dec 28, 2018
- 9m
The competition for the first space plane was won by a missile designer and new comer to the X-plane program, North American, with its X-15 design. It beat out the Navy's historical designer... Read allThe competition for the first space plane was won by a missile designer and new comer to the X-plane program, North American, with its X-15 design. It beat out the Navy's historical designer Douglas which proposed a design using a light weight magnesium alloy containing radioacti... Read allThe competition for the first space plane was won by a missile designer and new comer to the X-plane program, North American, with its X-15 design. It beat out the Navy's historical designer Douglas which proposed a design using a light weight magnesium alloy containing radioactive thorium that would stay cooler during the aircraft's brief atmospheric reentry. Ironica... Read all