X-15A-2 - Damage After Record Setting Mach 6.7 Flight

This 48-second video taken on October 3, 1967 documents the damage to the X-15A-2 hypersonic aircraft after its record breaking Mach 6.7 flight with William J. “Pete“ Knight as the pilot. In the joint X-15 hypersonic research program that NASA conducted with the Air Force, the Navy, and North American Aviation, Inc., the aircraft flew over a period of nearly 10 years and set the world’s unofficial speed and altitude records of 4,520 mph (Mach 6.7) and 354,200 feet in a program to investigate all aspects of