X-15: The Edge of Space
by Mark Gray
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Actor: Everyone who worked on the X-15 ProjectDirector: Mark Gray
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 600 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Spacecraft Films
DVD Reviews of X-15: The Edge of Space
DVD Review: X-15: The Edge of Space - A five star DVD for space weenies
Summary: 5 Stars
X-15: The Edge of Space was a five star DVD as far as this reviewer is concerned. This highly successful X-plane was flight tested between 1958 and 1968 and excerpts from all of this work are included. This film contains a great deal of detailed coverage of a large number of X-15 flights which have probably not been available to the public until it was released. It contains three DVD's and will likely start to repeat itself unless you are a genuine fan of space and aviation. However, if you consider yourself a space "historian" with a growing space collection, this DVD box set is a must see!
Included are several wonderful X-15 formal presentations, North American Aviation, U.S. Air Force and NASA documentaries and speeches. The DVD set also includes many clips of engineering wind tunnel work, wonderful stainless steel fractional scale models of the X-15, photography of shock wave patterns developed in hypersonic flows around the aeroform of these models, interviews given by old X-15 test pilots, technicians and engineers, and probably every scrap of footage that Spacecraft Films could salvage from this wonderful project. Informative narration was also provided by David Mohr, a propulsion engineer working on the Shuttle Program.
Granted, even the original box set was a bit pricey from Spacecraft Films due to the cost of remastering and color correcting the old footage (which includes 16 and 35 mm film, some of which has been restored to "good as new" by SF). Note that this box set includes over ten hours of historic footage.
One sequence I particularly enjoyed shows the efforts to upgrade the X-15 to Mach 8 capability by outfitting its Inconel-X steel skin with a "white" ablative coating, two external tanks, and plans to incorporate a ram jet in place of the lower vertical stabilizer. The advanced X-15 program was cancelled, however, before the plane could achieve this new world record. Records the X-15 did accomplish included a 67 mile (~354,000 foot) altitude record and a Mach 6.7 speed record.
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