On October 3, 1967, William J. "Pete" Knight made the history-defining X-15 moment when he set the record for fastest manned aircraft reaching Mach 6.70 or 4,520 miles per hour.
On Oct. 15, 1958, the first X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft rolled out of its factory. A joint project among NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S.
But what’s Hollywood and what’s real? Is flight at Mach 10 even possible? In the movie, Maverick is dubbed “the fastest man alive,” but who was the real