X-15A-2 Side View of Damage After Mach 6.7 Flight

This 32-second video from October 3, 1967 documents the damage to the side of the X-15A-2 hypersonic aircraft after William J. “Pete“ Knight piloted the vehicle on a record breaking Mach 6.7 flight. 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