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Unfazed by an unprecedented fuel-pressure failure at launch, top Test Pilot Joe Walker hot-rocketed his stub-winged X-15 to a record-setting 3,645 m.p.h. When he finally set down at Rogers Dry Lake, Calif., the indomitable father of four (the latest born fortnight ago) opined that one of the plane's bugs, originally diagnosed as heat condensation, was actually only the "scorching of paint inside the canopy." Skin temperature of the X-15 at the height of Walker's "by guess and by gosh" flight: a toasty...
...black, 50-ft. long, stub-winged plane left Edwards Air Force Base tucked under the right wing of a B-52. Somewhere over the just-awakening revelry of Las Vegas, at 45,000 ft., Walker and -55 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton began their countdown prior to dropping the X-15 for its flight. Midway in the countdown, Walker interrupted by radio: "We've lost our liquid-nitrogen cooler. My mixing chamber quit." Without the cooler both his special flight suit and his cockpit would turn into bake ovens in the searing, supersonic flight to come. As the mother plane circled...
Outside Hanoi, the peasants have stub bornly resisted the Communists. After rural unrest in 1956, collective farms were all but abandoned, and the peasants were enlisted in "manpower exchange brigades," which means only that they occasionally give one another a hand, as they always have. Since the population is booming by 3.5% a year, North Viet Nam is having difficulty just feeding its people...
...cold, rarefied upper atmosphere nine miles above California's Mojave Desert, the B-52 mother ship let go of the stub-winged X-15 research plane and swung away. In his cramped cockpit, greying Test Pilot Joseph Walker, 38, flicked a series of switches, and the black needle-nosed X-15's eight rocket chambers roared into fiery life. On a high-altitude research mission for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Walker was not supposed to be trying for a speed record. But he pushed his plane as fast as skill could push...
...Memphis, after being ordered by his teacher to swallow what he was chewing, Rangel Burks, 7, obliged, was taken to the hospital with a pencil stub in his stomach...