{"id":139878,"date":"2022-05-27T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T01:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/the-x-15-hit-mach-6-7-faster-than-the-sr-71-blackbird"},"modified":"2022-05-27T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T01:23:34","slug":"the-x-15-hit-mach-6-7-faster-than-the-sr-71-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/the-x-15-hit-mach-6-7-faster-than-the-sr-71-blackbird","title":{"rendered":"The X-15 Hit Mach 6.7 (Faster Than The SR-71 Blackbird)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-x-15-hit-mach-6-7-faster-than-the-sr-71-blackbird2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the SR-71 Blackbird remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/meet-the-sr-71-blackbird-the-fastest-air-breathing-aircraft-ever\/\">the world\u2019s fastest air-breathing aircraft<\/a>, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/mach-6-7-the-x-15-changed-aviation-history-forever\/\">richly deserved place<\/a> in the aviation history record books: on October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force test pilot William \u201cPete\u201d Knight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/06\/x-15-the-mach-6-7-super-plane-that-made-air-force-history\/\">became the fastest flying pilot ever<\/a> when he achieved a speed of Mach 6.7, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/this-plane-hit-mach-6-7-meet-the-north-american-x-15\/\">record<\/a> that has stood for nearly 55 years.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Baby Steps Before that \u201cOne Small Step for Man\u2026\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As if that one particular superlative weren\u2019t impressive enough, the X-15 helped make history in other ways: before Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, <a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:7o-B7i_735YJ: https:\/\/stmuscholars.org\/when-angels-fall-from-heaven-chuck-yeager-shoots-for-the-stars\/+&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us\">he was taught to fly the X-15 to the edge of space by then-Colonel Chuck Yeager<\/a>, who, of course, made history in his own right as the first man to break the sound barrier whilst flying the first of the \u201cX\u201d planes, t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/07\/the-bell-x-1-jet-looks-like-a-bullet-its-not-a-coincidence\/\">he Bell X-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the SR-71 Blackbird remains the world\u2019s fastest air-breathing aircraft, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own richly deserved place in the aviation history record books: on October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force test pilot William \u201cPete\u201d Knight became the fastest flying pilot ever when he achieved a speed of Mach 6.7, a record that has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}