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AMERICAN X-VEHICLES An Inventory—X-1 to X-50 Centennial of Flight Edition by Dennis R. Jenkins, Tony Landis, and Jay Miller Monographs in Aerospace History No. 31 SP-2003-4531 June 2003 AMERICAN X-VEHICLES An Inventory—X-1 to X-50 Centennial of Flight Edition by Dennis R. Jenkins, Tony Landis, and Jay Miller Monographs in Aerospace History No. 31 SP-2003-4531 June 2003 Suggested Further Reading At the Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program, by Milton O. Thompson, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X-15, by Dennis R. Jenkins and Tony R. Landis, Specialty Press, 2003. The X-Planes: X-1 to X-45, by Jay Miller, Midland Counties Publishing, 2001. Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot, by Scott Crossfield, The World Publishing Company, 1960 reprinted by Arno Press in 1971 and again by Ayer Company Publishers in 1999 . Hypersonics Before the Shuttle: A Concise History of the X-15, by Dennis R. Jenkins, SP-2000-4518, NASA, 2000. Toward Mach 2: The Douglas D-558 Program, edited by J. D. Hunley, SP-4222, NASA, 1999. Flying Without Wings: NASA Lifting Bodies and the Birth of the Space Shuttle, by Milton O. Thompson and Curtis Peebles, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. Front Cover Photo A group picture of Douglas airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954 at what is now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The photo includes the X-3 in front, Air Force serial number 49-2892 then clockwise D-558-I, XF4D-1 a Navy jet fighter prototype not flown by the NACA , and the first D-558-II NACA tail number 143, Navy bureau number 37973 , which was flown only once by the NACA. NASA photo E-1239 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jenkins, Dennis R. American X-vehicles: an inventory, X-1 to X-50/by Dennis R. Jenkins, Tony Landis, and Jay Miller. p.cm.— Monographs in aerospace history; no. NASA history series NASA SP-2003-4531 Includes biblio