In the late 1950s and 1960s, the X-15 pushed the limits of speed and altitude like no aircraft before it. Born under NACA and ...

Capt. George C. Watkins, a record-setting Navy test pilot in the 1950s who later served as a White House social aide to three presidents, died of a heart attack Sept. 18 at a hospital in Lompoc, where ...

The farm boy from Wilson County died taking his Bell X-2 Starbuster to Mach 3, but he knew we have to protect our children’s future. Courtesy of Sharman Apt Russell In the 1950s, my father was a test ...