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    X-15 Flight 3-65-97, also known as X-15 Flight 191 (being the 191st free flight of the X-15), was a sub-orbital spaceflight of the North American X-15...
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    records on free flight 2-53-97 (or flight 188). Shortly thereafter, the X-15-3 was destroyed on its final free flight, 3-65-97 (or flight 191), killing...
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  • Flight 191 (1967), or X-15 Flight 3-65-97, experimental test plane, broke apart in flight, killing its test pilot Prinair Flight 191 (1972), crashed at...
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  • situation actually occurred several years later on X-15 Flight 3-65-97, November 15, 1967, in the rebuilt X-15-3, when pilot Mike Adams experienced a hypersonic...
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    Michael J. Adams (category X-15 program)
    On November 15, 1967, Adams flew X-15 Flight 191 (also known as X-15 Flight 3-65-97) aboard the X-15-3, one of three planes in the X-15 fleet. Flying...
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    The North American X-15's Flight 188 on October 3, 1967, was a record-setting flight. William J. Knight took the X-15A-2 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft...
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    56-6671, 31 free flights as X-15-2, 22 free flights as X-15A-2; 53 in total X-15-3 – 56-6672, 65 free flights, including the Flight 191 disaster NB-52A...
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    total of two astronauts in suborbital flights and four into orbit. The US also made two North American X-15 flights (90 and 91, piloted by Joseph A. Walker)...
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    October 2006). "Gastall's secret, fatal flight". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 13 May 2012. "Cabinet minister, 3 others die in Paraguay plane crash". Associated...
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    J. Adams, would be posthumously awarded his Astronaut Wings for X-15 Flight 3-65-97. Besides Adams, two other finalists later died in aircraft accidents:...
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