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Originally Posted by SAustin16
Dave,
Excellent job on the X-15 family. You are providing a very nice history of this very important program.
You mentioned Mike Adams' last flight. There is a nice memorial to Mike at the main crash site, built by a group of aviation enthusiasts including a family friend. The site is about 2 miles north of the town of Red Mountain along the west side of the Trona Road. I often traveled the Trona Road, but never got to visit the actual memorial because someone was always there...and I never approach strangers in the desert. The technical papers I have read noted that poor Mike was still doing Mach 4 completely out of control over the Trona Pinnacles to the northeast. Everything went horribly wrong on his flight.
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There have actually been some recent (2014-ish) analyses of the incident:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/pape...4e9835307bf75a