Roy Cross. North American X-15. Hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft. Based on a concept by Walter Dornberger for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 3 built 1959. Retired 1968. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #WalterDornberger #BrookeBond

In #JUNE 1943
Reichsführer SS #HeinrichHimmler visits the rocket development center at #Peenemünde, to the left, Gen. #WalterDornberger, head of the German Rocket program since 1930, and behind, rocket scientist, master mind and technical director #WernhervonBraun.