This package contains 3 versions of the X-15A-2 with external propellant tanks and the mighty XLR-99 rocket engine.

X-15A-2 for Flight Simulator Key Features

• Custom X-15 flight model to simulate rocket-powered high-speed and high-altitude flight in FS2004 and FSX:
  • Supersonic flight up to Mach 4.65 in FS2004 and FSX
  • High-altitude flight up to 354,200 feet in FSX (100,000 feet in FS2004)
  • Can be launched either from a high altitude like the real X-15 or take off from an airport runway like other Flight Simulator aircraft
  • Good maneuvrability at supersonic speeds and excellent gliding capabilities
• Highly detailed 3D models with more than 300 parts, 60 animations, reflective textures and unique markings, based on archive material
• Fully functional instrument panels with 240 custom gauges and systems to simulate almost every step and procedure required in a typical X-15 mission
• Spectacular visual effects including rocket engine flames, APU exhaust and propellant jettison effects
• Uses a custom fuel management system with three different types of propellants (water-alcohol or ammonia, liquid oxygen and hydrogen peroxide) and pressurized helium or nitrogen, like in the real-world X-15A-2 rocket plane
• Includes a comprehensive 100-page user manual inspired from the original X-15 utility flight manuals, in a printable PDF format (English and French language versions are included with the software)

What makes the X-15 for Flight Simulator series exciting and unique are the advanced fully functional instrument panels with custom gauges and systems to simulate almost every step and procedure required in a typical X-15 or X-15A-2 mission:

• Aircraft servicing (all three propellants and gases);
• APUs/generators/hydraulic pump operation;
• Propellant tank pressurization;
• Engine precool and prime;
• Turbopump operation;
• Rocket ignition sequence;
• Monitoring of propellant pressure gauges;
• Propellant jettison.

Almost every X-15 internal system has been integrated into the X-15 for Flight Simulator panels:

• Engine propellant and control system;
• Engine ignition system;
• APUs and electrical power distribution systems;
• Hydraulic systems;
• Temperature control systems.

The X-15A-2 for Flight Simulator comes with three main instrument panels and eight secondary panels, either in their original black version or the later light blue-gray version. Included with each X-15A-2 add-on aircraft is:

• A main panel;
• A service panel;
• A "vent, pressurize, jettison" lever panel;
• A throttle and speed brake lever panel;
• A left side panel;
• A right side panel;
• A radio panel (ADF panel on some aircraft);
• A center pedestal panel with research instrumentation and stability augmentation system panels;
• An RAS (reaction augmentation system) panel on some aircraft;

In addition, the default Flight Simulator Garmin GPS and magnetic compass panels are available from the main panel.

240 custom gauges have been developed for the X-15-1 for Flight Simulator and each one has been carefully designed based on the original instrument found in the real X-15 aircraft.

Note that one variation of the X-15-1 has a revised light blue-gray instrument panel that replaced the original black panel in the summer of 1963. The new panel contrasted better with the gauges, light indicators and flight instruments.

GENERAL FEATURES

3 versions of the X-15A-2 aircraft (s/n AF56-6671) with the XLR-99 rocket engine and "jettisonable" external propellant tanks:

• "Rollout" version (black) with silver external propellant tanks and the X-15A-2 light blue-gray instrument panel;
• "Dirty" version (black) with red and white external propellant tanks and the X-15A-2 light blue-gray instrument panel;
• "White" version with full ablative coating, a modified lower vertical stabilizer, a dummy ramjet, an animated eyelid on the left canopy window and the X-15A-2 light blue-gray instrument panel.

2 versions of the X-15A-2 aircraft (s/n AF56-6670) with the XLR-99 rocket engine (design-mission configuration):

• "Dirty" version with the NACA/Nortronics ball nose and the original (XLR-99) black panel;
• "Dirty" version with the NACA/Nortronics ball nose, wing-tip pods, tail-cone box and the (XLR-99) light blue-gray panel.

• Custom X-15 flight model to simulate rocket-powered high-speed and high-altitude flight in FS2004 and FSX
• One Reaction Motors XLR-11, 5900-pound four-chambered liquid-fuel turbo-rocket engines
• Supersonic flight up to Mach 4.65 in FS2004 and FSX
• High-altitude flight up to 354,200 feet in FSX (100,000 feet in FS2004)
• Ground takeoff or high-altitude launch
• Good maneuvrability at supersonic speeds
• Excellent gliding capabilities

• Highly detailed models based on archive material, with more than 300 parts and 60 animations
• Reflective textures
• Unique markings and liveries (on each aircraft)
• Dynamic frost texture on fuselage (around the liquid oxygen tank when filled)
• Movable aerodynamic control surfaces:
• Differential horizontal stabilizer
• Vertical stabilizers with movable and fixed sections and a jettisonable ventral rudder
• Flaps
• Extendable upper and lower split-flap speed brakes
• Landing skids and front gear ("steerable")
• Movable canopy
• Cockpit details with astronaut/pilot and animated sticks and levers
• Experimental equipment on some airplanes (wing-tip pods, tail-cone box, etc.)