Craig Kodera, LIGHT THE CANDLES X-15, giclee canvas Neil Armstrong ARTIST PROOF for Sale

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Craig Kodera, LIGHT THE CANDLES X-15, giclee canvas Neil Armstrong ARTIST PROOF:
$495.00

LIGHT THE CANDLES! A/P
(limited edition giclee canvas)by: Craig Kodera
(1956 - 2021)

Image size: 30\"w x 15\"h (stretched)
Published: 2019
Issue Price: $395.
Edition Size:10
This is canvas: Artist ProofA/P#/10
This limited edition giclee canvas is hand signed and numbered by the artist and GUARANTEED to arrive in MINT condition.
Although he is no longer with us, Craig Kodera is one of the most popular aviation artists in the country.
We are offering this giclee canvas in the original plastic wrap, never framed or hung, with certificate of authenticity.
We will gladly ship to you insured UPS for$39.in the contiguous US and Canada via USPS.
By offerding, foreign residents also acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to pay all taxes and related charges.
International orders will ship carefully tubed.

Craig Kodera(1956 - 2021)

LIGHT THE CANDLES! A/P

ScottCrossfield and the X-15

Beginningat the height of World War II, America joined several other westernnations in preparing for high speed/supersonic flight utilizing thenew propulsion engine, the jet.

Limitationsas to thrust of the new engines negated their use in attempting tobreak the sound barrier and thus, liquid fueled rocket engines weresubstituted. These \"rocket planes\" were couched within thegovernment program known as the X Series of aircraft. The X-1 camefirst, piloted by the famous Chuck Yeager who officially broke thesound barrier in 1947.

Aseach successive airplane was developed and flown, the reach forhigher speeds was well underway. By the late 1950s, the X-15 made itsdebut and promised the highest speed yet for manned aircraft: Machsix, or six times the speed of sound.

Aftersuccessful glide drops, the day for the first rocket powered flightapproached and the chief test pilot for North American Aviation,builders of the X-15, Scott Crossfield took to skies, carried aloftunder the wing of the B-52 mother ship on 17 September, 1959. Flyingover the prescribed 480-mile test route from Nevada to the deserts ofSouthern California, Crossfield pushed the button and ignited theXLR-11 rocket engines, and history was made.

TheX-15 went forward with the new NASA and flew 199 test/researchmissions in its decade-long career. Not only flying faster, it alsoflew higher, actually reaching the edge of space. Pilots who attainedthis altitude were awarded astronaut wings. Of the several pilots whoflew the aircraft, two future astronauts made their own historyflying the craft. One was Joe Engle, someday-Shuttle commander, andthe other, a young, sharp Navy pilot named Neil Armstrong. Flying thevaried research profiles brought not only invaluable experience tothese two pilot-astronauts but also put them on the map for selectioninto the space program. Armstrong\'s great repute rewarded him the jobof landing the Lunar Module on Tranquility Plain.

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