X-2 Sightings
 
Last Updated - March 2024

If you know of any other current magazine articles, showings, etc. of the X-2, please email me, and I'll put it up on the site.

National Air & Space Museum - Nation of Speed Gallery

Located at the National Air & Space Museum on the mall in Washington DC, the Nation of Speed exhibit includes an X-2 wind tunnel model. Col. Stapp's Sonic Wind No 1 is also on display.

NASM Flickr photo album

Past Sightings Archive

In June 2022, I lost a chunk of the website due to bad actors. But, I did save the content as PDF files. The below is a quick index to access the content. Please note that links within the PDFs may be dead. Sightings Page 1 and Sightings Page 2 predate the below.

June 2022 - May 2020

  • Toward The Unknown – Outdoor Showing in July 2022
  • Iven Kincheloe, AOPA Membe
  • New AZ Model 1:72 Scale Bell X-2 Ki
  • Spending Your Money: A Few Recommendation
  • Fonderie Miniatures 1/48 X-
  • Toward the Unknown Storyboard Illustration
  • High Flight—Stories of an Air Force Fighter Pilo
  • It’s Hot Out – Watch TTU in H
  • X-2 Show & Tel
  • Mike Machat X-2 Video

April 2020 - February 2019

  • A Loss for the X-2 Family: Richard Passman
  • January 25 2020 X-2 Crash Site Visit
  • Bell Aircraft Wheatfield Photos
  • Matthews Aviation Art: Martin XB-51
  • X-2 Photo Album Update Part 2 – 6674 Crash Photos
  • Linc Didn’t Own a Ferrari
  • X-2 Photo Album Update – 6674 Crash Photos
  • Aviation History Mag: Bell X-2: First to Mach 3
  • X-2 & TF-86 Movie
  • Flight Test Book Club: X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age

December 2018 - February 2018

  • Year End Wrap Up
  • Hobbytime Martin XB-51 Panther – Part 2
  • Hobbytime Martin XB-51 Panther
  • Ralph Meeker, Bud Evans & the X-2
  • Paul Mantz & Toward The Unknown
  • Flight Test Book Club: A Tenth of A Second to Live
  • Toward The Unknown Showing July 26 at EAA Airventure 2018
  • June Allyson & the 312th Fighter Bomber Wing
  • Flight Test Book Club: The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings Into Space
  • February 21, 1956 – I Have a Date with Outer Space

January 2018 - July 2017

  • X Planes 6 – Bell X-2 by Peter E. Davies
  • Motion Picture Herald – September 22, 1956
  • Old Life Magazine Issues on Google
  • On The Threshold of Space Artwork
  • As Seen in Life Magazine
  • Pete Everest – Part 2
  • Pete Everest & the D-558 II
  • Pete Everest & the X-1D
  • Bell X-2 Book Coming This November
  • Toward The Unknown Playing at EAA Museum in September

June 2017 - October 2016

  • El Paso XB-51 Crash
  • The Hunters – Trailer
  • How to Buy Toward The Unknown in HD
  • X-2 From Italy
  • Replica Lincoln Bond MA-1 Jacket
  • Life’s Tough, Get a Helmet
  • Edwards AFB Housing in Quantum Leap
  • Edwards AFB 2016: Then and Now
  • Edwards Celebrates 60 Years of Toward The Unknown
  • YT-38 – Then & Now

October 2016 - September 2016

  • October 20, 1956: Toward The Unknown Premiers at Edwards AFB
  • Programming Alert: Toward The Unknown Nov 8
  • New Site Page: Kincheloe AFB Dedication
  • Real Exciting: X-2
  • Kincheloe Memorial – Cassopolis, Michigan
  • Site Visit – September 27, 2016
  • Remembering Capt. Apt
  • Capt. Mel Apt & X-2 Remembered in New Museum Display
  • Sixty Years of the Bell X-2
  • Toward The Unknown Playing @ Edwards October 20

September 2016 - March 2016

  • Strategic Air Command Reminder!
  • Visiting the Stratobowl
  • Iven Kincheloe Mackay Trophy – Airman Magazine
  • Strategic Air Command Coming to BluRay and DVD
  • Painting Aviation’s Legends: The Art of Mike Machat
  • X-2 “Flight To The Future” Movie
  • On The Threshold of Space Coming to DVD
  • You Bet Your Life, Col. Stapp
  • A Gathering of Eagles now on DVD
  • 60 Years of Going Toward The Unknown

March 2016 - October 2014

  • X-2 Photo Album Status
  • X-2 Factory Model
  • Toward The Unknown Screen Captures
  • The XB-47 Needs Help
  • Toward The Unknown at Edwards Base Theater – October 21, 1956
  • X-2 Model Retires to Edwards
  • Iven Kincheloe in October Air Classics Magazine
  • Any F-105 or B-66 Experts in the Audience?
  • December 1954 at Edwards
  • X-2 at Black Rock

August 2014 - May 2014

  • Upper Michigan Part 3 – Delta County Airport F-84
  • Upper Michigan Part 2 – A Visit to the the 753d Radar Squadron
  • Memorial to a Forgotten Astronaut - Mike Adams
  • A Visit to Kincheloe/Kinross AFB
  • Giant X-2 in Rockets Magazine
  • Dragonfly Squadron DVD/Blu-Ray
  • Celebrate James Garner’s Life
  • Wanted: “24 Hour Alert” on DVD
  • Glencoe/Strombecker X-1B
  • Michael Adams Memorial Re-Dedication – May 18

April 2014 - September 2013

  • Craig Kodera X-2 Artwork
  • Flight Test Book Club
    Technical Review of the X-2
  • Fitz Fulton Reading
  • William Holden: Mach Buster
  • The Right Stuff on Blu-Ray
  • Starbuster Returns
  • Edwards AFB 1956 Open House
  • Flight of the X-2
  • X-2 Rocket Model Update

August 2013 - January 2013

  • Update on Flying X-2 Rocket Model
  • Paper or Plastic (X-2 Model)?
  • X-13 vs. Pontiac
  • Update: Searching for Life Magazine X-2 Photos
  • Searching for Life Magazine X-2 Photos
  • X-2 Flying Again!
  • Greetings from Patrick AFB!
  • Bell Aircraft Hangar at Edwards – 55+ Years Later
  • Lincoln’s Bond
  • Additional Quantum Leap X-2 Photos

January 2013 - October 2011

  • William Holden’s TF-86 Ride
  • Movie Airplanes in Air & Space Magazine
  • Toward the Unknown of Holloman
  • Mel Apt Memorial a Reality
  • X-2 Photos Added to Album
  • Quantum Leap X-2 on Hulu
  • New Iven Kincheloe Photo Added
  • Toward The Unknown on Turner Classic Movies
  • X-2 Memorial, 55 Years Later
  • Capt. Apt 55th Anniversary Article

October 2011 - January 2011

  • New X-2 Artwork
  • X-2 Crash Site Memorial in the Works
  • Air Research & Developent Command Issue
  • Edwards AFB in My Backyard
  • XLR-25 Rocket Engine Images Added to Album
  • Toward The Unknown On DVD!
  • Quantum Leap X-2 Restoration Update
  • Pete Everest Featured in Friends of the RAF Newsletter
  • Collings Foundation Picks Up F-100
  • TTU Photo Album Update

January 2011 - June 2010

  • “The Hunters” Tidbits
  • Wanted: Scale X-2 Drawings
  • My New Favorite Blog
  • Major General J. Stanley Holtoner Obituary
  • Kincheloe to National Aviation Hall of Fame
  • X-2 Diorama
  • New Book: De snelste mens ter wereld
  • Diesel Fun
  • X-2 Kit Alert
  • Iven Kincheloe Pics – AF Museum

April 2010 - November 2009

  • Widow of ‘first spaceman’ Kincheloe Jr. recalls husband
  • Air Trails Pictorial 1950
  • Capt. Thomas Stratton
  • Kincheloe Vs. White
  • Robert A. Rohrer Obituary
  • Field Trip top X-2 Crash Site
  • And Not Just the X-2
  • New Life Magazine X-2 Pics
  • New X-2 Mockup Photos
  • Technical Review of the X-2: Now Available

October 2009 - August 2009

  • Life Magazine Articles Online
  • Skip Ziegler Honored
  • 95,000 Feet
  • Welcome to the New Sightings Format!

Sightings Page 1 (2009 and earlier)

Sightings Page 2 2009 and earlier)



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