This photograph captures the tail section of a jet trainer aircraft on the ramp at North American Aviation's Los Angeles-area plant, identified by the factory sign proclaiming it the 'Home of the X-15.' The open access panel reveals internal avionics, while period automobiles fill the employee parking lot beyond, dating the image to the height of the X-15 rocket-plane research program in the late 1950s to 1960s. Project: 218217