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Think it was one of Convair ISINGLASS concepts.

ISINGLASS PDF archived here: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/ISINGLASSDocs1.pdf

On a further note, and here's where I need a professional opinion, would ISINGLASS's tankage have been in tandem? Or would it have been in side-by-side lobes, ala X-33? Given what we know of design standards of the era, which one would have been more feasible for ISINGLASS?

This implies that GD was conducting a study similar to ISINGLASS, before ISINGLASS got underway, and may have been funded to examine the application of their design to the boost-glide reconnaissance concept (i.e. possibly GD's VL-3A design, which has been written as the first boost-glide design...

My thought on at least one of the missing data blanks prior to ISINGLASS, was the Alpha Draco (MDAC Model 122B) boost glide rocket with reconnaissance payload. Three successful launches from CCAS in 1959. It's research was very valuable to ISINGLASS and a reconnaissance payload variant of the...

Sounds right... Ah, here it is! https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/project-isinglass-project-rheinberry.382/post-474758 Convair early availability design R-3. Rocket powered to Mach 9 and 130kft via a 190klb thrust rocket. Subsonic propulsion prior to rocket ignition by a BS.100/8 for...

Those redacted boxes are tantalizing. Also never heard of Isinglass II.

How about Isinglass? Did it have any special TPS as well?

The doc confirms that there was a push for McDonnell Isinglass to be transferred from NRO to the Air Force around 1967. http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/NROStaffRecords/808.PDF The transfer and cancellation was documented by Dwayne Day in 2010: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1602/1

Your source must be thinking of a different project, not ISINGLASS. There are at least a couple of declassified documents that indicate that ISINGLASS was air-launched (and a McD project, not GD as stated in the CIA history). "The ISINGLASS system is an advanced boost-glide vehicle. It is...