General Dynamics USAF Military Aerospace Platform Concept model, 1985

[GTX]

Couldn't find a thread already (though there might be one - if so will move this to there). Model I spotted earlier this year:

 

[hesham]

My dear GTX,it's shape is very familiar ?.

 

[Michel Van]

looking on back end of Aircraft
could this part of 1980s BETA I & II ?
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/beta-beta-ii-spaceplane.5217/

 

[flateric]

Post in thread 'San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/san-diego-air-and-space-museum-archive.10117/post-394910

 

[flateric]

I remember someone suggested via catalog numbers that this was a second stage to abovementioned MAP

https://flic.kr/p/2j5WE3K

View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/49939044391/

 

[flateric]

MAP surely was a related/parallel study to TAV

 

[serg.gonzp]

Wouldn't this project have been linked to the Copper Canyon program?

 

[flateric]

Wouldn't this project have been linked to the Copper Canyon program?

No if you bother to read something about what COPPER CANYON was all about (airbreather SSTO).

 

[publiusr]

COPPER CANYON was rakish---this almost looks like a Bartini design--the first stage anyway.

I don't see any holes up top--so I assume each stage was its own display, unless it was modified so as to sell two models for more money.

The canard attachments look sloppy.

 

[Dew]

I don't see any holes up top

The orbiter stage was underslung à la BETA/II

 

[publiusr]

Like what was on Av Week years back:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstar_(spacecraft)Just bigger.

 

[Dynoman]

remember someone suggested via catalog numbers that this was a second stage to abovementioned MAP

It appears to have the same serial number as the Military Aerospace Platform (i.e. 92-306)

 

[Archibald]

Quick search brings a few meetings late 1984, where TAV and MAP seem to be one and the same thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q="military+aerospace+platform""1985"+filetypedf&client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=9b3df246ab02e7ef&filter=0&biw=1920&bih=919&dpr=1

 

[Archibald]

Google Books brings just one entry, albeit an interesting one
https://books.google.fr/books?id=-dSSaHvjo6gC&pg=PA49324&dq="military+aerospace+platform""1985"&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwteO0zo-PAxUWdqQEHSrIBMYQ6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q="military aerospace platform""1985"&f=false