Boeing Model 896 CAV / TAV studies

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Boeing 1982-1983 TSTO concept, IRAD work completed under USAF/Battele Labs contract
Patent No. 4,802,639, 1989
 

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More images from patent
 

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Basing on 1982-83 concept and armed with NASP sad experience, Boeing offered new TSTO concept in 1993, Orbiter would be either rocket powered or NASP-derived airbreather
 

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Here's a few basic renders I did some years ago.
 

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Have found these great CGI renderings of TSTO concept at www.robotpig.net
 

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remaining pics...
 

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Boeing models No.896-1256 & No.896-128 (Boeing 1993 RLV TSTO program). Published in Alexandre Szames, "Contre-enquete sur le mysterieux Blackstar" [Blackstar mystery counter-analysis], Air & Cosmos, 24/03/2006, pp.26-28
 

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Boeing 896-111 CAV/TAV study

http://www.dtic.mil/srch/doc?collection=t2&id=ADA259291
 

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A higher rez picture of Boeing Model 896-128 mothership from Air & Cosmos magazine hors-serie #45
 

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