North American XSM-64 Navaho

[Orionblamblam]

Available here:

http://www.up-ship.com/drawndoc/drawndocair.htm

This includes a very large drawings of the missile and booster meant specifically for model makers; Standard Aircraft/Missile Characteristics of two early variants; rare drawings of the 1949 over/under ramjet version; a few other drawings and 49 photos of the Navaho on display near Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

 

[sferrin]

Available here:

http://www.up-ship.com/drawndoc/drawndocair.htm

This includes a very large drawings of the missile and booster meant specifically for model makers; Standard Aircraft/Missile Characteristics of two early variants; rare drawings of the 1949 over/under ramjet version; a few other drawings and 49 photos of the Navaho on display near Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Any chance you might offer all of your Pluto/SLAM stuff?

 

[Orionblamblam]

Eventually, yes. Scanning a boatload more Dyna Soar stuff now. The trick is in finding things to sell that won't get corporations ticked off at me.

 

[flateric]

XSM-64A wind tunnel model drawings and photos found at NTRS

keyword, as you can assume, 'navaho'

 

[Grif]

OrionBlamBlam, does this include stuff about the "Nuclear-powered V2"?
Grif

 

[airrocket]

Flateric thanks soooooooooooo much for those ram-jet diagrams. Dimensions.....Yes!!!!!

 

[sferrin]

 

[hesham]

Hi,


does anyone know this Boeing experimental ramjet missile,which related
to NATIV ?.


http://www.boeingimages.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2JRSN2PXSFBD&SMLS=1&RW=1152&RH=720

 

[Orionblamblam]

It an early design for the North American Aviation's Navaho missile, and was described as such at the link. And it not only wasn't hypersonic, it wasn't *described* as hypersonic, so I don't know why this thread is titled that.

 

[hesham]

Oh sorry for that my dear Scott,


I use Google for search about Hypersonic missile,and I switched the title,I will fix it.

 

[hesham]

Old Info From Internet,

there was an attempt to make a manned interceptor version of Navaho ?,
of course I am not sure.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Hi,


does anyone know this Boeing experimental ramjet missile,which related
to NATIV ?.


http://www.boeingimages.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2JRSN2PXSFBD&SMLS=1&RW=1152&RH=720

It was an early research project by North American (NATIV stood for North American Test Instrumentation Vehicle) and was to gather data on supersonic flight as well as prove methods to get and record data from missile tests. North American had the bad luck to use Wasserfall as the design basis for NATIV. Of six known launches only one was successful. The project lasted about a year or so.

As for the picture...

I suspect, but can't say for sure, that it is an early proposed version of the BOMARC missile. It wouldn't be related to NATIV however, and is more likely to be related as a follow-on to Boeing's GAPA SAM missile.

 

[klem]

A picture of NA-704 Mockup.

 

[Mark Nankivil]

With huge thanks to Gerald Balzer yet again, behold more from the development of the NAA Navaho...

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[publiusr]

Back on display after the hurricane damage?

 

[Deleted member 2278]

MX-770 (X-10) testing:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20050029470/downloads/20050029470.pdf

 

[The K2]

In case anyone is interested, the engineering model for the Navaho is at the Planes of Fame Air Museum at Chino Airport. While I took a lot of photos (which are filed away) the model is currently not on display. It is in storage and would be brought out again at a later date. The museum’s founder, Ed Maloney, told me this before he passed away. This photo was found on the Up Ship site.

 

[Grey Havoc]

More modest (and realistic) proposals for lunar missions, which could be flown in the near term using available technology, were studied by a wide range of groups. In the two years leading up to the launch of Sputnik and the beginning of the Space Age, serious proposals included one by Aerojet Corporation (which today is part of Aerojet Rocketdyne) to use a five-stage version of its Aerobee sounding rocket to send a probe to the Moon as well as Ford’s Aeronutronic division using a lash up of the Vanguard and X-17 rockets, Martin (which today is part of the aerospace giant Lockheed Martin) using their Titan ICBM then under development, and the USAF employing the rocket booster of the Navaho cruise missile (then the largest American rocket to fly) combined with the Redstone and solid upper stages. The RAND Corporation proposed a lunar impactor launched using a version of the Atlas ICBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied recoverable lunar probes.

 

[flateric]

Project MX-770 News Report No. 9 : United States. Air Force : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Summary: Coverage and explanation of the following phases of the Nativ and the Navaho missiles: Preliminary analysis, aerodynamics, airframe, guidance, and...

archive.org

 

[flateric]

NAVAHO MISSILE : NASA/Glenn Research Center : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

NAVAHO MISSILE

archive.org

 

[NMaude]

Project MX-770 News Report No. 9 : United States. Air Force : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Summary: Coverage and explanation of the following phases of the Nativ and the Navaho missiles: Preliminary analysis, aerodynamics, airframe, guidance, and...

archive.org

I do believe that video has been available on YT for years now, I'd love to see the other reports.