Supersonic/ Hypersonic in-flight refueling studies

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IIRC there were also B-58 and Suntan studies for a supersonic tanker.
 
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Oh boy, never knew that ! I suppose the deal was to get a special pod below the B-58 with LH2 for the Suntan ? the nice thing is, with an external pod you don't care about internal kerosene of the B-58. And you can put all the insulation and cold and safety you need on the pod. If something goes wrong, just drop the pod away,
 
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Oh boy, never knew that ! I suppose the deal was to get a special pod below the B-58 with LH2 for the Suntan ?
Click to expand...

One CL-400 would serve as a tanker for another. The B-58 pod might be good for some experiments, but it wouldn't hold near enough LH2 to be worth bothering with operationally.
 
Yep a mere 50 000 pounds or less, peanuts for Suntan which needed much more than that...
 
I've discovered something pretty exciting. Related to this.
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/douglas-mars-model-2235-aerospaceplane.7486/
Okay, so, they thought about wingtip to wingtip refueling at Mach 6, for Aerospaceplane plane, circa 1962.

But the same idea had been considered by Clarence L. Johnson for early A-12 Oxcart studies: Archangels: in 1959.

Look at the attached documents. It's a CIA memo, almost unreadable - it even screws OCR. So I denoised it, clean it to the maximum and managed to OCR it with my brain and hands. It's like a goddamn Red Sea Scroll !

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Ok so, so far we have
- a 1956 USAF request for a supersonic tanker (@Orionblamblam had a Douglas design at APR)
- B-58 tentatively supersonic-hydrogen-refueling of SUNTAN
- Lockheed A-7 wing tip to wing tip refueling
- Aerospaceplane same scheme
 
Douglas Supersonic Tanker
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/douglas-mach-2-0-tanker.5285/post-407900
CONVAIR MODEL 14
HIGH SPEED JET TANKER
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...e-and-convair-model-numbers.11189/post-231679
Lockheed CL-400 Suntan
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/lockheed-cl400-suntan.7228/post-341382https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/picture-on-the-wall.16091/post-186432
NAA B-70 VARIANTS
BY TONY LANDIS
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/naa-b-70-valkyrie-variants-article-by-tony-r-landis.35915/PDF PAGE: 15
- B-70 Supersonic Refueling

Douglas Aerospaceplane Hypersonic Refueling
(NOTE THE REFUELING BOOM)
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/douglas-mars-model-2235-aerospaceplane.7486/post-695607
Northrop PROFAC
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aerospaceplane-1958-1963.1079/post-860201
 
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