I knew it was on here somewherez;
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US Lifting Bodies Studies - START (ASSET/PRIME), FDL, X-24, etc.
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And Scott's article, (begins on page 28) on the concept and it's possible roles:
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I contribute photos from my private collection of X-24 B photos (source AFFTC)
Ithacus - 1200 troops in one ship! and jetpacks for the troops! wow.
Holy-heck! It's the wind tunnel model for the "Boost-Glide Reentry Vehicle suitable for Operation as a Supersonic Aircraft” from Tech Memorandum X-656 dated 1963! It came in two flavors:
1) The first was a bit crowded 6 person RV which after the wings folded down and the fins deployed it would blow off the nose cap, (triangular bit on the front) to open an air intake to two turbojet engines for fly-back and cruise.
2) Version two was a four-turbojet single seat Mach 2 FIGHTER aircraft that could be delivered by sub-orbital trajectory anywhere in the world in under an hour! IIRC Scott suggested in might have been proposed/studied as a possible "secure-the-airspace" concept to clear the airspace for an incoming "Ithacus" troop transport ballistic rocket. (Neat I found a link to an original presentation)
It appears to be one of the models where the wings were not fully 'hinged' so that is only a single wing-position setting. The wings would normally fold over the 'top' of the vehicle and the forward area sealed with a cover that would be jettisoned once reentry was completed. The wing would then fold down to 'level' and the fins to upright.
I don't even have to look to know I can't afford this but it's neat that at least one model still exists.
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Or as one illustration showed jetpacks AND a VERY long (and steep) inflatable escape slide... I have a suspicion that 'slide-out' at the end is going to be long, rough or both :
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Multhopp was closely involved in Martin X-24A so it must be related... it certainly has a "X-24 look " to it. Exactly the X-24B with its extremely long and pointy nose (although Muthopp died in October 1972 so he didn't saw it fly).
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I didn't talk about the Model,I spoke about those Projects?.
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Looks like the M2F1 lifting body.... Mark
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Yes, it is definitely a M2-F1 scale model.
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Located video and took a picture of the M2-F1 during rollout with vertical stabilizer.
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From, Air University Review,19,
the number 3-1,I displayed it wrong in Dyna Soar's topic.
the number 3-1,I displayed it wrong in Dyna Soar's topic.
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Note: Due to NASAs incessant tinkering with their websites, these links are now long dead. However, at least for the moment they *seems* to be available here:
PENLAND X-24C/HYFAC/L-301 - NasaCRgis
EDIT: Nope, I'm wrong. Those links are busted too. Frak. Anybody save all these?
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Crgis is dead and also wasnt indexed by tge Internet Archive so yes we are out of luck unless someone downloaded them.
fwiw I appear to have X-24C 12-I & L-301 saved
is there an attachment size limit? They are a shade over 10mb ea.
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Some other images of the Canadair lifting body...
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I have a bunch of them.
Folder "60s hypersonic research vehicles"
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Shared to you via Google drive.
Thanks. I'm uploading to the SPF sub-folder what PEN files weren't otherise visible (40-some files). If you already have 'em, feel free to delete.
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The book didn't really go,into too much detail on it
Some in the West thought the BORs were scale models of a Buran sized lifting body to be called "Energia-Uragan" (Hurricane) by
the German magazine (GDR) "Freie Welt" in December 1987 (the author of the rightmost figure and article is Klaus Huhndorf);
"The most interesting thing is that our orbital ship " Buran " really could have been exactly the way the German artist presented it, if the Council of Chief Designers, headed by V.P. Glushko, at its meeting on June 11, 1975, accepted G. E. Lozino-Lozinsky to take as a basis for the Soviet reusable spacecraft project "305-1", developed on the basis of "Spiral" (and, accordingly, "BORa-4") with a "load-bearing body" layout at NPO Molniya (and EMZ named after Myasishchev )."
This could have been the largest lifting body built, though Mark Wade had "Uragan" as part of N1:
I wonder is Super Heavy could be configured thusly, so as to look something like the old ferry rocket:
www.wired.com
Musk wasn't the first to suggest military applications for rockets beyond warheads
I wouldn't take that last very seriously---though it makes a bit more sense than the last Fast & Furious movie.
the German magazine (GDR) "Freie Welt" in December 1987 (the author of the rightmost figure and article is Klaus Huhndorf);
"The most interesting thing is that our orbital ship " Buran " really could have been exactly the way the German artist presented it, if the Council of Chief Designers, headed by V.P. Glushko, at its meeting on June 11, 1975, accepted G. E. Lozino-Lozinsky to take as a basis for the Soviet reusable spacecraft project "305-1", developed on the basis of "Spiral" (and, accordingly, "BORa-4") with a "load-bearing body" layout at NPO Molniya (and EMZ named after Myasishchev )."
This could have been the largest lifting body built, though Mark Wade had "Uragan" as part of N1:
I wonder is Super Heavy could be configured thusly, so as to look something like the old ferry rocket:
Wernher von Braun's Fantastic Vision: Ferry Rocket
Some of the most recognizable and iconic conceptual spacecraft designs ever proposed are those of Wernher von Braun’s space popularization campaign of the 1950s. This post will look at just one of them in detail: the three-stage ferry rocket for launching crews and cargoes into Earth orbit that...
Musk wasn't the first to suggest military applications for rockets beyond warheads
I wouldn't take that last very seriously---though it makes a bit more sense than the last Fast & Furious movie.
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Uragan is a myth, nothing to do with reality of Bor programme.
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