US Lifting Bodies Studies - START (ASSET/PRIME), FDL, X-24, etc.

[Archibald]

@Stargazer has tracked down two documents (from the broken links). God bless his soul.

 

[SpaceMonk]

Hi,

The McDonnell Douglas Model-176 was hypersonic spacecraft,but when
I search about it I found a Models of hypersonic aircraft not known,
see the picture,

 

[Barrington Bond]

Seems to remind of just before the millennium...

 

[publiusr]

Seems to remind of just before the millennium...

I take it the rest of the Super-Swift crashed?

 

[Dew]

@Stargazer has tracked down two documents (from the broken links). God bless his soul.

Another one for the X-24C pile I'd saved back then the links worked

 

[Dew]

Late '60's FDL-9 glider from Airbreathing Hypersonic Propulsion

 

[hesham]

From Boeing magazine 1964

 

[alpha_k]

finally, someone find where BGRV hidding in
USAF museum, he said the noisetip of this collection is made by depleted uranium(or depleted uranium inside the noisetip as ballast?) thus the museum deside not to display it. by the way,the last aircraft has been damaged,sad.maybe the staff didn't know how to dismantle it.

so the question is : why they use DU?

 

[GTX]

so the question is : why they use DU?

Presumably because of its density