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A case could be make, that ISINGLASS / RHEINBERRY was the true "missile with a man in it".

Think it was one of Convair ISINGLASS concepts.

ISINGLASS PDF archived here: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/ISINGLASSDocs1.pdf

On a further note, and here's where I need a professional opinion, would ISINGLASS's tankage have been in tandem? Or would it have been in side-by-side lobes, ala X-33? Given what we know of design standards of the era, which one would have been more feasible for ISINGLASS?

This implies that GD was conducting a study similar to ISINGLASS, before ISINGLASS got underway, and may have been funded to examine the application of their design to the boost-glide reconnaissance concept (i.e. possibly GD's VL-3A design, which has been written as the first boost-glide design...

My thought on at least one of the missing data blanks prior to ISINGLASS, was the Alpha Draco (MDAC Model 122B) boost glide rocket with reconnaissance payload. Three successful launches from CCAS in 1959. It's research was very valuable to ISINGLASS and a reconnaissance payload variant of the...

Sounds right... Ah, here it is! https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/project-isinglass-project-rheinberry.382/post-474758 Convair early availability design R-3. Rocket powered to Mach 9 and 130kft via a 190klb thrust rocket. Subsonic propulsion prior to rocket ignition by a BS.100/8 for...

Those redacted boxes are tantalizing. Also never heard of Isinglass II.

How about Isinglass? Did it have any special TPS as well?

The doc confirms that there was a push for McDonnell Isinglass to be transferred from NRO to the Air Force around 1967. http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/NROStaffRecords/808.PDF The transfer and cancellation was documented by Dwayne Day in 2010: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1602/1

Earlier discussions in this thread centered on General Dynamics involvement in the ISINGLASS effort. Here a pre-approval contract is written with the CIA's technical representative, John Parangosky (of CIA airborne recon aircraft fame), to General Dynamics to redirect their study of an advanced...

Your source must be thinking of a different project, not ISINGLASS. There are at least a couple of declassified documents that indicate that ISINGLASS was air-launched (and a McD project, not GD as stated in the CIA history). "The ISINGLASS system is an advanced boost-glide vehicle. It is...

The B-52 could launch everything, even the kitchen sink. I'm reminded of ISINGLASS / RHEINBERRY.

Who needs Dynasoar, Aerospaceplane or ISINGLASS when the B-70 can fly into orbit ? :p

Excellent find! Information on Project Rheinberry (Advanced Aircraft Program) as a follow-on to Isinglass.

Bill Rose's SECRET PROJECTS: Military Space Technology speculates the IGV might be ISINGLASS.

That's possible. All that I know is what ISINGLASS was. Now to figure out RHEINBERRY...

I definitely think that Convair was an early developer of the concept (see Project Hazel 1958 CIA proposal), at least what would become ISINGLASS, if not the the originator of the cryptonym. The CIA had a contract with General Dynamics (which purchased Convair in 1953), which under contract...

Has any artwork of McDonnell's proposed successor to the SR-71, the Isinglass, ever been made public? During the "Blackstar" brouhaha, Dwayne Day claimed that he was working on a historical article about the Isinglass program. It appears that he's run into a brick wall of classification. If...

The GHOST ROCKET BLOG is no more! :'( http://ghostrocket.blogspot.com/2011/11/isinglass-precedents-and-successors-ii.html