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The Spatula nose was very well-researched during the time of the NASP (and it did have its advantages - thermally as I recall). I've also read recently that such a nose could effectively be used as part of the intake system for a high-speed airbreathing engine (the engine arrangement of which would match this alleged configuration). I'm still interested in this one (of course whilst acknowledging the suspect story plus 2495's vanishing act) but that's because I've always privately believed that in the clear absence of a 'sophisticated' Hypersonic aircraft (eg: an 'Aurora'), the only way to actually get to affordable and operational 'High-Speed' (starting in the mid-to-late eighties/early nineties) would have been sheer brute force. As an aside, I note that THIS looks like THIS, which is as also seen in the ANSER Paper.
The Spatula nose was very well-researched during the time of the NASP (and it did have its advantages - thermally as I recall). I've also read recently that such a nose could effectively be used as part of the intake system for a high-speed airbreathing engine (the engine arrangement of which would match this alleged configuration).
I'm still interested in this one (of course whilst acknowledging the suspect story plus 2495's vanishing act) but that's because I've always privately believed that in the clear absence of a 'sophisticated' Hypersonic aircraft (eg: an 'Aurora'), the only way to actually get to affordable and operational 'High-Speed' (starting in the mid-to-late eighties/early nineties) would have been sheer brute force.
As an aside, I note that THIS looks like THIS, which is as also seen in the ANSER Paper.
