HYWARDS?

[antigravite]

Hi all,

I just came across a youtube video from the 1950s titled "Low-Speed Flight Tests of Hypersonic Boost-Glide Airplane Models". I do not know their origins but from my recollection one of these shapes is HYWARDS.

link there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUZgbveDCk.

Enjoy!

 

[Orionblamblam]

For more on HYWARDS, check out Dennis R Jenkins' article in the latest issue of Aerospace Projects Review.
http://www.up-ship.com/eAPR/ev2n4.htm

 

[antigravite]

whaoh! Thx

 

[DSE]

From Transition to Space: A History of "Space Plane" Concepts at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory 1952-1957, by James Hansen.

 

[hesham]

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