NASA FRC Hypersonic Research Aircraft (1975)

[flateric]

NASA Flight Research Center Hypersonic Research Aircraft (1975)
Estimated TOW 72,582 lb

Martin Marietta has built full-scale wing structure test article for this bird.

 

[Dew]

"Unkown X-plane - Martin Marietta NASA" from Drew Granston's excellent Lifting Body Aircraft Flickr album (check it out if you haven't seen it before).

 

[Archibald]

I rarely say that about hypersonic designs, but that one... ugh. Ugly as frack.

 

[Dew]

Oh, she's a beaut !







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Hypersonic wing test structure design, analysis, and fabrication & Comparison of measured and calculated temperatures for a Mach 8 hypersonic wing test structure