National Aero-Space Plane - NASP - X-30

[RanulfC]

This wonderful image was posted here back in 2006, but here's the blurb that went with it in the August 1992 issue of Popular Mechanics.

So much of the press coverage of the X-30 was focused on the "5 minutes to Tokyo!" civilian transport plan, so all I can see in this pic is the pilots Noping out and dumping a fuselage full of hydrogen and screaming commuters.

Well this IS the "X-30" or test article. Though to be fair this wasn't the design at the time, they design at this point had the crew buried in the fuselage due to heating issues

Randy

 

[Copperhead]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155484650287


So, this thing is floating around on ebay.

 

[flateric]

from NARA

 

[Dew]

not entirely sure but I have this saved as a Lockheed NASP proposal

 

[Dew]

from National Aerospace Plane (NASP) Fiscal Year 1991 RDT&E Budget Request



and from AW&ST

 

[archipeppe]

Oddly the second slide represents something really similiar to rumored AURORA rather the real X-30's configuration...

 

[flateric]

Oddly the second slide represents something really similiar to rumored AURORA rather the real X-30's configuration...

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/national-aerospace-plane-nasp-x-30.250/post-1492

 

[Dew]

Oddly the second slide represents something really similiar to rumored AURORA rather the real X-30's configuration...

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/national-aerospace-plane-nasp-x-30.250/post-1492

Quite - I was about to say, archetypal MCAIR shape

 

[mjmackowski]

A McDAC incarnation, a bit chewed up

Slightly better version (tighter/different crop) of the airport pic in this. I took it from a booklet/pamphlet (don't think it was strictly NASP, could have been UTC maybe?) I found online a good while back and for the life of me can't find the same

This is McDonnell Douglas photo D4C-120811.

 

[flateric]

baseline cutaway

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[flateric]

X-30 National Aerospace Plane Desktop Model-Solid Resin General Dynamics Version | #1824605894

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[flateric]

...

 

[flateric]

Actually, with the high level of probability, *this* is final X-30 confuguration.
At least Pratt&Whitney paper authors state so.

NASP configuration labeled "c202" so seems "converged" a202 was just a start of many others

 

[flateric]

...

 

[publiusr]

Any art of the accurate cockpit?

 

[flateric]

This is McDonnell Douglas photo D4C-120811.

From the same series, unfortunately cropped

 

[flateric]

Configuration 201A

 

[Cosmic Planes]

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not entirely sure but I have this saved as a Lockheed NASP proposal

Lockheed credited this image to "United States Air Force Systems Command" so I wonder if that can help us find this image in better quality, more images of this design or any details if this was more than just a one and done idea painting

 

[flateric]

Boeing X-30 placeholder

 

[Dew]

...

Is this the MRRV?

 

[Dew]

from 'Mastering the Transatmosphere', Air Force Magazine June '86

 

[Dew]

Another NASP promo from Rockwell International

Same but with blurb from rear:

...

Again:

 

[Tuomasn]

A McDAC incarnation, a bit chewed up

A bit better version of the companion painting to the above one. Also this is the correct orientation based on the signature at bottom right. Seems to be the same Horonzar who painted the MD-2001 Orient Express.

 

[Dew]

Model of transatmospheric vehicle (TAV); aerospace plane capable of traveling at hypersonic speed conceived by NASA & Dept. of Def.

 

[publiusr]

That screams Orient Express.

When I see “TAV” I think of something smaller—though the term is technically correct.

 

[Dew]

House Science and Technology Committee

High Speed Aeronautics​

Witnesses testified on the different challenges facing the development of high speed transports and transatmospherics flight.
Including input from
Robert Cooper Doctor DARPA
Robert Williams Program Manager Department of Defense->Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Marc Constantine Vice President Aerojet

Airing Details​

Jul 24, 1985 | 1:00am EDT | C-SPAN 1

 

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[flateric]

https://flic.kr/p/6Vgr3U

View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bertreiheld/3884569076/

 

[Dynoman]

A nice cutaway of the X-30 and Astronaut Joe Engle in NASP mockup cockpit.

 

[Dynoman]

Unfamiliar with this cockpit simulator for NASP. I believe its possibly a Rockwell concept.

 

[flateric]

So fancy, so wrong

 

[Dew]

Cropped and slightly de-skewed from NARA

 

[publiusr]

Not quite as chisel nosed there.

 

[Cosmic Planes]

DuPont-Boeing model

 

[Cosmic Planes]

General Dynamics model

 

[Cosmic Planes]

Rockwell International model

 

[Cosmic Planes]

Final NASA design model

 

[Dew]

Rocketdyne NASP proporsal

Cropped from NARA/GRC image:

 

[Dew]

Slightly tenuous posting in this thread (i.e. ATR is related, not so sure about the depicted vehicle), from eBay listings taken from I think AFSM 1986 (unknown issue) :