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hesham said:I asked about this aircraft before,and again,was this a fighter derivative from
North American X-15 ?.
http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/File:LAL_57-5546.jpg
RanulfC said:Looks photo-shopped actually.
RanulfC said:Looks photo-shopped actually. The cockpit glass is far to big for the scale which would have your "cockpit" extending back into the fuel tank. Also the glass is totally unsuited for a hypersonic design, it would burn right through.
hesham said:I asked about this aircraft before,and again,was this a fighter derivative from
North American X-15 ?
http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/File:LAL_57-5546.jpg
hesham said:also from L + K magazine and Internet,the X-15 delta wing with ramjet test.
That's what the vertical text says - Grafika Giuseppe de Chiara.XP67_Moonbat said:Kinda looks like Archipeppe's artwork.
Orionblamblam said:These tests are written up, complete with craptacular photos, in: "Subsonic Flight Tests of a 1/7-Scale Radio-Controlled Model of the North American X-15 Airplane with Particular Reference to High Angel-of-Attack Conditions"
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19980223968
You really gotta watch out for angels on the attack, especially when they're high.
A 16-mmmotion-picture camera using a 17-mmwide-angle lens
was installed in the model with a system of mirrors which permitted apicture to be taken through the transparent cockpit canopy. Some of thetests were made with a double-mirror system which provided both a forwardand a rearward view, but for later tests this was replaced by asingle-mirror system which provided the same view a_ would be seen by
the pilot in the actual airplane.
Note: "x15scram2.jpg" is a *very* inaccurate drawing someone made from, presumably, the art in "x15scram1.jpg. And that is not a highly modified X-15, but an all-new design, the Manned Hypersonic Test Vehicle, shown here:
Wish I could provide more on the MHTV. Sadly the one guy who had the NAA MHTV report was ill-disposed to making copies due to a fear of ITAR regulations... and then he had the poor manners to up and die, I guess. But at least we got a few diagrams and some confirmations. That's more than a lot of other mysteries get.Thanks a lot Scott-san!!