Jun 162009
Here’s a concurrent contest. Since this one will be a bit trickier, I think, the prize is $30 worth of downloadables.
Name the country of origin, company/design bureau responsible, timeframe and program. I’ll leave this up till Friday or so.
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Is it Second stage of Spaceplane at the Advances Project Group at Kingston (UK)?
a X-20 proposal, that would be to easy with you
right ?
Without giving away whether you’re on the right track or not, that’s too vague of an answer.
One of 60s spaceplane projects from Hawker Siddeley’s Advanced Projects Group at Kingston
It looks most like the Martin X-23A to me, but that was an unmanned test vehicle and this thing seems to have windows. The shape is close. Almost all of those lifting body designs had cockpits on them, and this one doesn’t. Hmmm.
USAF Lunex Lunar Lander from the early 1960’s?
Main body is symetrical in two dimentions without any sign of a cockpit popping up that that is what is driving me nuts trying to figure it out.
Me too – It’s not one of the Bell BOMI ideas – those were more rounded. It’s not the XRV lifting body rescue ship from “Marooned,” either. The X-23A models I’ve seen are thicker. I thought I had this nailed…crud!
The French Dassault VEHRA space plane in its manned form from the 200-2003 time period?
Make that the 2000-2003 time period. 🙂
A whole lot of “nope” so far….
hmm, looks like the North American OTV (1963) and NA Space Bomber (1962) designs from the side (top/bottom symetrical, lack up up-juting canopy/cockpit) till you get to the areodynamic stablizers. Plus it’s triangalur foward with control surfaces aft … they are also wider aft from their midbody start to take into account the ‘Shuttlecock’ effect to inhance stablization. Post NASA HL-10 then.
You’re driving us nuts with this one you know. 😉
Lift Boy from MAN Technologie AG, Munich, Germany in 1993?
http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/1993/PV1993_5102.pdf
Lift Boy from MAN Technologie AG,. Munchen, Germany around 1993 for the Ariane 5?
http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/1993/PV1993_5102.pdf
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