Jan 302010
 

I took this photo of a glossy at the Niagara Aerospace Museum back in 2007. Sadly, the scanner was not functional, so photography was all that was available to me. No further data on this, though I would suspect early 1960’s. The Niagara Aerospace Museum itself sorta disappeared, being reformed as the Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum, but I don’t know what the status of the archive is.

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 Posted by at 8:28 pm

  3 Responses to “Bell Lifting Body”

  1. Looks workable, but they sure don’t seem keen on putting cockpit windows on these things, do they?
    And the back ends look tough to integrate into a cylindrical booster.
    The engine looks like the one off of the Jupiter IRBM, or the Atlas sustainer engine.

  2. wat happen with engine during reentry in the atmosphere ?
    or is this drop from LB ?

  3. That’s a good question; it looks like a fairly simple engine design, maybe they do just jettison it after retrofire.
    It could also slide forward into the body I suppose.

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