Sep 272008
Circa 1960. Taken from a mockup review film.
Also shown was a rotating model of the cockpit section, with skin panels removed to show inner structure.
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Looks great from a paint point of view, but I don’t really think the underbelly paint scheme is going to survive reentry # 1.
May start out as red-white-black; ends up as all black.
Speaking of which, what’s going on with the vertical wingtip tailfins on that mock-up?
It looks like it doesn’t even have any, and yaw control is handled by opening upper/lower drag flaps on either wingtip.
This design had fins that not only projected up from the wingtips, but also down, forming stubby ventral fins. The leading edges are orange, the bulk of the fins is black.