ID this aircraft

 contest, drawings
Jun 162009
 

Another one that *should* be easy. I’ll leave this up till Friday or so, though I suspect someone’ll get it. First respondant to correctly ID this gets $15 off of any of my downloadables.

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 Posted by at 7:56 pm

  7 Responses to “ID this aircraft”

  1. Jose Miraglia says:
    June 17, 2009 at 7:45 am

    Manned Flyback Booster early shuttle configuration OK

    Thanks

  2. admin says:
    June 17, 2009 at 9:04 am

    Without giving away whether you’re on the right track or not, that’s too vague of an answer.

  3. Michel Van says:
    June 17, 2009 at 10:16 am

    General Dynamics – Convair division
    “reusable space launch vehicle system study”

    aka Manned Reusable Flyback Atlas

    picture show the Cockpit on first stage

  4. admin says:
    June 17, 2009 at 10:24 am

    > Manned Reusable Flyback Atlas

    And we have a winner.

    Why this one was easy: It’s on this very website.
    http://www.up-ship.com/blog/drawndoc/drawndocspaceother.htm#spacedoc52
    http://www.up-ship.com/blog/drawndoc/sdoc52ani.gif

  5. Michel Van says:
    June 17, 2009 at 10:45 am

    YEEEEPIE !!!

    it was the Gemini seat in cockpit and diameter of 10 ft
    who give me Answer…

  6. Pat Flannery says:
    June 19, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    Isn’t the aerodynamic stress on the frontal hemispherical nose going to be pretty high as the first stage starts to return to the lower atmosphere?
    When I first saw the drawing it reminded me of something, and what it reminded me of was the front of a WW II Hamilcar glider:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M22_locust_06.jpg
    Although in this case it’s a LOX tank, not a Locust tank, that is in it. 🙂

  7. admin says:
    June 20, 2009 at 12:44 am

    Re-entry would occur at a pretty steep angle of attack. The round nose won’t matter so much then.

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