Something that didn;t end up in any of the BoMi articles for APR is the small bit of artwork below.
Bell reports tended to have a lot of “filler art”like this that showed simple sketches of vehicle which might, or might not, have been actual designs. However, the more I see, the more I conclude that most, if not all, of the vehicles sketched were based on at least *some* prior serious design work. This sketch, after all, shows at far left the first stage booster for the MX-2273 BoMi from 1953 (see issue V2N3 of APR for more on this vehicle). The vehicle at right shown in perspective is unknown to me, but the first stage has virtually the same wings as the first true Dyna Soar configuration proposed by the Martin-Bell team… same facetted airfoil, same cranked-delta, same wingtip fins. It’s possible that the Martin-Bell Dyna Soar was based on a prior Bell design for a much larger booster.
The MX-2273 is the second from the left, top row. See APR V2N3 for much more on this design – and many others.
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That mid-mounted vertical fin shown on the perspective drawing in the top illustration seemed to show up on a lot of Krafft Ehricke designs for manned RV’s.