Sep 182009
Lockheed’s basic plan for a ferry aircraft of the Orbiter was, unsurprisingly, a C-5 Galaxy. This would have been a lot simpler aircraft to develop than the twin-fuselage Galaxy, though it would require more infrastructure at any landing site in order to pick up the orbiter and put it on the C-5’s back.
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Assuming they were going to do the drop tests off of it as well, I’d be concerned about the proximity of the streamlined boat-tail to the aircraft’s T-tail.