NOTE: this is a revision of the original Archangel drawing posting. If you download the hi rez version, you can now see the dimensions of this craft.
Fourth in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” Here we have the initial “Archangel” design produced by Kelly Johnson. This is Figure 45. Due to low image quality in the original, this particular drawing has a Source Grade of two: 
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One Response to ““From RAINBOW to GUSTO:” Archangel… REVISED”
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The design looks like it was the end result of somebody in the Skunk Works making a model glider out of thin balsa wood sheet.
If you actually built it like that, you would have to make the whole tail assembly by milling it out of solid sheets of metal, and even then the attachment to the fuselage looks very suspect.
You could make a nifty model rocket boost glider out of this design though.
Those ramjet kite designs would also work great in that regard.