Re: Lockmart CEV design released



Jeff Findley wrote:

Actually it looks like this gizmo when seen from the top:
http://www.arnold.af.mil/aedc/systems/60-933.jpg



That certainly looks like an early Dynasoar wind tunnel model.  Scott
Lowther would no doubt be able to tell you more than I.



I should have included the whole page:
http://www.arnold.af.mil/aedc/systems/60-933.htm
The drawing of the same design in Miller's book is from 1957.
Speaking of water landings, here a model of Dyna-Soar gets ready for a ditching test at Langley in 1961:
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4308/p96a.jpg
....at least I assume they are doing a ditching test, unless this is somehow related to testing its aerodynamics in a dense medium.

Pat
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