#m2f3

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#OTD in 1971, the M2-F3 lifting body went supersonic for the first time. The rocket-powered M2-F3 was launched from beneath a B-52 mothercraft at an altitude of 45,000 feet and would glide to a landing.

This photo of it launching from a B-52 was taken earlier in August 1971.

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