#x-24b

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X-24B

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Martin X-24B at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center - November 30, 1972

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Martin Marietta X-24A, Northrop M2-F3, and Northrop HL-10. Lifting Bodies Experimental aircraft on Rogers Dry Lakebed, 1970

➤VIDEO: https://youtu.be/5uhLZlbnAME

➤EXTREME AIRCRAFT VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/Extreme

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Make sure to visit the Space Gallery and the R&D Gallery on your next visit! #avgeek

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Size comparison between the Martin Marietta X-24A, Martin Marietta X-24B, and Lockheed X-24C (hypothetical).

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National Aviation Week

In honor of National Aviation Week, Archives Technician Aaron was looking through the National Archives catalog and came across an aircraft which looks like a spacecraft. It is a model of the X-24B being prepared for testing in a wind tunnel. The concept for this aircraft’s design was developed by Dr. Alfred J. Eggers. In 1957, Dr. Eggers came up with the lifting body series of aircraft, and the X-24B was the last of this series. These aircraft were designed to fly to space and then back to Earth and were the predecessors to the space shuttle. It always amazes me how a Buck Rogers-looking aircraft was designed 60 years ago, which makes me wonder what is being built today in the year 2020. 

For more about the X-24B, please visit this site.

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982-2007. Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. (National Archives Identifier 6344165). 

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45 YEARS AGO TODAY: Behold the experimental X-24B lifting body on the lakebed at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in California, November 30, 1972.

(NASA)

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Martin X-24B at the National Museum of the USAF