Aerospace Picture of the Day

The HL-10 was always my favorite of the bunch. (The pointy one a few posts up the page is the X-24B.)

Oh yeah...on the HL-10. I was always amazed at the M2-F2, in that it could actually fly. To me, out of that original set of lifting body heavies, it was the most radical looking, being classified more of an "aircraft" than air plane...

Oh yeah...on the HL-10. I was always amazed at the M2-F2, in that it could actually fly. To me, out of that original set of lifting body heavies, it was the most radical looking, being classified more of an "aircraft" than air plane...

Simply aMaZinG looking

HL-20 lifting body. In my humble opinion, something like that or very similar should have been what the space shuttle was...let's see what the future holds;)

The similarities between SNC's new Dream Chaser and NASA's HL-20 concept are evident in this shot...

A numerically machined wax pattern of the NASA HL-20 orbital re-entry lifting body was cut from a CAD/CAM file. This nine-inch (23 cm) wax model was later used in a lost wax investment casting process to replicate the pattern in ceramic for wind-tunnel aero-heating studies. Credit: NASA

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/ne ... HL-20.html