| Poor Dyna-Soar. Even its name seems to have jinxed it. Some cool tech was there. They got so far with it as well — search for it on YouTube and you can find videos of various aspects of research that went into it. [1..6] I like the landing skids that used the stretching of metal as the means to adsorb the shock of landing - reminds me somewhat of the metal honeycomb that collapsed to adsorb the lunar module landing on the moon. I believe water circulated through the skin of the craft near the astronaut compartment to take heat away during reentry. I recall that the nose of the craft was made of a rather interesting material. That may've been shared with the X-15 as well. Enough blueprints too are available for the craft-that-never-flew that I enjoyed creating a kind of balsa-kit-that-never-existed. [7] A very pretty plane it was/wasnt. [1] https://youtu.be/TkWg4dd7e8w [2] https://youtu.be/8Bn5A0oNpuM [3] https://youtu.be/drfcrl_vc8M [4] https://youtu.be/muNYhj9DFrM [5] https://youtu.be/TikodTMGdP0 [6] https://youtu.be/NXD6oAEDKqA [7] https://imgur.com/a/VEqKG13 |