The Space Shuttle started with auto tow

[Bill Daniels]

http://www.spacemart.com/reports/The_M2_F1_An_Aircraft_Without_Wings_999.html

[Paul Remde]

Hi,

You can see the M2-F1 takeoff and land in the Disney film "The Boy Who Flew
With Condors". Details are available here:
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/videos.htm#BoyWhoFlewWithCondors

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com

"Bill Daniels" <bildan@comcast-dot-net> wrote in message
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> http://www.spacemart.com/reports/The_M2_F1_An_Aircraft_Without_Wings_999.html
>

[Jim Beckman[_2_]]

At 14:08 20 August 2008, Bill Daniels wrote:
>http://www.spacemart.com/reports/The_M2_F1_An_Aircraft_Without_Wings_999.html

Isn't it a bit of a stretch to consider this to be a predecessor
to the Space Shuttle? I wouldn't classify the shuttle as a
lifting body.

Jim Beckman

[J a c k]

Jim Beckman wrote:
> At 14:08 20 August 2008, Bill Daniels wrote:
>> http://www.spacemart.com/reports/The_M2_F1_An_Aircraft_Without_Wings_999.html
>
> Isn't it a bit of a stretch to consider this to be a predecessor
> to the Space Shuttle? I wouldn't classify the shuttle as a
> lifting body.



"Although in the end the lifting body design was rejected for the
shuttle, the lifting bodies provided extensive data on the aerodynamics
and controllability of a low lift-over-drag unpowered vehicle that was
directly applicable to the design of the shuttles."


Jack