(pacplyer) wrote:

So what do we have now? The OrbitOne vehicle on top of the tow
aircraft courtesy Jim Morgan's good idea. It just has to clear the
74 vertical stab at release; but the Space Shuttle "Enterprise" test
vehicle proved that can be done.

There were two SR-71s that could cary a high speed drone on top and release
them to streak across enemy teritory. One is hanging at the Museum of Flight at
Boeing Field. The other was destroyed in a fatal test that ended the program.

-- Charlie Springer