A film (via the National Archives) from the USAF in 1961: “Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion, Manned Aircraft Progress Report for 1956 – 1958.” Provides a lot of good views of the double-barreled XMA-1 nuclear turbojet. Also illustrates a number of proposed nuclear powered aircraft… research testbeds including the NX-2 and the WS-125A nuclear powered bomber.
NASA-Langley film from1963 showing a 1/12 scale Saturn I model dropped from a helicopter, using a Rogallo wing for recovery. Considerable work went into using this system for S-IB recovery, landing on a runway for refurbishment and reflight. The booster would land horizontally on four skids. There’s a good chance it would not have worked,…
The June rewards were sent out July 1. If you are a subscriber or Patron, you *should* have received an email with links/passwords. Purely by chance, all of the Documents this time came from periodicals. This, so far as I can recall, hasn’t happened before in the last 12 years. Rewards this month include: Diagram:…
