Parasite aircraft Parasite aircraft The Bell X-1, originally XS-1 was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in controlled, level flight. It was the first of the so called X-planes, a series of aircraft designated for testing of new technologies and usually kept highly secret. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bell X-1"
The Bell X-2 Starbuster was an American research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2-3 range. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bell X-2"
The Boeing X-40A Space Maneuver Vehicle was part of the X-37 Future-X Reusable Launch Vehicle project. Built to 85 percent scale, in 2001 it successfully demonstrated the glide capabilities of the X-37's fat-bodied, short-winged design and validated the proposed guidance system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boeing X-40"
The X-43 is an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft design with multiple planned scale variations meant to test different aspects of highly supersonic flight. It is part of NASA's Hyper-X program. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boeing X-43"
The Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk was a light biplane fighter aircraft that was carried by the United States Navy airships USS Akron and USS Macon. ...more on Wikipedia about "F9C Sparrowhawk"
The FICON (Fighter Conveyor) program was conducted by the United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of an B-36 Peacemaker bomber carrying an F-84 parasite fighter in its bomb bay. ...more on Wikipedia about "FICON project"
The Lockheed D-21 was a Mach 3+ reconnaissance drone that began development in October 1962. Originally known by the Lockheed designation Q-12, it was intended to be launched off the back of the Lockheed A-12 for extra-long range flights and/or missions that were too dangerous for a manned vehicle. With a single Hycon high-resolution photographic camera, it was designed to fly over a pre-programmed location, and then drop the hatch containing the camera into the ocean, where it could be retrieved. The D-21 itself would then self-destruct. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lockheed D-21"
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The X-24 was an experimental US aircraft developed from a joint USAF- NASA program named PILOT (1963-1975). It was designed and built to test lifting body concepts, experimenting with the concept of unpowered reentry and landing, later used by the Space Shuttle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martin-Marietta X-24"
(Messerschmitt Me 328)
The North American X-15 rocket plane was perhaps the most important of the USAF/ USN X-series of experimental aircraft. Although not as famous as the Bell X-1, the X-15 set numerous speed and altitude records in the early 1960s, reaching the edge of space and bringing back valuable data that was used in the design of later aircraft and spacecraft. ...more on Wikipedia about "North American X-15"
The Northrop HL-10 was one of five heavyweight lifting body designs flown at NASA's Flight Research Center (FRC--later Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, from July 1966 to November 1975 to study and validate the concept of safely maneuvering and landing a low lift-over-drag vehicle designed for reentry from space. It was a NASA design and was built to evaluate "inverted airfoil" lifting body and delta planform. ...more on Wikipedia about "Northrop HL-10"
The Northrop M2-F2 was a heavyweight lifting body based on studies at NASA's Ames and Langley research centers. Built by the Northrop Corporation in 1966. The "M" refers to "manned" and "F" refers to "flight" version. ...more on Wikipedia about "Northrop M2-F2"
The Northrop M2-F3 was rebuilt from the M2-F2 at Northrop and redesignated the M2-F3 after the M2-F2 crashed at Dryden in 1967. It was modified with an additional third vertical fin -- centered between the tip fins -- to improve control characteristics. The "M" refers to "manned" and "F" refers to "flight" version. ...more on Wikipedia about "Northrop M2-F3"
A parasite aircraft is an aircraft which is carried underneath, and air launched by a mothership aircraft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Parasite aircraft"
A parasite fighter is a fighter aircraft intended to be carried into a combat zone by a larger aircraft, such as a bomber. If the bomber were threatened, it would be able to release the parasite to defend itself. Parasite fighters have never been highly successful and have seldom been used in actual combat. Projects for this type were designed to overcome the massive disparity in range between bombers and their escort fighters. Apart from the fact that none of these schemes worked particularly well, aerial refuelling has done away with the need for such schemes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Parasite fighter"
The Scaled Composites Model 316 SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplane that uses a hybrid rocket motor. The design features a unique " shuttlecock" reentry system whose half- delta wing folds upward at the center of its twin tail booms; this increases drag while remaining stable. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne"
(XF-85 Goblin)
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