Where the heck would the docking port be in that tiny thing? It's not a very useful thing without that...
Quote from: Lars_J on 12/18/2013 04:27 pmWhere the heck would the docking port be in that tiny thing? It's not a very useful thing without that...It was suposed to dock via the nose to the station as it was displayed at the NY World's Fair. I rotated the pic from the previous page.
Quote from: Rocket Science on 12/18/2013 05:16 pmQuote from: Lars_J on 12/18/2013 04:27 pmWhere the heck would the docking port be in that tiny thing? It's not a very useful thing without that...It was suposed to dock via the nose to the station as it was displayed at the NY World's Fair. I rotated the pic from the previous page.Perhaps, but none of the other images (of models and schematics) show anything like - or room for anything like - a docking mechanism.
If anyone knows where this vehicle is today please let us know!
Quote from: Rocket Science on 12/18/2013 05:49 pmIf anyone knows where this vehicle is today please let us know! Contact Jim O'Kane snip:its in a museum warehouse in Oklahoma. Repainted sometime in 1986 to look more like Dyna-Soarhttp://www.worldsfaircommunity.org/topic/10567-martin-company-at-hall-of-science/#entry84339
Was the "Yellowbird" basically the same space plane that David Janssen flew to rescue the Apollo vehicle "Ironman One" in the 1969 film "Marooned?" Sure looks like it...minus one fin...and with a big ole engine added to the rear...
Some great images here that I'd never seen before. Thanks for sharing! Here's an article I write on the design story that led to the Dream Chaser. It's still difficult to know how much the HL-10 et al influenced Mikoyan work on Spiral, but given that NASA made no secret of their work on Lifting Bodies I suspect they would certainly have been aware of the American designs.The influence of the BOR4 shape on the HL-20 is fully acknowledged so maybe the whole thing has just gone full-circle!https://thehighfrontier.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/dream-chaser-dna-a-story-of-spaceplane-evolution/
Yep, that's the one. I have one in my collection. Sort of my pride, along with the XSL-01. Unfortunately, it did not turn out so well as I would have liked when I built it.