The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Oct. 11, 1965, issue featured Northrop Corp.'s M2-F2 lifting body research vehicle mated to the wing of a Boeing B-52 at NASA’s Flight Research Center ...
Click to open image viewer. This M2-F2 Lifting Body model of unknown scale was given to Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1958 until ...
How NASA's HL-10 lifting body proved wingless reentry and runway landings were possible, shaping future space shuttle design.