Steve Austin had a 6 million dollar experience out of one of those things...
December 3, 1963, I took my first flight on the M2-F1 lifting body. I said, “She handles great!” upon landing. @usairforce @HISTORY #lifting #aviation
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That was the M2-F2. I actually got to work with Bruce Peterson at Northrop for a while - he was the pilot of that ill fated flight. He lost an eye, but otherwise recovered!
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I wish I got to fly weird things. But nooooo I got stuck with hornets.
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I didn’t know you flew the lifting body! Kinda slow for you wasn’t it? :)
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when you’ve got one shot to land an elegant bathtub, I imagine the ground comes at you fast enough. but without those tests, there wouldn’t have been a space shuttlepic.twitter.com/XFsWWL8l0L
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Was that with or without a center stab?
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That seems like a lifetime ago... well... MY lifetime anyway. I was one month old on that day. What a moment.
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General, did you fly the HL-10 or X-24 ?
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How long, or rather, how short, did the glide from the mother plane take?
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