Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story by R. Dale Reed, Darlene Lister

Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story

R. Dale Reed, Darlene Lister

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Most lifting bodies, or "flying bathtubs" as they were called, were so ugly only an engineer could love them, and yet, what an elegant way to keep wings from burning off in supersonic flight between earth and orbit. Working in their spare time (be...

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