Aerospaceplane - 1961

The latest issue of Aerospace Projects review has a few articles ont
he early 60's Aerospaceplane project. Numerous drawings, as well as
all-new color artwork produced for this issue.

http://www.up-ship.com/eAPR/ev2n5.htm

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The latest issue of Aerospace Projects review has a few articles ont
he early 60's Aerospaceplane project. Numerous drawings, as well as
all-new color artwork produced for this issue.

http://www.up-ship.com/eAPR/ev2n5.htm

The Lockheed version was the first project I worked on when I graduated
from college! It was the wet dream of the Air Force for a LONG time!

The idea was to takeoff from a runway, accelerate to Mach 6-7 on
turboramjets, scoop up lots of air, liquefy it, light the rockets and
zoom into low Earth orbit. Return was also to land on the same (or
similar) runway.

My -- how innocent we were!

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The Lockheed version was the first project I worked on when I graduated
from college! It was the wet dream of the Air Force for a LONG time!

The idea was to takeoff from a runway, accelerate to Mach 6-7 on
turboramjets, scoop up lots of air, liquefy it, light the rockets and
zoom into low Earth orbit. Return was also to land on the same (or
similar) runway.


This sounds like the operating principle of HOTOL and Skylon.

Pat