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"neopeius" wrote:


Pat Flannery wrote:
neopeius wrote:

Greetings, all. I was invited to join this group by Derek Lyons who
rather convincingly explained to me that the X-15b as proposed was a
non-starter.


Question on the week.. is the "X-15B" supposed to be the one with the
delta wings and the extended nozzle on the LR-99?

Yes, and 1-3 Navahos designed to throw it into a sub-orbital skip jaunt
around the world. Derek says it's un-possible.

The delta wing is the X-15A-3 [1], the X-15B [2] had the normal wing.

D.

[1] http://www.astronautix.com/craft/x15a3.htm
[2] http://www.astronautix.com/craft/x15b.htm
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In article ,
Derek Lyons wrote:
The delta wing is the X-15A-3...

No, it was the "delta-wing X-15", or the "X-15-3 delta-wing conversion", a
rebuild of X-15-3 (the third X-15) to a delta wing. As best I can tell,
it seems to have never got far enough to have an official X designation.

The idea that it would be "X-15A-3" seems based on a misunderstanding of
what "X-15A-2" meant. (It was not "second version of the X-15A" but
"rebuild of X-15-2 to X-15A configuration".) Had it flown, "X-15B-3"
would be most likely, although it's hard to be sure.

the X-15B ... had the normal wing.

No, there never was an X-15B. There was an NAA *proposal* for an orbital
"X-15B" (really a new aircraft with the X-15 shape and some X-15 systems),
but it was never officially assigned that designation.
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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Ok, the real question is, "Are you a turtle?"


The real question is, "Do you have a sweet ass?"

That's the first question asked of new arrivals in OM's killfile.

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:08:48 -0400, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote:

The real question is, "Do you have a sweet ass?"

That's the first question asked of new arrivals in OM's killfile.

....Actually, the Znkfbaf don't care about the taste, just as long as
it's tight.
OM
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