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Which, amazingly and rarely enough, is actually on-topic for this newsgroup.
I've been rereading Milt Thompson's "Flying Without Wings", about the lifting body program at Dryden, and he writes about the waning days of the X-20 Dyna-Soar program (which he blames mainly on infighting within the USAF between the manned aerodynamic vehicle advocates, and the expendable rocket/ manned ballistic capsule advocates) and states that the manned aerodynamic vehicle crew were trying to get the complete Titan III/Dyna-Soar stack under the manual control of the pilot during the whole ascent. This sounds like something that would very tricky to do, and frankly I have a hard time understanding what exactly the advantage of such an approach would be, other than possibly for quick retargeting of the Dyna-Soar during a military mission. But in that case you would have to give the Dyna-Soar's guidance system the data anyway, so that the pilot would know what ascent profile to fly, so wouldn't it be just as easy to program the Titan III's guidance system with it? Pat |
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