07-08-2018, 06:24 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Needville and Shiner, TX
Posts: 6,134
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Originally Posted by Doug Sams
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Looks like the real thing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGO57y4td-c
They used actual footage of a NASA lifting body test flight that ended in a crack up where the pilot lost an eye IIRC...
One reason why NASA's never been crazy about lifting bodies since then-- not much control authority and lots of roll instability... Course that was 50 years ago using all manual controls-- nowdays with computerized fly-by-wire... Well, it's a different story...
Later! OL J R
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