Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Nov. 25, 1970, an experimental aircraft called the Northrop M2-F3 made its first powered flight. The M2-F3 was a heavyweight ...
Click to open image viewer. This M2-F3 lifting body was the first of the heavyweight, wingless lifting body research craft of the 1960s. The lifting body programs tested the concept of achieving ...
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Flight test files: Northrop HL-10 – Solving the aerodynamics of reentry
How NASA's HL-10 lifting body proved wingless reentry and runway landings were possible, shaping future space shuttle design.
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