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Published: 2019-07-14 04:22:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 5363; Favourites: 243; Downloads: 54
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The Northrop HL-10 was a NASA heavy lifting body design built to study the inverted airfoil and delta configuration. It was one of five lifting body designs flown by NASA between 1966 and 1975. The aircraft were flown at the NASA Flight Research Center (later known as Dryden Flight Research Center).The aircraft were flown to high altitude suspended below the wing of a B-52 aircraft. Once altitude was reached the craft would be released. The HL-10 was the most successful of the five designs. It flew 37 times and attained a maximum speed of Mach 1.86 and a maximum altitude of 90,303 feet on two different flights.
The data gathered from the lifting body test flights proved valuable during the design of the Space Shuttle.
The HL-10 was famously featured during the opening scenes of the "Six Million Dollar Man". Lee Majors as Colonel Steve Austin is shown piloting the craft and other footage of the crash of a different lifting body (Northrop M2F2) is shown.
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Lovely image of my absolute favorite lifting body!
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This machine haunted my dreams for the longest time after having seen the series as a child.
Now, through the magic/power of the internet I'm able to learn so much about this craft and its sisters/cousins/stablemates.
Cheers.
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Most of the astronauts would have preferred being able to fly and land their capsules like planes instead of just floating down like a projectile with a parachute. I always did like the design of this bird more than the others. Beautiful pic!
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Stunning image of a beautiful aircraft! 
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Thank you. Pilots actually complained about the limited visibility due to the very high sides of the cockpit.Β
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Ah... I suppose they could not see over the edges?
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Super ! I recall these things in the news and of course the Six Million dollar man series.
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The fellow who survived that crash was a Marine Corp. colonel who lost both legs, right arm, and right eye, that was the basis of Martin Caldin's book about Steven Austin.Β He received prosthetic limbs and a glass eye, as was re-certified to fly again later.Β Β
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BruceΒ Peterson suffered a fractured skull, broken teeth and a broken hand and had his forehead scraped off. He later lost sight in one eye due to infection. He did not lose any limbs in the crash.
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From what I've read in an article in Reader's Digest, his injuries were such that he lost both legs at the knees and his right arm at the elbow.
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Reader's Digest author was full of crap.Β www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrongβ¦
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I always wonder if many of the UFO sightings from that period were simply test vehicles like this being mistaken for aliens.
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I bet most of the UFO sightings are due to secret military aircraft.Β
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