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Feb 28, 2014 · A fleet of lifting bodies flown at NASA’s Flight Research Center (now Armstrong Flight Research Center) in Edwards, California, from 1963 to l975 demonstrated the ability of pilots to maneuver and safely land a wingless vehicle.
- Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story
Wingless Flight tells the story of the most unusual flying...
- Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story
Wingless Flight tells the story of the most unusual flying machines ever flown, the lifting bodies. It is my story about my friends and colleagues who committed a significant part of their lives in the 1960s and 1970s to prove that the concept was a viable one for use in spacecraft of the future.
- R. Dale Reed, Darlene Lister
- 1997
A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with minimal or no conventional fuselage, a lifting body can be thought of as a fuselage with little or no conventional wing.
Depending on how strict you want to be, you might say that flying squirrels, flying frogs and flying lizards all count. But these are really only gliding or parachuting, and the various flaps of skin stretched between their legs, toes or ribs are also suspiciously similar to wings.
The NASA M2-F1 is a lightweight, unpowered prototype aircraft, developed to flight-test the wingless lifting body concept. Its unusual appearance earned it the nickname "flying bathtub" and was designated the M2-F1, the M referring to "manned", and F referring to "flight" version.
Vehicleflight #DatePilotDurationM2-F1 #0March 1, 1963Thompson-M2-F1 #1August 16, 1963Thompson0:02:00M2-F1 #2August 28, 1963Thompson0:02:09M2-F1 #3August 29, 1963Thompson0:02:25Nov 23, 2019 · Helicopters have wing-shaped rotors (or rotor blades or rotary wings) which revolve around a mast. The flying wing maximises cruise efficiency at subsonic speeds by eliminating non-lifting surfaces. A dynastat, a type of hybrid airship, has both fixed wings and a lifting body and excels at long-endurance flights.
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Wingless Flight tells the story of the most unusual flying machines ever flown, the lifting bodies. It is my story about my friends and colleagues who committed a significant part of their lives in the 1960s and 1970s to prove that the concept was a viable one for use in spacecraft of the future.
