It's not built for going to space, but Virgin Galactic's supersonic aircraft will come close. Still in development, it's designed to cruise at an altitude...
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Concept for a next generation air dominance. NGAD - FX - F/A-XX - STEALTH - GCAP - FCAS - SCAF - FSAC - GLOBAL COMBAT AIR PROGRAMME - FUTURE COMBAT AIR SYSTEM - UCAV - UAV - USAF - NAVY - DRONE
Industrial Design
Industrial Design
The U.S. is making a massive, strategic gamble that hasn't paid off in the past.
I used a student's nice sketch to show some ways to make the design look believable and generally have fun. Thanks to Corey Gooch for his excellent design sketch.
B-2 Spirit facts that will blow your mind! See interesting facts about the size, cost and specifications of one of the stealthiest bombers in the US Air Force, the Northrup Grumman B-2 Spirit.
A new single-stage-to-orbit, reusable launch vehicle will be powered with external propulsion, delivered from a ground-based phased array of microwave antennas.
Length: 82 meters; Top Speed: Mach 5.5 in atmosphere, Mach 25 in orbit; Launches: 200 per vehicel
Posts about spaceplane written by Paul Drye
What it was: A project by the French national space agency CNES (Centre national d'études spatiales) beginning as early as 1975—eventually expanding to an ESA-wide effort in November 1987—to produce a small spaceplane. Launched on the then-yet-to-be-developed Ariane 5, it would have given Europe an independent manned space capability sometime around the turn of the…
random retro space plane!!
Hi, the NAL designed in 1990 a hypersonic spaceplane,it was look like some USA hypersonic aircraft...
Yesterday, the ship and crew aiming to recover Europe’s unmanned IXV spacecraft in November had a practice run off the coast of Tuscany, Italy.
A two-stage-to-orbit rocket conducing stage separation. Fully reusable spaceplane design for the fictional Croatian space agency. Inspiration came from X-34 orbital sciences, X-37, Baikal booster and ISRO scramjet rocket. Most of the details are photobashed, few are my own.
