Concept Art Saturday?

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 03/01/2014 at 08:22 • Filed to: Spacelopnik

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Here is a Rockwell design proposal for a small, reusable launch vehicle and it's modified 747 first stage. Note the V tail on the 747.

Up-ship.com, thespacereview.com

Dirty Harry Callahan > f86sabre 03/01/2014 at 08:30

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So that's where the current crop of F1 noses came from!

Pitchblende > f86sabre 03/01/2014 at 08:53

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I must get this giant sweet potato into orbit!

FasTbird232 > f86sabre 03/01/2014 at 08:59

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The perspective makes it look like they took a wing from a Skyfleet X570.

Team6.1 > FasTbird232 03/01/2014 at 09:09

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The engines/wings definitely don't match

coqui70 > f86sabre 03/01/2014 at 09:28

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And in a giant step backward we launch the X37B atop a rocket ... *sigh* the Star Trek future gets farther away every day ...

FasTbird232 > Team6.1 03/01/2014 at 09:52

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The outboard engine looks pretty borked.

user314 > f86sabre 03/01/2014 at 15:02

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Some NAA concept art from the XB-70 program:

Yes, they though (however seriously is lost to history) about launching an X-15 derivative off of a Valkyrie.