1963年，M2-F1作为NASA首款载人升力体飞行器问世。它采用轻质结构，主要由钢管框架和胶合板蒙皮构成，外观独特，因此得到了“飞行浴缸”的绰号。与传统飞机不同，M2-F1没有机翼，其升力完全依赖于流线型水滴形机身，通过改变机身周围气流的方向来实现 ...

On May 10, 1967, a NASA research aircraft known as the wingless M2-F2 lifting body crashed on Rogers Dry Lakebed at the Dryden Flight Research Center in California. The test pilot, Bruce Peterson ...

The Crash of the Northrop M2-F2 Lifting Body and “rebuilding” of Steve Austin, the “Six Million Dollar Man”. If you’re my age you remember a great prime time TV show called “The Six ...

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In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, an M2-F2 aircraft is seen after it crash landed on Rogers Dry Lakebed at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California on May 10, 1967.

King, Joseph D. Huxman and Orion D. Billeter assist NASA research pilot Milt Thompson (on the ladder) into the cockpit of the M2-F2 lifting body research aircraft at the NASA Flight Research ...

M2-F2, M2-F3, HL-10, X-24A, and the X-24B). But the X-24A's design is the one NASA borrowed the most from when it came time to create the X-38. The rescue vehicle had to bring the entire crew ...

Peterson's M2-F2 after the crash. It was about the hardest landing you can have and survive. Forty-four years ago today, NASA test pilot Bruce Peterson unwittingly created the intro for 1970s ...

Former NASA test pilot Bruce Peterson, whose spectacular crash in an M2-F2 aircraft helped inspire the TV program “The Six Million Dollar Man” and became part of the show’s opening credits ...