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Northrop HL-10 - Experimental Lifting Body

By: Fantastic Plastic

Type: Scale Model

Product Line: Model Kits (1:48) (Fantastic Plastic)

37 pcs.


Product Info

Title
Northrop HL-10 - Experimental Lifting Body
Publisher
Sub-category
Publish Year
2019
Dimensions
9.75x7x2"
NKG Part #
2147917508
Type
Scale Model
Material
Resin

Description

The Northrop HL-10 was one of five experimental "lifting bodies" developed by NASA during the 1960s and early 1970s to determine the characteristics necessary for controlled, unpowered descent from orbit.

Developed at NASA's Flight Research Center -- later
Dryden Flight Research Center -- the HL-10 made its first flight on December 22, 1966 from Edwards Air Force Base in California. It made a total of 37 flights, 24 of them powered, before being retired in 1970. Lessons learned from the HL-10 and its sister lifting bodies were subsequently incorporated into the design for the American Space Shuttle.

Project engineer R. Dale Reed reportedly wanted to take the HL-10 into orbit aboard a modified Saturn V, a proposal Dr. Werner von Braun enthusiastically endorsed. However, NASA's post-Apollo budget-cutting made such a mission impossible.

This resin model kit does a wonderful job of recreating this odd piece of aviation history.

Miniatures are supplied unpainted and some assembly may be required.

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