 A Boeing X-43 being air launched from under the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress. Air Launching is the practice of dropping a parasite aircraft, rocket, or missile from a mothership. The parasite aircraft or missile is usually is tucked under the wing of the larger mothership and then "dropped" from underneath the wing while in flight. Usually the dropped craft/missile will then fire its own engines or rockets and propel away from the mothership. X-43A drops from the B-52 mothership File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
X-43A drops from the B-52 mothership File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
NASA technicians working on the X-43A at the tip of a Pegasus rocket attached to a Boeing B-52B prior to launch (March 27, 2004) The X-43 is an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft design with multiple planned scale variations meant to test different aspects of highly supersonic flight. ...
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An example of a parasite aircraft is the Boeing X-43 being dropped from under the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress. ...
A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ...
A missile (British English: miss-isle; U.S. English: missl) is, in general, a projectile—that is, something thrown or otherwise propelled. ...
A mothership is a vessel or aircraft that carries a smaller vessel or aircraft that operates independently from it. ...
Air launch is mainly used for rocket-powered craft, allowing them to conserve their fuel until lifted to altitude by a larger aircraft. The B-52 and B-29 have both served in the carrier role, most famously for the X-15 and X-1 respectively. Most recently, the B-52 was used to launch the X-43 hypersonic testbed aircraft, and the Scaled Composites White Knight carried SpaceShipOne to altitude before its suborbital flight. The Pegasus rocket is an air launched orbital spacecraft, flown from a Lockheed L-1011. B-52 can refer to the following: The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber aircraft A hairstyle popular in the 1950s and 1960s, named after the aircraft A rock band, The B-52s, named after the hairstyle A cocktail This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists...
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress (Boeing Model 341/345) was a four-engine heavy bomber flown by the United States Army Air Force. ...
Description Role: Research Aircraft Crew: one, pilot Dimensions Length: 50. ...
X1 may refer to: the Bell X-1, the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound the X-1 Submarine, the United States Navys only midget submarine the X1 spaceflight, the second Ansari X Prize flight, also known as SpaceShipOne flight 16P This is a disambiguation page — a...
NASA technicians working on the X-43A at the tip of a Pegasus rocket attached to a Boeing B-52B prior to launch (March 27, 2004) The X-43 is an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft design with multiple planned scale variations meant to test different aspects of highly supersonic flight. ...
SpaceShipOne and White Knight during a captive carry test flight The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight is a jet-powered carrier aircraft used to launch the SpaceShipOne experimental spacecraft. ...
SpaceShipOne is small, having a three-person cabin and short but wide wings. ...
Pegasus rocket on the ground Pegasus rocket attached to bottom of carrier aircraft The Pegasus rocket is a three stage, solid propellant, winged space booster developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC). ...
Orbital Sciences Stargazer Lockheed L-1011 aircraft which was modified in Cambridge, UK, by Marshall Aerospace The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the third widebody passenger jet airliner to reach the marketplace, following the Boeing 747 jumbo jet and the Douglas DC-10. ...
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