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80 CHAPTER 4 Fly Me to the Moon, 1960–1974 FIGURE 4-6. NASA test pilot Pete Knight poses with the legendary X-15A-2 hypersonic research aircraft in 1965. A variation of the gold NASA tail band appears on the vertical tail, and the NASA insignia on the nose is backed by a gold flash. (NASA ECN-1025) FIGUR E 4-7. Long before the Space Shuttle, NASA explored the flight behavior of advanced space vehicles known as lifting bodies. Here Milt Thompson, Chief Test Pilot of the NASA Flight Research Center, poses with a low-cost, unpowered test vehicle known as the M2-F1 in 1963. (NASA EC63-206)
CHAPTER 4 Fly Me to the Moon, 1960–1974 81 FIGURE 4-8. Rocket-powered lifting bodies were photographed at the Flight Research Center in 1972. Each carries the NASA insignia and gold tail band (L–R): The Air Force X-24A, the NASA M2-F2, and the NASA HL-10. (NASA EC69-2353) FIGURE 4-9. Low-speed research vehicles also carried the insignia. The insignia is displayed on the wing of the Boeing/ Vertol VZ-2 tilt-wing Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) research aircraft shown at Langley in 1960. (NASA GPN- 2000-001732)
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