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Lockheed Space Taxi
Category: Lockheed
Origin of The SST
- Lockheed’s L-2000 SST design, loser in the competition with Boeing for US/SST contract, was result of decade of tunnel testing, incorporating best features of fixed wing double-delta concept proved out in SR-71. Lockheed’s philosophy was simplicity in design for better safety and economy.
- How to build an SST! Brilliant Lockheed designer Clarence L. (Kelly) Johnson, who created such successful planes as the U-2, SR-71, F-104 and the Constellation, amused fellow aircrafters with satirical drawing portraying design problems encountered with the SST.
The SST: Here it comes, ready or not
by Don Dwiggins
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968
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Ready Or Not!
A Lockheed artist’s impression of a novel method of taking a unique and untried method of orbital delivery and making it even more unique and more untried. As my wife said to me in the giftshop of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, “Baby, I’ll take the car and see you up there!”
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Supersonic Transport
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Image source: SDASM Archives
Lockheed SST Concepts
Cannonball Express
LS-2000
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Nuclear-Thermionic-Ionic Propulsion
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Missiles and Rockets, August 22, 1960
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Images: Numbers Station, Internet Archive
Boeing Art Department
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Lockheed STAR Clipper
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Image source: SDASM Archives
STAR Clipper
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Image source: SDASM Archives
Shuttle/Agena Study
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File source: NASA NTRS
