The Martin Marietta X-24 is an American experimental aircraft developed from a joint United States Air Force - NASA program named PILOT (1963–1975). It was designed and built to test lifting body concepts, experimenting with the concept of unpowered reentry and landing, later used by the Space Shuttle. [1] .

Gentry’s landing of Martin Marietta’s extraordinary X-24A “lift body” plane had proven what many scientists had thought impossible: that a wingless aircraft could descend from the upper atmosphere and glide safely back to Earth. The grandfather of …

Lockheed L-301 (sometimes called the X-24C, though this designation was never officially assigned) was an experimental air-breathing hypersonic aircraft project. It was developed by the NASA and United States Air Force (USAF) organization National Hypersonic Flight Research Facility [1] (NHFRF or NHRF [2]), with Skunk Works as the prime contractor.

The X-24B aircraft showed that a “lifting body” could glide through the atmosphere and make a precise landing on a runway like an airplane. A lifting body is a fixed-wing air or spacecraft in which the body itself produces lift. X-24 studies supported …

2023年11月30日 · The Lockheed X-24C was a hypersonic research aircraft that aimed to combine rocket and scramjet propulsion but was ultimately canceled due to budget priorities. The X-24C was inspired by the X-15 rocket plane and the X-24B lifting body rocket plane, both of which also influenced the design of the Space Shuttle.

2025年1月13日 · In the 1930s, the quest for more powerful engines led Rolls-Royce to create one of the boldest experimental aircraft engines ever: the 24-cylinder Vulture. Despite its cutting-edge X-configuration...

2016年2月7日 · The X-24B was a joint program between NASA, the U. S. Air Force and Martin Aircraft Company. The aircraft flew 36 times between 1973 and 1975. The X-24B was the last of the lifting body aircraft to fly and demonstrated that accurate unpowered reentry vehicle landings were operationally feasible.

Only a single X-24A was manufactured, but two extremely similar jet-powered SV-5Js were also built. The SV-5Js were to be powered by a single J60 turbojet engine and used as trainers to introduce pilots to the low-speed handling characteristics of lifting-bodies, but in the end neither aircraft ever flew.

The Martin Marietta X-24B was an experimental US aircraft developed from a joint USAF -NASA program named PILOT (1963–1975). It was designed and built to test lifting body concepts, experimenting with the concept of unpowered reentry and landing, later used by …

2022年1月15日 · Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the X-24C been successful in testing, America would likely have leveraged scramjet technology in more platforms. Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of...