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Lent by Langley Research Center
The Hypersonic skip-glide concept was designed to go outside the
atmosphere and enter back through it, rotating or skipping off the
boundary or edge of the atmosphere. By changing it's angle of attack
the vehicle could bank, causing it to climb, gliding until it would skip
off the atmosphere again. The Concept was wind tunnel tested in the
1960's, but never reached the flight test phase. This vehicle had the
highest lift to drag ratio at hypersonic speeds of the time.
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