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	M2 F2
		M2 F program was launched in 1963 with the M2 F1 it was substantially a wooden glide.
		The M2 F configuration was the worst among all the designs took in account by NASA.
		M2 F2 The M2 F2 belongs to the wide family of so called �lifting bodies� wingless aircrafts able to generate lift through and appropriate design of their fuselage.
	www.marscenter.it /eng/veicolinavettem2f2.htm

	Martin-Marietta X-24 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The X-24A was the fourth lifting body design to fly, it followed the NASA M2-F1 in 1964, the
		NASA History Series SP-4220 1997 PDF ( http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19980169231_1998082126.pdf)
		The X-24B is on public display at the Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/X-24

	NASA, Air Force Lifting Bodies
		Based on the ideas and basic design of Alfred J. Eggers and others at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (now the Ames Research Center), Mountain View, California, in the mid-1950's, the M2-F1 was built in 1962-63 over a four-month period for a cost of only about $30,000, plus an additional $8,000-$10,000 for an ejection seat.
		Northrop Corporation built the HL-10 and M2-F2, the first two of the fleet of "heavy" lifting bodies flown by the NASA Flight Research Center.
		The HL-10 was one of five heavyweight lifting-body designs flown at NASA's Flight Research Center (FRC--later Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, from July 1966 to November 1975 to study and validate the concept of safely maneuvering and landing a low lift-over-drag vehicle designed for reentry from space.
	area51specialprojects.com /lifting_bodies.html

	The Ejection Site: NASA Ejection Seats: Lifting Bodies M2-F1, M2-F2
		NASA Ejection Seats: Lifting Bodies M2-F1, M2-F2 One of the more unique flight concepts tested by NASA was the Lifting Body concept.
		The Ejection Site: NASA Ejection Seats: Lifting Bodies M2-F1, M2-F2 The Ejection Site
		The M2F1 and M2F2 seats on this page were designed and built by Weber Aircraft
	www.ejectionsite.com /lifting.htm

	M-2 (lifting body)
		NASA's homebuilt M2-F1 lifting body, left, and the Northrop M2-F2 A series of experimental lifting bodies tested by NASA in the pre-Shuttle era.
		After 16 flights, the M2-F2 was involved in a crash, on May 10, 1967, from which NASA test pilot Bruce Peterson was lucky to escape with his life.
		This dramatic accident has been replayed many times on television as the opening sequence to The Six Million Dollar Man. The vehicle was repaired in the wake of the crash, a center tail fin added to improve stability, and the modified craft, renamed the M2-F3, used to carry out a further 27 flights in 1967-72.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/M-2.html

	NASA Dryden M2-F1 Photo Collection
		In the meantime, other NASA engineers devised a special M2-F1 flight simulator, and a hot rod shop in Los Angeles souped-up a Pontiac Bonneville convertible to be used as the lifting body ground-tow vehicle.
		More than 400 ground tows and over 100 aircraft tow flights were carried out with the M2-F1.
		NASA craftsmen and engineers built the tubular steel interior frame.
	www.dfrc.nasa.gov /gallery/photo/M2-F1/index.html

	Chuck Yeager With M2-F2 Lifting Body 8x10 Photograph
		NASA eventually took over the US quest for space, however Yeager's school contributed 38 graduates to NASA's corps of astronauts.
	www.mach1collectibles.com /chuck_yeager_with_m2_f2_lifting_body_8x10_photograph.html

	Space Shuttle Annotated Bibliography, CH2
		There is also a commentary on the 1968 discussion of George Mueller, NASA's Manned Space Flight head, before the British Interplanetary Society about NASA's plans for a Space Shuttle.
		Plattner, C.M. "NASA to Begin Unmanned Tests of New Type of Lifting Shape for Hypersonic Maneuvers." Aviation Week & Space Technology.
		Some were completed by Air Force historians as internal publications, while others were done in NASA.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/Shuttlebib/ch2.html

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		Yeager flies NASA's M2-F1 The Birth of Wingless Flight
		The M2-F1 is on display at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, California.
		NASA had earlier been investigating the problems associated with re-entry of missile nose cones.
	members.lycos.co.uk /derekhorne/m2f1.html

	Goleta Air and Space Museum: Edwards AFB Airshow, Saturday, October 3, 1998, Page 1, Static Displays
		The plywood sheathed M2-F1 Flying Bathtub was the first of NASA's lifting body research aircraft.
		It used the pressurization compressor from a Boeing 707 to suck the boundary layer of air into the leading edge glove on the left wing.
		Its army air corps serial was 44-23314, which it still wears on its tail.
	www.air-and-space.com /edw98a.htm

	Review of Wingless Flight
		It is also gives us a glimpse of the "other NASA" — the one with the engineers and innovators.
		Besides tapping into the volunteer spirit present in the 1960s at the NASA Flight Research Center, the unofficial lifting body program also used creative methods to locate funds.
		It began when an enthusiastic engineer drew together a band of engineers, technicians and pilots—all volunteers, of course—and then moved ahead, bypassing the ponderous amount of paperwork and delays of months or even years typically involved in officially initiating approved and funded aerospace programs in that era.
	www.chris-winter.com /SpaceVis/RD_Reed/Wingless.html

	Space Transport - Lifting Body aerodynamics and technology
		The first fruit of the initial studies was the M2.
		It was tested by towing it behind a car, and later by an aeroplane ( R4D / C-47) to allow free fall flights from 12,000 ft. Max speeds reached were 100 to 120 mph.
		The scientists originally wanted a shape that could survive the atmospheric reentry more easily.
	www.geocities.com /spacetransport/liftingbody.html

	Review of Wingless Flight
		S/B "While a few people at NASA Headquarters were aware of the lifting-body project, until a few weeks after the historic first flight of the M2-F1 in mid-August they did not pay much attention to it, mainly because we hadn't requested any money for the program."
		"While a few people at NASA Headquarters were aware of the lifting-body project until a few weeks after the historic first flight of the M2-F1 in mid-August, they did pay much attention to it, mainly because we hadn't requested any money for the program."
		"In retaliation, Gentry and his Air Force cronies sliped over to NASA one early morning to paste a large Air Force sign on the side of the HL-10, which originally had no markings indicating Air Force involvement in the program."
	www.chris-winter.com /SpaceVis/RD_Reed/RDR1_Errata.html

	M2-F3
		02 June 1970 M2 Flight 17 Program: NASA Lifting Body.
		21 July 1970 M2 Flight 18 Program: NASA Lifting Body.
		24 September 1971 M2 Flight 26 Program: NASA Lifting Body.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/m2f3.htm

	:: NASA Quest > Destination Tomorrow Script
		THIS PROGRAM WILL UNCOVER HOW PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE RESEARCH IS CREATING TODAY'S KNOWLEDGE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AND SOLVE THE CHALLENGES OF NASA GLENN HAS BEEN CONDUCTING MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS SINCE THE 1960s IN DROP TOWERS LIKE THIS.
		THERE WAS VERY LITTLE CONFIDENCE AMONG NASA HEADQUARTERS' PLANNERS OF SPACECRAFT MISSIONS IN I'M STEELE McGONEGAL.
		Captioning provided by the Office of Education, NASA Langley Research Center.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /events/destination/2001/DEST3.html

	Aerospace Walk of Honor - HONOREES 2003
		Peterson was the first NASA pilot to graduate from the USAF Test Pilot School, class62-C. In 1963 he M2-F1 Lifting Body, his first of 47 lifting body flights.
		He flew the M2-F1 forty-two times, and made the first flight of the HL-10 on December 22, 1966.
		Bruce A. Peterson, a NASA Dryden Research Pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in the 1960s, was a pioneer in the testing of lifting bodies.
	www.awoh.org /hon2003_peterson.htm

	Edwards Air Force Base - M2-F1
		While Yeager was commanding the Aerospace Research Pilot School (now the Air ForceTest Pilot School) a handful of NASA engineers were developing the first model of a radical new concept: a totally wingless aircraft that could generate lift by the shape of its fuselage alone.
		If successful, it would mean that the new spacecraft under development would no longer have to parachute into the ocean, but land on conventional runways instead.
	www.edwards.af.mil /gallery/yeager/docs_html/M2-F1.html

	Dryden Technical Reports Server
		Technical Report NASA/TP-2002-209032, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
		Technical Report NASA/TM-2001-210390, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
		Whitmore, Stephen A. and Sprague, Stephanie and Naughton, Jonathan W. (2001) Wind-Tunnel Investigations of Blunt-Body Drag Reduction Using Forebody Surface Roughness.
	dtrs.dfrc.nasa.gov /view/subjects/m2-f1.html

	GPN-2000-000082 - M2-F1 Pilots
		The M2-F1 lifting body aircraft rests on the sun-baked floor of a dry lake bed located out in the Mojave Desert at the Dryden Flight Research Center, California.
		Pilot Chuck Yeager, seated in the cockpit of the M2- F1, talks with fellow pilots from left to right Milt Thompson, Don Malick and Bruce Peterson.
		The vehicle later suffered a mishap when Peterson was landing it--the oil in the landing gear hydraulics was not suitable for cold temperatures and caused the gear to break and the vehicle to suffer minor damage.
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000082.html

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		The HL-10 was one of five lifting body designs flown at NASA's Dryden
		The HL-10 was delivered to NASA in Jan. 1966.
		Analysis and Planning at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
	www.svavia.ru /fido/549.html

	Northrop M2-F2 Lifting body
		With the success of M2-F1 program, NASA signed contract to Northrop to build the M2-F2.
		Engineers conceived the lifting body idea that by modifying a cone shape, aerodynamic lift could be produced to fly back from space rather than plunge to the earth.
		This configuration allowed lifting body to be landing on a runway rather than parachuting into the ocean.
	www.anigrand.com /AA2015m2-f2.html

	GPN-2000-000097 - M2-F1 in Tow
		Milt Thompson C-47 M2-F1 Lifting Body NASA Flight Research Center
		The absence of wings would make the extreme heat of re-entry less damaging to the vehicle.
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000097.html

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	recomb04.sdsc.edu /cgi-admin/posterabstracts.cgi

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	University of Tasmania Research Report
		Arneaud J, 'Why not M2 in Electrical Power E2?', IEEE 1st International Conference on Multi Media in Engineering Education, Melbourne, Australia, (1994).
		It is important that the theoretical aspects be developed alongside the more practical use of the equipment, so that a better understanding of this non-destructive technique can be obtained.
		Banks RJ, Squires LS, The G, 'Comparison of Adaptive Predictive Control and Adaptive Pole-Zero Placement Control for Fluid Level Control in a Column', IASTED Int.
	www.research.utas.edu.au /reports/1994/rr1994.htm

	Northrop M2-F2 Lifting body
		In 1962, NASA built the first lifting prototype, the unpowered M2-F1.
		With the success of M2-F1 program, NASA signed contract to Northrop to build the M2-F2.
		Northrop disassembled the M2-F2 and repaired to service as the M2-F3.
	www.anigrand.com /AA2015m2-f2.html

	M-2 (lifting body)
		NASA's homebuilt M2-F1 lifting body, left, and the Northrop M2-F2 A series of experimental lifting bodies tested by NASA in the pre-Shuttle era.
		From 1966 to 1975, following the cancellation of the Dyna-Soar project, NASA built and tested three different lifting body designs: the M-2, HL-10 and X-24.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/M-2.html

	World Netcams aircraft3d
		The success of Dryden's M2-F1 program led to NASA's development and construction of two heavyweight lifting bodies based on studies at NASA's Ames and Langley research centers -- the M2-F2 and the HL-10, both built by the Northrop Corporation.
		The M2-F2 Lifting Body returns from a research flight at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, with an F-104 flying chase.
	www.worldnetcams.com /ac/aircraft3d.htm

	M-2 (lifting body)
		NASA's homebuilt M2-F1 lifting body, left, and the Northrop M2-F2 A series of experimental lifting bodies tested by NASA in the pre-Shuttle era.
		From 1966 to 1975, following the cancellation of the Dyna-Soar project, NASA built and tested three different lifting body designs: the M-2, HL-10 and X-24.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/M-2.html

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