A few examples of models and mockups of different versions of the Dyna Soar:
A few years back I got to poke around a little bit in the NASM Garber facility. Lighting was not the best and some areas were photography-discouraged, but there were a few things that I got some photos of. One was a large model of an early Boeing Dyna Soar configuration. It may have originally been a wind tunnel model that was repurposed into a display model, or it may have been a display model from the get-go (kinda big, though).
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One of Boeings earliest Dyna Soar designs, the Model 814-1012, dating from about March, 1958. Terribly ’50′s in design, looks like a hood ornament. All angles and fins, including two ventral fins which would have had a hell of a time surviving re-entry. This image is made from two separate kinda blurry photos of presumably the same display model.
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Mockup and display model photos, circa 1960. Taken from a mockup review film.
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A photo of a Martin corp. display model showing an early Dyna Soar/Titan III configuration. The Titan III would lose the fins after testing showed that the thrust vectoring capability of the Titan III’s UA-1205 booster rockets was up to the task of countering pitch moments produced by the Dyna Soar.
Parts of this were originally posted HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.
That one should have been used as the basis of a hood ornament. It would have been cool. I think the 1956 Chevy hood ornament looks like a Convair NX-2.
The red-white-black mockups both full mockup and nose-capsule are not the Model 1012!
It is the Boeing response to the USAF March 24, 1958 RFP (Request for Proposals), letter to submit a proposal for RS464L Dyna Soar. Boeing’s response is this useless Buck Roger (Flash Gordon would be more like it what with the wierd and useless belly fins), Boeing Model 814-1010…it is the mockup!
Gee…how would I know that for crying out loud…I have the Proposal booklet on this initial Boeing submission.
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> The red-white-black mockups both full mockup and nose-capsule are not the Model 1012!
Never said they were.
Roger, my error…also looking at wrong images…the large model is not a 1012 either. It is more into the 814-upper 1000 series or more likely the 2000 sport car series..with curvacious fins, only Dyna Soar lovers could adore. You have a partial photo of the “pegboard” geneology of BAC DS gliders, do you have the full photo? A cool photo of the design as it progessed from 1010 on. You can match the large model photos with the pegboard geneaology and see it is one of their 1959 models.
My DS e-ring binders are at bottom of the boxes here, so the 1010 starts either at the top of the peg-board or bottom…probably at the top left. Twas a neat geneaology method…those models. Would wrap my grubby fingers around em and run like mad.
A wind tunnel model collector has a 5-6 foot long late DS glider with…gasp the transtage. I have sworn to easily get past his dog(s), cat, sleeping kids, and it is MINE…all MINE, HEH, HEH. It is an actual radar test model of metal an nicely done too.
Didja ever get your grubbies on the Boeing ICGM series? Why they simply did not expand it for a pilot I don’t figure…it was more a Dyna Soar than model 1010!
Ok…the racoons is funny…scary too, after midnight. Got em here in edge of Renton, including wabbits even…they go for the next door neighbor’s huge front yard now a veggie garden of delights!
What’s with your place that an army is headed ur way or is this another twist on mind-control? Like CIA’s Acoustic Kitty, but now deep into the animal brain too? Jeez, wot next!