Has anyone done a HL-10 Lifting body?
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feek61
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M2-F2 crash aftermath movie
I found some old color film of the rescue team pulling out the pilot from the M2-F2 crash. Here are the first responders. Bruce Peterson is still in the cockpit. You can see rescue personal talking to him through the wreckage. Luckily this was a glide flight so there was no fuel on board.
Here they have extracted him from the cockpit and put him on a strecther:
Here you see the rescue helicopter waiting, ready for transport:
Here is Bruce P. being carried past the crashed M2-F2 on a stretcher to the waiting helicopter:
This of course is just before the crash:
In an interview back in the 1990's Bruce Peterson says the last thing he remembered was all of the nose glass hitting him. Then he blacked out.
I found some old color film of the rescue team pulling out the pilot from the M2-F2 crash. Here are the first responders. Bruce Peterson is still in the cockpit. You can see rescue personal talking to him through the wreckage. Luckily this was a glide flight so there was no fuel on board.
Here they have extracted him from the cockpit and put him on a strecther:
Here you see the rescue helicopter waiting, ready for transport:
Here is Bruce P. being carried past the crashed M2-F2 on a stretcher to the waiting helicopter:
This of course is just before the crash:
In an interview back in the 1990's Bruce Peterson says the last thing he remembered was all of the nose glass hitting him. Then he blacked out.
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OhioAstromech
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Ok,
This thread has been dead long enough.
If we can't find any more lifting bodies how about some cool dry lake bed photos?
Like this one:
This thread has been dead long enough.
If we can't find any more lifting bodies how about some cool dry lake bed photos?
Like this one:
feek61
Sr Member
Nice! I think that photo was taken after the breaks caught fire. There is some great film footage of the Hustler going down the lake bed with giant flames coming from under it. Looked like the bottom of the entire plane was engulfed. Great photo. I guess I'm going to have to make my own HL-10 (again) 
Will
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OhioAstromech
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Nice! I think that photo was taken after the breaks caught fire. There is some great film footage of the Hustler going down the lake bed with giant flames coming from under it. Looked like the bottom of the entire plane was engulfed. Great photo. I guess I'm going to have to make my own HL-10 (again)
Will
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Scot
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Hey folks, I've been lurking on this forum on and off for a few years and got the opportunity to sign up last week. I've mostly been looking at the scifi studio-scale stuff, but this thread caught my eye. If anyone is interested in reference photography of the SV-5J (Martin-Marietta's jet-powered X-24A variation that never flew; supposedly the dimensions are the same as the original X-24A, AKA SV-5P, save for the jet intake on the bottom), Martin-Marietta donated one to the Air Force Academy in 1980. The other SV-5J was converted to look like an SV-5P and lives at Wright-Pat.
I'm on exchange at West Point this semester, but I'd be happy to take some photos when I return to Air Force in January. I seriously walk by the thing every day on the way to the Aeronautics Lab. Direct measurement with a tape measure would be difficult as it's mounted about ten feet off the ground, but some trig should solve that. Or I could try rigging up something with laser pointers.
I'm on exchange at West Point this semester, but I'd be happy to take some photos when I return to Air Force in January. I seriously walk by the thing every day on the way to the Aeronautics Lab. Direct measurement with a tape measure would be difficult as it's mounted about ten feet off the ground, but some trig should solve that. Or I could try rigging up something with laser pointers.
That would be cool! We still are convinced Feek has one sitting in garage!
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JMChladek
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Does anyone else hear music and the opening dialog to Six Million Dollar Man when they see images of the M2-F2 and HL-10? I know I do.
"I've had a blow out, damper 3... pitch is out I can't hold it, she's breaking up, she's breaking up...." CRASH (and I know Bruce was not entirely keen that his crash could be seen on network television almost every week in the mid 1970s!)
As for the X-38, The second test ship built, V132, is now on display at the Strategic Air and Space Museum near Ashland, NE. She's a little dusty, but I know she has a good home now (don't worry, the stickers on her have been removed and she will eventually get repainted in her original markings).
BTW, figure THIS one out.
"I've had a blow out, damper 3... pitch is out I can't hold it, she's breaking up, she's breaking up...." CRASH (and I know Bruce was not entirely keen that his crash could be seen on network television almost every week in the mid 1970s!)
As for the X-38, The second test ship built, V132, is now on display at the Strategic Air and Space Museum near Ashland, NE. She's a little dusty, but I know she has a good home now (don't worry, the stickers on her have been removed and she will eventually get repainted in her original markings).
BTW, figure THIS one out.
JMChladek
Sr Member
Since 2010 is the planned last year for shuttle operations, I figured I might as well go back to the origins of the design as the lifting body research was done to help with shuttle design. Even though the orbiters have wings, they also utilized some of the lifting body concepts as well (such as the body flap under the main engines).
So after checking over the cool photos in this thread, it has inspired me to pull my unbuilt Eagles Talon/Wings 72 Lifting body kits out of storage to build (both the HL-10 and the M2-F2). So last night I went ahead and started on the M2-F2/F3 as it is a little easier to do then the HL-10. My kits were the original vac versions only, but an email to Don's Model Works revealed that I could still buy the resin bits they made to augment the kits. So I have some of the resin bits coming along with the X-24A/B set (I figured Vaccuform was a better option then the Mach 2 kits).
I'll also need to get my hands on the Muroc Models M2-F1 and the X-38 to complete the series. Plus a 1/72 space shuttle model done up as OV-101Enterprise from her drop flights would also be nice to add to the collection.
I'll start up a new thread to document this when I get far enough along to show something for it.
So after checking over the cool photos in this thread, it has inspired me to pull my unbuilt Eagles Talon/Wings 72 Lifting body kits out of storage to build (both the HL-10 and the M2-F2). So last night I went ahead and started on the M2-F2/F3 as it is a little easier to do then the HL-10. My kits were the original vac versions only, but an email to Don's Model Works revealed that I could still buy the resin bits they made to augment the kits. So I have some of the resin bits coming along with the X-24A/B set (I figured Vaccuform was a better option then the Mach 2 kits).
I'll also need to get my hands on the Muroc Models M2-F1 and the X-38 to complete the series. Plus a 1/72 space shuttle model done up as OV-101Enterprise from her drop flights would also be nice to add to the collection.
I'll start up a new thread to document this when I get far enough along to show something for it.
slave1pilot
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Just found this thread today.
I was at Dryden last week. The M2-F1 is still there in an outbuilding.
I took a pic of the model of the Space shuttle used in Spacecamp, but the M2 is in the background. I only had my Cell phone and wasn't prepared to see what i saw
had I known about this thread, i would have brought a real camera and taken more pics for you guys. Sorry
my cell pic;
BTW- the B52 is still at Dryden, it's parked outside next to the North gate of Edwards.
Again, sorry I didn't take pics cuz I didn't know
On a side note, my dad was a B-52 (as well as SR-71) mechanic while he was in the Air Force. After he retired, we worked on the B1 and B2 programs.
I was at Dryden last week. The M2-F1 is still there in an outbuilding.
I took a pic of the model of the Space shuttle used in Spacecamp, but the M2 is in the background. I only had my Cell phone and wasn't prepared to see what i saw
had I known about this thread, i would have brought a real camera and taken more pics for you guys. Sorry
my cell pic;
BTW- the B52 is still at Dryden, it's parked outside next to the North gate of Edwards.
Again, sorry I didn't take pics cuz I didn't know
On a side note, my dad was a B-52 (as well as SR-71) mechanic while he was in the Air Force. After he retired, we worked on the B1 and B2 programs.
JMChladek
Sr Member
Nice images and nice to see this thread back up and running. Good to see the ole M2-F1 is still in good shape. Love that plane.
With Six Million Dollar Man now out on region 1 DVD, I am pondering picking it up, but it is NOT cheap by a long shot. Still, with the cockpit footage and up close imagery they did of the HL-10, it would make a nice reference.
I got stalled on my lifting bodies a long time ago, but I still may do them in this, the final year of shuttle ops. In the mean time, I've acquired the bits to do one of the ARPS NF-104 astronaut trainer jets (i.e. a Starfighter with RCS nozzles and a rocket in the tail) in 1/48 scale using the Hasegawa kit. I don't plan to do it as the one Yeager crashed though since everyone does that jet.
BTW Slave1Pilot, you might appreciate these pics than seeing as how your dad worked on the Blackbird:
It is a Hasegawa SR-71 done up as the last SR-71A to fly for NASA and it includes the brackets on top for the LASRE (Linear Aerospike engine test bed) experiment pod. I had some help from Tony Landis at NASA Dryden to get me some pictures of the brackets. I finished it back in 2008.
More images can be found here:
Lockheed Blackbirds pictures by JMChladek - Photobucket
slave1pilot
Sr Member
That is very nicely done.
i remember the Blackbird from when i was a kid in the 70's
he was stationed at Beale at the time
Now I live in lancaster right next to Edwards/Dryden
BTW- have you guys seen these at bananahobby?
BananaHobby - 6 CH 2.4GHz BlitzRCWorks BZ-71 V2 High Speed Radio Control Jet RTF
i remember the Blackbird from when i was a kid in the 70's
he was stationed at Beale at the time
Now I live in lancaster right next to Edwards/Dryden
BTW- have you guys seen these at bananahobby?
BananaHobby - 6 CH 2.4GHz BlitzRCWorks BZ-71 V2 High Speed Radio Control Jet RTF
Commander Max
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Great thread guys, Feek I really appreciate the pics. I love looking back at the cowboy days of aerospace.
I can't help but wonder what these birds spawned in the black world.
It's too bad most of us will never see those toys, but I'll bet there is stuff flying out there that would top any sci-fi ship ever conceived.
One of my personal favorites(but just a little off topic).
I can't help but wonder what these birds spawned in the black world.
It's too bad most of us will never see those toys, but I'll bet there is stuff flying out there that would top any sci-fi ship ever conceived.
One of my personal favorites(but just a little off topic).
SmilingOtter
Master Member
B-70 Valkyrie. Very nice. Saw one at Wright Patterson a number of years ago. Made quite an impression.
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