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This photograph shows the Air Force C-141A that was used in the Eclipse project as a tow vehicle. The project used a QF-106 interceptor aircraft to simulate a future orbiter, which would be towed to a high altitude and released to fire its own engines and carry a payload into space.

This C-140 JetStar was flown by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from 1964 to 1989 in a variety of projects applicable to civilian aircraft. Built by Lockheed, the aircraft-NASA 814-was used in a laminar flow study to help develop methods of designing more efficient...

F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire (DFBW) The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire (DFBW) flight research project validated the principal concepts of all-electric flight control systems now used on nearly all modern high-performance aircraft and on military and civilian transports. It was the forerunner of current...

D-558-1 Skystreak Conceived in 1945, the D-558-1 Skystreak was designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, in conjunction with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The Skystreaks were turbojet powered aircraft that took off from the...

I thot of this about 15 yrs ago, but couldn't draw it properly, and know nothing about business. My idea to save millions on tires, is to build turbines into the wheels of planes, that would spin up to match landing speed, with no outside power....

Again I forgot to reset the program.