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30 maj 2021 · The Lockheed L-301, also called the X-24C, though this designation was never officially assigned, was an experimental hypersonic aircraft project. As the North American Aviation X-15 program wound down in the mid-1960s, NASA and the USAF considered follow-on hypersonic test aircraft.
18 lis 2023 · The decision was made to equip this new “L-301” program’s aircraft, unofficially dubbed the X-24C, with a new LR-105 rocket engine found at the time in the Atlas series of rockets.
Summary and Key Points: The Lockheed X-24C, an ambitious hypersonic aircraft project from the late 1970s, was canceled due to budget constraints, leaving its potential unfulfilled.
9 cze 2024 · Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Air Force and NASA's X-24C program in the 1970s aimed to achieve hypersonic flight using scramjet technology, with speeds over MACH 5.
Gentry’s landing of Martin Marietta’s extraordinary X-24A “lift body” plane had proven what many scientists had thought impossible: that a wingless aircraft could descend from the upper atmosphere and glide safely back to Earth.
Summary: The Lockheed L-301, or X-24C, represents a captivating chapter in aviation history that exemplifies the ambition and technological foresight but also the fiscal constraints of aerospace innovation. Envisioned as an experimental air-breathing hypersonic aircraft, the X-24C was poised to...
The Lockheed X-24C was a 1970s attempt to bring hypersonic speeds – or speeds above Mach 5 – to the United States Air Force via a rocket plus scramjet combo.
