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To be launched by either a modified B-52 aircraft or a Titan III-C ballistic missile, the X-24C was designed to reach speeds of up to Mach 8 and cruise at Mach 6 for 40 seconds. Approximately $200 million was appropriated for development of two X-24C prototypes.
The Martin Marietta X-24 is an American experimental aircraft developed from a joint United States Air Force-NASA program named PILOT (1963–1975). It was designed and built to test lifting body concepts, experimenting with the concept of unpowered reentry and landing, later used by the Space Shuttle . [ 1 ]
The X-24C, begun as a NASA/USAF design study in 1974, was slated to be a Mach 8 “lifting body” follow-on to the wildly-successful-but-closed-out (1969) X-15 program.
CHAD SLATTERY. AVIATION & AEROSPACE. PHOTOGRAPHY. Lockheed X-24C made by the Skunk Works model shop and restored by Tony Landis.
29 lip 2009 · The McDonnell Douglas X-24C Flight Test Plan called for one test article, developed and flown over a 25 month period, with a 3 month flight test schedule. The X-24C was officially cancelled in September of 1977, however, if it was instead authorized and continued development the vehicle could have been flown by the second quarter of 1980.
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.
8 lis 2023 · The Lockheed Skunk Works X-24C, internally designated the L-301, was developed by the NASA/United States Air Force organization National Hypersonic Flight Research Facility (NHFRF) as a scramjet-powered follow up to the North American X-15 and Martin Marietta X-24B and would be capable of Mach 6-8.
