Meet The Planes Without Wings! NASA Lifting Bodies #shorts

Credit: NASA

Can a plane fly without wings? Well the simple answer is No, but all you need to know here is that there were such aircrafts that were able to fly without wings! They were called the lifting body aircrafts. These planes use to generate lift through their bodies, and not wings. The shape of fuselage was sufficient enough to generate lift without recourse to wings. The M2F1 was the first in series of wingless aircrafts based around this concept, and first flew on August 16 1963. The M here stands for Manned, and F for Flight. The M2-F1 was made up of playwood, had an internal framework of steel tubes looked like a bathtub sitting on a tricycle and had no wings. Its unusual appearance earned it the nickname "flying bathtub," and it was intended to be used as an alternative for capsule spacecraft. The success of M2F1 paved the way for M2F2, M2F3, HL-10 and Martin Marietta X-24. The most of these planes were not able to maintain level flight, and provided lift made them controllable enough to safely land. Lifting bodies were eventually cancelled in favour of delta wing design for space shuttles.

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[urbanduo]

More like a baby airplane that literally hatched from a commercial jet.

[TaGF_Tomcat]

Can a plane fly with no wings
“no it can’t. Anyway here’s videos and examples of planes flying without wings”

[brianhiles]

_“Give me an engine powerful enough, and I will make an ironing board fly.“_ - Clarence “Kelly“ Johnson, lead Lockheed engineer

[farhanatashiga]

Reminds me of the experimental jet that took off pointing straight up

[Sator]

“With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine” - RFC1925

[MartinTheGhost]

Fun fact: SNC (a private space company) is currently set to launch a lifting body spaceplane to the ISS next year. It's called the dream chaser and is heavily based off the canceled HL-20 project.

[Eis_]

English Electric Lightning: "These wings are just there so that the navigation lights can be apart."

[simonabunker]

The shuttle had wings because the military wanted a capability that required them (and then never used it for that mission).

[richardike]

From around 66 to 76, the Military conducted lifting-body experiments.

[Aminuts]

My dad was an engineer on this project.

[chadwilliams]

My father worked on these projects in the 60’s.

[troy]

That’s not flying. That’s FALLING with STYLE.

[hairybustard]

That’s what the bionic man Steve Austin crashed so he could get his bionic legs arm and eye.
They built him better stronger faster


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[JacobLozano-mrll]

This guy: “Can planes fly without wings? No!”
That one F-15: Lol ok

[theNuclearNixons]

More like a craft designed for a controlled fall rather than "lifting."

[jamesfrost]

Some of these were test designs FOR the Space Shuttle. The beginning of the 1970's tv series called, 'The Six Million Dollar Man' shows one of these crashing. Hince the idea for the series.
The person given credit for the basic design is because of a Bath Tub!!! Story has it, He was driving with a bath tub on a trailer or truck? The tub lifted off the trailer/truck and that visual gave him direction on the first steps of the final design.

[-jeff-]

Anyone old enough to remember a show called "The 6 Million Dollar Man" will remember the real crash footage of one of these that was part of the show's intro.

[DredgeX]

Why do these look so freaking adorable?

[polishonion]

Reminds me of those cars from the 50s with those points sticking out at the back

[justicewokeisutterbs]

The 50's and 60's were a great time for aeronautics, it seems.