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Topic: Where is the X-20 Dyna-Soar held or displayed?
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hotdog
Member Posts: 41
From: Chattanooga, TN
Registered: Dec 2011
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posted 03-04-2014 11:21 AM
   
Does anyone know where the X-20 Dyna-Soar is displayed? All I can find through Google searches are wind tunnel models and replicas. I'm looking for either the prototype or production model. Does Boeing have them locked up in a hangar somewhere? Seems like they belong in a museum. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 03-04-2014 12:18 PM
I don't think they ever actually built one. Boeing had a full sized mockup at one point but that got broken up once the contract got yanked.They never even got to a landing test article example. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 03-04-2014 05:10 PM
They just unveiled a replica at Neil Armstrong's alma mater, Purdue, in the hall named after him. A replica of the X-20 Dyna-Soar, an early 1960s space plane, is on permanent display in Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering. Although it never saw flight, the plane paved the way for future reusable spacecraft, including the U.S. space shuttle. Armstrong had been selected as the plane's first pilot-engineer, and before his death he endorsed the X-20's display in the building named in his honor. | |
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