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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: 1795
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: 1570
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. |
taneal1
Member Posts: 279
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 04-19-2026 06:33 PM
Anyone know what become of the full-scale X-20 mockup? It should be in the Dayton US Air Force Museum, but I don't think it is... Editor's note: Threads merged. |
taneal1
Member Posts: 279
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 04-19-2026 08:13 PM
The mockup seems to have vanished, so it is probably correct that is was broken up, but is everyone absolutely certain?...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. The X-20 Was an Air Force-NASA Joint Program, but the USAF was in charge of Operations. Major James W. Wood (a finalist in the Mercury astronaut selection) was the chief. As the chief of the program he would have made the first flight. Armstrong was to be the chief for NASA and been the first NASA pilot to fly X-20. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1570
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 04-20-2026 09:06 AM
President Kennedy gave an address at the dedication of the Aerospace Medical Division at Brooks AFB, San Antonio, Texas, on 21 Nov. 1963 — the last full day of his life. There was an X-20 mock-up behind him to his right. Not sure if this is the one as mentioned or more were built. |
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