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Bell BoMi MX-2276 (1954) |
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In the years following WWII,
Bell Aviation hired former German rocket engineers Walter Dornberger and
Kraft Ehrike to work on long-range spacecraft concepts for both military and
civilian purposes. One of these was the BoMi (Bomber Missile), a
"boost-glide" concept not unlike the "Silverbird"
posited 15 years earlier by Eugene Sanger. The first stab at the BoMi
concept was dubbed the MX-2276. It was a three-stage system composed
of a horizontally launched piloted first stage, a disposable second stage,
and a piloted third stage designed to "skip" over the upper atmosphere
before dropping its payload on an enemy target and then returning to Earth. The precursor to the X-20 Dyna-Soar, the MX-2276 concept was ultimately scrapped as too complex and replaced by a winged orbiter to be launched atop a conventional booster. |
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