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Aviation-NASA aircrafts-Prototypes (1538 images)
Title : X-4 Disassembled ''O'' Ring with Flight Crew
Caption :
As shown in this photograph the X-4's design allowed it to be broken in two, aft of the engines, for servicing and instrumentation work. The X-4 Bantam, a single-place, low swept-wing, semi-tailless aircraft was designed and built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. It had no horizontal tail surfaces and its mission was to obtain in-flight data on the stability and control of semi-tailless aircraft at high subsonic speeds.
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