Ram jet thrust pipes [see below]
Stabilizers
Engine housing [see below]
Cooling fins
Atomic pile in sandwich shielding
Rocket propellant and pumps
Rear pitch-and-yaw jets centered in air intakes [at high speed
and in thin air normal control surfaces are inoperative]
and in thin air normal control surfaces are inoperative]
Turbojet fuel tanks
Central services duct
Folding wing slot of girder section
gives great strength to fuselage
gives great strength to fuselage
Centrally placed VTOL rocket with fuel
Folding wing, contains landing leg
Auxiliary motors and batteries
Braced wing hinge member and
hydraulic ram controlling wing
angle
hydraulic ram controlling wing
angle
Life support systems, including oxygen
bottles and air recycling equipment
bottles and air recycling equipment
Pressure bulkhead
Air recycle main duct
Motor-driven circular plate in bulkhead, supporting pilot seat
Entry/exit hatch with folding ladder
for use when landed horizontally
for use when landed horizontally
Pilot area [see below]
Refrigerated hull
Instrument and check computers
Retractable destructor cannon [normally used
for demolition of dangerous wreckage, &c.]
for demolition of dangerous wreckage, &c.]
Forward pitch-and-yaw jets
Probes and sensors inside shockwave heat cone
Control panel, all systems are automated where possible
to simplify the pilot's tremendous task at high velocity;
the system's check lights are at the top, at centre the
multipurpose TV screen on which can be projected route
maps, touch- down viewing and normal communication
to simplify the pilot's tremendous task at high velocity;
the system's check lights are at the top, at centre the
multipurpose TV screen on which can be projected route
maps, touch- down viewing and normal communication
Thrust and flight controls, mounted on the arms of the chair
Swing seat, alters position to keep the pilot upright
during change from vertical to horizontal flight
during change from vertical to horizontal flight
Ramjet intake from four outer ports
Heat exchanger; molten metal circulated from
A-pile [see above] passes heat to rammed air
which exhausts at ramjet thrust pipes at left
A-pile [see above] passes heat to rammed air
which exhausts at ramjet thrust pipes at left
Ramjet thrust pipe
Ramjet thrust pipe
Central column separating engines from fuselage
One of four inner front ports intakes air which
passes to compressors and heat exchanger
passes to compressors and heat exchanger
One of four inner front ports intakes air which
passes to compressors and heat exchanger
passes to compressors and heat exchanger
Pipes serving heat exchangers
Heat exchanger for turbojet
Turbojet turbines
Centrally mounted high performance sustainer rocket
Jet exhaust ports
Fuel line
Booster rocket; one of four used for take-off
Exhaust ports of booster rockets
Exhaust ports of booster rockets
Cooling fins conduct excess heat from motors
in thin upper atmosphere [see above]
in thin upper atmosphere [see above]
Cooling fins conduct excess heat from motors
in thin upper atmosphere [see above]
in thin upper atmosphere [see above]
Cooling fins conduct excess heat from motors
in thin upper atmosphere [see above]
in thin upper atmosphere [see above]
Folding wings — diagram showing
folded wing position in black
folded wing position in black
