Mysteries Solved?

[frustratedpilot]

My friend's mystery ship. Paul Francis acquired this space shuttle model from a Hollywood effects shop years ago when he was working as a make-up and effects man. He wanted to know what it was and possibly what movies it might have been used in; I had hunches.



This is from a NASA .pdf file from their archives. The model shown is smaller than Paul's but is the same configuration; this one was tested in the hypersonic wind tunnel at the Ames Research Laboratory. It is a North American Rockwell NAR-134B orbiter concept from about 1969. According to other parts of the document, if the real thing had been built it would have been bigger than the Enterprise/Columbia-class orbiter by about three-fourths.

I've contacted the historian at Boeing by e-mail overday to see if they might have more information or possible film archives.