The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Oct. 11, 1965, issue featured Northrop Corp.'s M2-F2 lifting body research vehicle mated to the wing of a Boeing B-52 at NASA’s Flight Research Center ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Jay L. King, Joseph D. Huxman and Orion D. Billeter assist NASA research pilot Milt Thompson (on the ladder) into the cockpit of the M2-F2 lifting ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the Remote Controlled research staff, from left to right: Richard C. Eldredge, Dale Reed, James O. Newman and Bob McDonald, display several lifting ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This M2-F3 lifting body was the first of the heavyweight, wingless lifting body research craft of the 1960s. The ...

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Some 45,000 ft. above the Southern California desert last week, a B-52 bomber cut loose the strange cargo tucked under its wing. Freed from the mother ship, a gleaming but cumbersome aluminum shape ...

The contraption looked more like an inverted flat iron than a flying machine. With two tail fins and no wings, a rounded belly and a flat top, the experimental craft M2-F2 was rolled out last week by ...