Spysats took days to prepare for launch, and those already in orbit might take days to get into position. “We thought it was a pretty good idea, because McDonnell Douglas did an excellent job. But the redirection toward component-level demonstration, according to a Pratt & Whitney report, “was accomplished to avoid duplicating work performed on the NASA Phase B Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) studies.” Pratt & Whitney employees later claimed that they were told to destroy their blueprints and test data to “avoid embarrassing NASA.” Pratt & Whitney engineers obviously felt they had a superior product, but what happened to it and why probably requires further investigation.When the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office were evaluating ISINGLASS to replace the OXCART and Blackbird, they did not discuss the Mach 22 rocket-glider in terms of surprising targets, but in terms of quick-response and rapid turnaround. “‘Where’d you get that?’ they’d ask. In the case of ISINGLASS, McDonnell Douglas pitched the system and the CIA was interested, but did not have the money.

“ISINGLASS showed great promise,” he said. Harold Altis, who later became a senior manager at the company, served as the project manager. Our mission. Careers & Internships. “It would be launched, say, off the coast of Spain. McDonnell Douglas took the ISINGLASS proposal to the Air Force, but according to Cunningham they were uninterested because it was a “not-invented-here” idea.

Petitioner, McDonnell Douglas Cop., is an aerospace and aircraft manufacturer headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, where it employs over 30,000 people. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Project Isinglass was developed as a result of the vulnerability of existing crewed reconnaissance aircraft, such as the The initial aircraft proposed under the Project Isinglass name was developed by the The Isinglass/Rheinberry concept was considered to be superior to spy satellites in a number of ways, including rapid turnaround time and quick response capability.Simulations showed that the aircraft would be essentially unstoppable by existing or projected air defenses; even Following fourteen months of work, McDonnell had developed the aircraft to the point where serious proposals were made for its construction.When the CIA failed to receive approval for funding, McDonnell approached the Although the development of the Isinglass/Rheinberry aircraft was conducted using McDonnell's own funding,A retired CIA officer interviewed about the project places the intended speed of the craft at Mach 22, Well, that was research that was done about 1965.”Dwayne Day would appreciate any first-hand information that anybody can provide on the ISINGLASS or the RHEINBERRY programs. McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967.

This was most likely in early 1965. But by the mid-1960s the CIA began looking at a potential replacement for the OXCART, a Mach 22 rocket-powered glider known as ISINGLASS.Relatively little has been publicly written about ISINGLASS despite a growing body of declassified documents about the program. Design and development. It was like the eight vehicles were spaced out over three years and the total cost was like $2.6 billion.

It was a true monster for its time, known as the XLR-129. The vehicle would have skids for landing gear, like the X-15, and land on a conventional 3,000-meter (10,000-foot) runway. ISINGLASS was a project for a very fast (sub escape velocity) recon aircraft, or perhaps spacecraft if you get picky. A brief Air Force effort to resurrect ISINGLASS occurred near the end of 1968, but it failed.Despite the chilly reception, even decades later Cunningham was impressed. McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet in Australian service; McDonnell Douglas MD-11; McDonnell Douglas MD-12; McDonnell Douglas MD-80; ... McDonnell Douglas MD-95; P. Project Isinglass; S. McDonnell Douglas Sky Owl; T. McDonnell Douglas T-45 Goshawk; X. McDonnell Douglas X-36 Last edited on 3 March 2017, at 17:02. Тема гиперзвука, конечно, в 60-ых годах была интересна далеко не только ЦРУ или военным.

“They built a third-scale cross-section of this thing,” he said, “showing what they could do in a metallurgical sense, because it had all kinds of exotic metals in it, you know, heat-reflecting materials—columbium and all these other weird things that you don’t see on the grocery shelves.”With so much of the company’s money invested in their work, McDonnell Douglas made a serious proposal to the National Reconnaissance Office to build ISINGLASS, even detailing who would work on the project if they received a development contract. An alternative design completed by McDonnell Aircraft in 1965 is usually considered part of Project Isinglass, however some documents refer to the aircraft as having been codenamed Project Rheinberry. The CIA did not have any money, so McDonnell agreed to self-fund the project.