X-24A Flight Manual

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"We have the technology...."

 

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By the way, the first X-24A at first was unpowered, the next one had the same type rocket engines used in the Bell X-1 and the X-24C was supposed to use an Atlas MA-3 Sustainer engine rated at 60,000 lb thrust. The Sustainer as used in the Atlas had a Propellant Utilization System controlling it to optimize propellant use, , thereby making it throttleable. But due to our having scrapped so many Atlas E/F and then discovering that we needed all we had left - and because we had quit building new production rocket engines, we could not let them have an engine for the X-24C.

That could have been a real hot rod!