File:M2-F1 with towing car.jpg

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DescriptionM2-F1 with towing car.jpg	English: The M2-F1, the unlikely forefather of the NASA space shuttle, was the world's first manned lifting body. Made of wood with an internal framework of steel tubes and no wings, the M2-F1 looked more like a bathtub sitting on a tricycle than an aircraft. Conceived by NASA engineers at the Ames Research Center, the lifting body was intended as an alternative to a capsule spacecraft, which returned to Earth dangling under a parachute. A lifting body was not a conventional winged aircraft, but rather, used air flowing over its fuselage to generate lift. This design allowed it to land on a runway like a conventional airplane. Because the M2-F1 was unpowered, a tow vehicle was required. The solution: a 1963 Pontiac convertible, which when modified, was capable of reaching 110 miles per hour with the M2-F1 in tow.
Date	23 April 1963
Source	http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/M2-F1/HTML/ED96-43663-1.html
Author	NASA/DFRC

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current	07:53, 31 October 2013	3,030 × 2,091 (4.17 MB)	Huntster	Restore full dimensions of original upload, from original NASA file sans text.
	06:20, 6 October 2008	2,763 × 2,072 (345 KB)	Elipongo	Higher resolution version
	15:17, 20 February 2008	558 × 358 (113 KB)	Tataroko-common	{{Information \|Description= \|Source= \|Date= \|Author= \|Permission= \|other_versions= }}
	11:57, 20 February 2008	558 × 480 (63 KB)	Tataroko-common	{{Information \|Description=M2-F1 with a towing car, Pontiac Convertible. \|Source=NASA's site (http://nix.larc.nasa.gov/search;jsessionid=1h9uqoja1tmt7?b=SC000107) \|Date=Taken in 1960s (probably 1963 or 1964) \|Author=NASA \|Permission= \|other_versions= }}