British Interplanetary Society Concept (1950)
A concept for a three-stage vehicle, the third stage of which would be winged.
This stage would re-enter the atmosphere by skipping repeatedly off the atmosphere
to loose speed. All stages were to be re-usable.
Armstrong Whitworth Waverider Study (1950's)
Two waverider vehicles (aerodynamic shapes which produce lift without the use of wings)
were to be mounted back to back on top of a Blue Streak rocket. One waverider would
carry extra propellant for the other, which would carry a two-man crew. An extra two
stages would have to be added to Blue Streak to get the waveriders into orbit.
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