Look, Ma: no Wings! The Strange World of Lifting Body Aircraft

Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man, better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster. So goes the iconic opening of the classic 1970s television series The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors [...] The post Look, Ma: no Wings! The Strange World of Lifting Body Aircraft appeared first on Today I Found Out .

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