Product Description

1/144 scale X-20 Dinosaur w/Titan II rocket full resin kit.
The kit comes with etched parts, decals, and a display stand.

The X-20 is a space reconnaissance aircraft conceived by the United States Department of Defense.
Influenced by the Senger-Silbervogel antipodean bomber brought back from Germany, the US Department of Defense in the late 1950s conceived of a manned spacecraft that would be launched vertically using a rocket booster, and after rising, would skip through the upper atmosphere like a pebble bouncing on the surface of water (dynamic soaring), and once above its destination, would use high-resolution cameras to conduct reconnaissance or drop nuclear bombs from space.
This aircraft was intended as a military spacecraft, but in order to camouflage its purpose it was given the designation X-20 as an experimental and research aircraft, an X-plane, and in 1959 it was ordered from an aircraft manufacturer for use in spaceplane research.
The nickname of this aircraft, Dyna-Soar, is taken from Dyna-Soar, an abbreviation of the aforementioned flight method, Dynamic-Soaring.
The first launch was scheduled for 1966 using a Titan rocket, but NASA had already begun its separate Mercury and Gemini programs in 1962, and the X-20 was deemed too costly (approximately $410 million) to justify its benefits, so the project was canceled in 1963.



Item Size/Weight : 22.3 x 12 x 3.4 cm / 156g

Product Specifications

Item series

Detail Up Parts

Country

USA

Item code

NWA152

JAN code

4571628242661

Purchase Information