NASA WB-57 Makes Gear-Up Landing in Houston After Mechanical Issue Aviation News – A NASA-operated WB-57 research aircraft made a gear-up landing at Ellington Airfield in Houston after a mechanical issue, with all crew members reported safe. The incident matters as the aircraft supports critical high-altitude scientific and space-related missions. NASA confirmed the incident occurred on Tuesday at Ellington Airfield, where the WB-57 N927NA is operated by the agency’s Johnson Space Center.

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It hangs there, a metallic beast fueled by jet kerosene & high-grade tax dollars. Is it a weapon? A transport? Or just a very loud way to tell gravity to shove off?

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The Bisnovat 5 was a Soviet experimental research aircraft developed in the late 1940s to explore the challenges of supersonic flight. The project was initiated by Matus Ruvimovich Bisnovat, a talented Soviet aeronautical engineer who had worked previously on high-speed aircraft designs. His aim was to produce a small, rocket-powered research aircraft that could gather essential data about aerodynamics, control, and stability in the transonic and supersonic regimes. At the time, Soviet knowledge in this field was limited, and the Bisnovat 5 represented one of the first concrete steps to address that gap. The design of the Bisnovat 5 was straightforward and inspired by the German DFS 346 which had been captured at the end of the Second World War. It was a compact, tailless, mid-wing monoplane with sharply swept wings, a streamlined fuselage, and a retractable skid undercarriage instead of wheels, to simplify construction and reduce drag. Power was to be provided by a rocket engine based on the German Walter HWK 109-509 unit, which had powered the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and DFS 346. Due to slow progress, the programme was abandoned and the Bisnovat 5 was cancelled without the aircraft making a single powered flight and only sixteen gliding flights, between 14 July 1948 and November 1949, during which a maximum speed of Mach 0.775 was attained.

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