“READY FOR TAKE-OFF, X-13 hangs by its nose hook from cable stretched across launching platform. Long tube protruding from nose holds two instruments which measure plane’s yaw, pitch and angle of attack. When plane lands, its nose is hooked back onto cable. Combat versions of this model could dispense with platform and land on cable stretched between two trees. Blackened area on concrete behind plane is asphalt which was melted by jet blast in engine test” (via xplanes:)

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“READY FOR TAKE-OFF, X-13 hangs by its nose hook from cable stretched across launching platform. Long tube protruding from nose holds two instruments which measure plane’s yaw, pitch and angle of attack. When plane lands, its nose is hooked back onto cable.

Combat versions of this model could dispense with platform and land on cable stretched between two trees. Blackened area on concrete behind plane is asphalt which was melted by jet blast in engine test”

(via xplanes:)