NASA Flight Research Center pilot Milt Thompson, shown here on the lakebed with the M2-F1 lifting body, was an early backer of R. Dale Reed's lifting-body proposal.
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NASA Flight Research Center pilot Milt Thompson, shown here on the lakebed with the M2-F1 lifting body, was an early backer of R. Dale Reed’s lifting-body proposal. He urged Flight Research Center director Paul Bikle to approve the M2-F1’s construction. Thompson also made the first glide flights in both the M2-F1 and its successor, the heavyweight M2-F2.15 Aug 1963NASA Photo› M2-F1 Project Description