Monoplane with mid-wings, rear horizontal and vertical stabilizers and pulsejet mounted to top at the rear. Pulsejet consisting of a long open tube tapered at front to accomodate larger diameter air intake with grill inside front. Painted canary yellow with dark blue, white, and red U.S. Army Air Corps or U.S. Air Force star and bars insignia, with number 213 on nose, in dark blue. Dark blue band around nose, just before the number 213, with white star pattern; canary yellow nose tip like the rest of the body. Contains both propellant and pressurant spheres, each one steel, plus aluminum piping and some electronics.
Created by
Mark Avino
Date Created
04/30/2019
Source
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Keywords
Military; Missiles; Space
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