Northrop HL-10

HL-10
General information
Type	Lifting body technology demonstrator
Manufacturer	Northrop
Designer	Langley Research Center
Status	On display, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
Primary user	NASA
Number built	1
History
First flight	22 December 1966
Retired	17 July 1970

The Northrop HL-10 is one of five US heavyweight lifting body designs flown at NASA's Flight Research Center (FRC—later Dryden Flight Research Center) in Edwards, California, from July 1966 to November 1975 to study and validate the concept of safely maneuvering and landing a low lift-over-drag vehicle designed for reentry from space.^[1] It was a NASA design and was built to evaluate "inverted airfoil" lifting body and delta planform. It currently is on display at the entrance to the Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base.