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For over a century, wings defined flight.
So what happens when you remove them entirely?

In the 1960s, NASA built a bizarre experimental aircraft with no wings, no engine, and no guarantee it would work. Pilots called it the Flying Bathtub. Engineers called it a risk worth taking.

This video explores the true story of the M2-F1 lifting body — the wingless aircraft that proved shape alone could generate lift, survived dangerous test flights, and helped influence how spacecraft would eventually return from orbit and land on runways.

A design that looked wrong.
A flight test that nearly ended the program.
And an idea that quietly changed aerospace history.