The Conroy Virtus Designed by John M. Conroy of the Turbo-Three Corporation incorporate a pair of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress fuselages to form a new craft using existing parts for cost-savings. The Conroy Virtus was a proposed American large transport aircraft intended to carry the Space Shuttle. Designed, beginning in 1974, by John M. Conroy of the Turbo-Three Corporation, it was to incorporate a pair of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress fuselages to form a new craft using existing parts for cost-savings.
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While the project was seriously considered, it proved impractically large and NASA chose to develop the Boeing 747–based Shuttle Carrier from surplus commercial aircraft instead.
The Lockheed Twin Galaxy featured two C-5 Galaxy’s with six engines to cradle the orbiter between twin fuselages.That was the basic premise of this conceptual design looked in the early 1980s by engineers at the then-Lockheed-Georgia Company in Marietta, Georgia.
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A transport aircraft design that was about twenty percent larger than a C-5 Galaxy was developed. According Code One Magazine, the multibody transport shown here used the basic ACMA design with a joined wing and six engines. Note that only the left fuselage has a flight deck. While this design could literally carry tons and tons of cargo, finding enough runways wide enough to support it was an obvious drawback../theaviationgeekclub
