Length: 12.5"
Wingspan: 7"
Code: NC09134

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Boeing Aircraft Corporation's MX-2145 Project with Rand Corporation that started in January 1954 explored what sort of aircraft would be needed to deliver the very-high-yield nuclear weapons then under construction. Long range and high payload were obvious requirements, but they also concluded that after a bombing run it would need supersonic speed to avoid the nuclear blast.

Jet engines of the time had very poor fuel efficiency; an aircraft capable of carrying a reasonable bomb load all the way to the Soviet Union from the continental United States had to be very large. One example was the B-52 Stratofortress, a strictly subsonic design. An aircraft able to fly the same types of missions as the B-52 and have supersonic performance would have to carry much more fuel for supersonic flight portion. The aircraft industry was exploring different ways of solving this problem.

There was considerable interest in the use of nuclear powered aircraft in the bomber role in 1947. Nuclear engines used the heat generated by a nuclear reactor in place of jet fuel, giving an aircraft virtually unlimited cruising range. In addition to solving the range issue, these aircraft could be flown to holding areas away from the airbases and kept in the air for extended periods of time, making them immune to sneak attack. Accordingly, Boeing developed plans for a nuclear powered bomber equipped with afterburners that used chemical fuel. Lockheed and Convair proposed similar designs.

Another possibility was the use of boron-enriched "zip fuels", which improved the energy density of the fuel by about 40%.[6] Various US government agencies had been experimenting with zip fuels for some time, and they believed that once the problems were solved zip fuel would become almost universal for high-speed aircraft. Although the advantages of a zip-fueled aircraft would not be as great as those of a nuclear powered one, it would offer a real performance increase and was a relatively straightforward development of existing engines and fuels.