Ram jet thrust pipes [see below]

Stabilizers

Engine housing [see below]

Cooling fins

Atomic pile in sandwich shielding

Rocket propellant and pumps

Rear pitch-and-yaw jets centered in air intakes [at high speed and in thin air normal control surfaces are inoperative]

Turbojet fuel tanks

Central services duct

Folding wing slot of girder section gives great strength to fuselage

Centrally placed VTOL rocket with fuel

Folding wing, contains landing leg

Auxiliary motors and batteries

Braced wing hinge member and hydraulic ram controlling wing angle

Life support systems, including oxygen bottles and air recycling equipment

Pressure bulkhead

Air recycle main duct

Motor-driven circular plate in bulkhead, supporting pilot seat

Entry/exit hatch with folding ladder for use when landed horizontally

Pilot area [see below]

Refrigerated hull

Instrument and check computers

Retractable destructor cannon [normally used for demolition of dangerous wreckage, &c.]

Forward pitch-and-yaw jets

Probes and sensors inside shockwave heat cone

Control panel, all systems are automated where possible to simplify the pilot's tremendous task
at high velocity; the system's check lights are at the top, at centre the multipurpose TV screen
on which can be projected route maps, touchdown viewing and normal communication

Thrust and flight controls, mounted on the arms of the chair

Swing seat, alters position to keep the pilot upright during change from vertical to horizontal flight

Ramjet intake from four outer ports

Heat exchanger; molten metal circulated from A-pile [see above] passes
heat to rammed air which exhausts at ramjet thrust pipes at left

Ramjet thrust pipe

Ramjet thrust pipe

Central column separating engines from fuselage

One of four inner front ports intakes air which passes to compressors and heat exchanger

One of four inner front ports intakes air which passes to compressors and heat exchanger

Pipes serving heat exchangers

Heat exchanger for turbojet

Turbojet turbines

Centrally mounted high performance sustainer rocket

Jet exhaust ports

Fuel line

Booster rocket; one of four used for take-off

Exhaust ports of booster rockets

Cooling fins conduct excess heat from motors in thin upper atmosphere [see above]