Who Likes Aircraft ?

[69 Sleeper Bee]

Actual RC scale model airplane NASA used to prove a full size 747 could piggyback the space shuttle across the country from Edwards AFB California or White Sands New Mexico back to Kennedy Space Center Florida.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I wonder why it was mounted with the nose high?

 

[f569]

I wonder why it was mounted with the nose high?

I read many years ago that without the flight computers piloting the shuttle was like trying to fly a brick.
Perhaps it was for lift?