Template talk:Spaceplanes

See the Template:Space Shuttles Talk page for the discussion on this template and the "Space Shuttles" Template. Thehardwareman 01:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Can people who know nothing about this topic stop editing it?
Because they are repeatably adding planes that have been canceled to the active list and adding active planes to the canceled list (X-51, SpaceShipTwo, SpaceShipThree...).--Craigboy (talk) 22:05, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Does Adeline count as a spaceplane?
Does Adeline count as a spaceplane? After all, it goes up beyond 100 km, re-enters, has wings, lands horizontally on a runway. You could think of it as a spaceplane that pushes a huge disposable drop-tank in front of it. I'm not sure ... --SteepLearningCurve (talk) 16:52, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Simplify template
The top-level division into sections by country makes this template very tall, sparsely populated and difficult to read. I would suggest keeping just four sections "Active", "In development", "Retired / Historical" and "Cancelled", then place country flags next to each project. This would be similar to other navboxes such as Orbital launch systems, Space stations, Spaceport or  Supply spacecraft. Comments welcome. — JFG talk 09:09, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Clarification of listing criteria
The template currently lists Hypersonic Flight Experiment (HEX) and ALFLEX, past flights which were atmospheric in nature (not reaching 100km or 50mi). The two were technology demonstrators for later spaceplane development, but the fact that they never reached space makes their listing here questionable. The template should be either restricted to 'true' spaceplanes (excluding Hypersonic Flight Experiment and HYFLEX), or include all spaceplane-related atmospheric demonstrators like BOR-1, X-33, X-40, etc. Hms1103 (talk) 14:51, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

U.S. Black Programs - POV tag
Neutrality tag (Minor POV problem) was added to U.S. Black Programs sub-section in July 2020. User that added tag was banned indefinitely. Tag did not include an explanation of neutrality issue or any reference in talk page. Tag was generating "issue" for all articles that used the template. I removed tag from the template as it was included without an explanation or rationale. Please reach out to me if you would like to discussSpaceHist65 (talk) 16:36, 2 January 2023 (UTC)