Lee wrote: > I think I've heard of some of the stuff Curt's referring to - the next gen US > fighters are planned to be thrust vectoring only. Taking the control surface > stuff out of the wing removes channeling, making it more simple but also > stronger and more resiliant to damage - you don't have to worry about the > control surfaces getting damaged. Infact, the entire wing could sustain a > lot of damage but as long as there's something there, it'd probably be > flyable with such a control system. > > The planiforms I've seen have been trapizoidal, with an area cut out of the > middle, along the fuselage! No tail surfaces, just vectoring thrust. > > Landing must be a laugh - difficult to imagine landing without > flaps - very high AoA perhaps. > > LeeE
http://www.nawcad.navy.mil/strike/projects/x31.cfm http://www.nawcad.navy.mil/strike/projects/fall2001/x31_fall2001.cfm (4 MB, X-31 landing) http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/X-31/Medium/EM-0036-04.mpg (800 KB, X-31 post-loop stall; this one will blow you away) http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/X-31/Medium/EM-0036-08.mov (350 KB, "Mongoose" manuever; this one will blow you away more) http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/X-31/Medium/EM-0036-05.mov _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
