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A tailless aircraft has no other horizontal surface besides its main wing. The aerodynamic control and stabilisation functions in both pitch and roll are incorporated into the main wing. A tailless type may still have a conventional vertical tail fin ( vertical stabilizer ) and rudder .
The concept of the flying wing was born on 16 February 1876 when French engineers Alphonse Pénaud and Paul Gauchot filed a patent for an aero-plane or flying aircraft [5] powered by two propellers and with all the characteristics of a flying wing as we know it today. [6] Tailless aircraft have been experimented with since the earliest attempts ...
The Saab 35 Draken was a successful tailless double-delta design. Like other tailless aircraft, the tailless delta wing is not suited to high wing loadings and requires a large wing area for a given aircraft weight. The most efficient aerofoils are unstable in pitch and the tailless type must use a less efficient design and therefore a bigger wing.
Three A-frames supported the wing engine, pilot and undercarriage. The wing was straight edged, tapering from a central chord of 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) to 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) at the tips. The leading edge was swept at 35°. All Dunne's tailless aircraft had swept wings with marked washout (reduction of angle of incidence) at the tips.
The Handley Page HP. 75 Manx was a British experimental aircraft designed by Handley Page that flew test flights in the early 1940s for possible transport, bomber and fighter aircraft projects. It was notable for its unconventional design characteristics, being a twin-engine tailless design of pusher configuration .
There were at least two tailless monoplanes, one built for the 1922 Coupe Deutsch with a 240 kW (320 hp) Hispano-Suiza V-8 engine [3] and another with a 12 kW (16 hp) Sergant A inline. The latter was designed to compete in a contest for low power aircraft, organised by the Petit Parisien newspaper. [ 2 ]
Alexander Martin Lippisch (2 November 1894 – 11 February 1976) was a German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and also worked in the U.S.
The Reluctant Phoenix is a British human-powered aircraft, designed and built in the 1960s by the British engineer Daniel Perkins. It was notable for being an inflatable delta-wing tailless design, and for being flown indoors. [1] [2] [3]