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Tailless aircraft have been flown since the pioneer days; the first stable aeroplane to fly was the tailless Dunne D.5, in 1910. The most successful tailless configuration has been the tailless delta, especially for combat aircraft, though the Concorde airliner is also a delta configuration.
Further difficulties arise from the problem of fitting the pilot, engines, flight equipment, and payload all within the depth of the wing section. Other known problems with the flying wing design relate to pitch and yaw. Pitch issues are discussed in the article on tailless aircraft. The problems of yaw are discussed below.
Metal fatigue and aircraft design flaw 6 Structural failure of the right horizontal stabiliser due to metal fatigue and aircraft design flaw 1978-06-26 Helikopter Service Flight 165: North Sea, Norway Sikorsky S-61: Fatigue 18 Rotor blade loosened after fatigue to the knuckle joint: crashed into the sea [10] 1979-05-25 American Airlines Flight 191
The aircraft was designed to use 750 hp (560 kW) I.Ae. 19R El Indio, but these were not available and the prototype was forced to use 450 hp (340 kW) I.Ae. 16 El Gaucho engines instead. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A crew of two were sat in an enclosed cockpit above the leading edge of the wing. [ 5 ]
Employing the main fuselage section and engine of the de Havilland Vampire mated to a longer fuselage with a single fin and swept wings, the de Havilland DH 108 was proposed in 1944 as an aerodynamic test bed for tailless designs, particularly the DH.106 Comet which had initially been considered a tailless, swept-wing concept. [1]
Pair of tailless jets seen flying over Chengdu city in southwest Sichuan province may be sixth-gen aircraft
Data from American X&Y Planes General characteristics Crew: one Length: 17 ft 11 in (5.46 m) Wingspan: 38 ft 8 in (11.79 m) Height: 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m) Wing area: 350 sq ft (33 m 2) (approx) Gross weight: 3,900 lb (1,769 kg) Powerplant: 2 × Lycoming O-145 four-cylinder horizontally opposed air-cooled piston engines, 65 hp (48 kW) each (original engines) Powerplant: 2 × Franklin 6AC-264F2 six ...
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