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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.
The X-44 was designed by Lockheed Martin to demonstrate the feasibility of an aircraft controlled by vectored thrust alone. The X-44 design had a reduced radar signature (due to lack of tail and vertical stabilizers) and was made more efficient by eliminating the tail and rudder surfaces, and instead using thrust vectors to provide yaw, pitch ...
The Vought F7U Cutlass is a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Chance Vought.It was the first tailless production fighter in the United States as well as the Navy's first jet equipped with swept wings and the first to be designed with afterburners.
Pair of tailless jets seen flying over Chengdu city in southwest Sichuan province may be sixth-gen aircraft
Data from Flight, 1911 General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 21 ft 0 in (6.40 m) Wingspan: 36 ft 0 in (10.97 m) Wing area: 230 sq ft (21 m 2) including elevons Powerplant: 1 × Green water cooled inline, 60 hp (45 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed, 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) diameter Notes ^ Tailless Trials ^ a b c The Dunne Monoplane, 1911 ^ Letter from Dunne to Science Museum, 20 June 1928. Archive ref. DM ...
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 ...
Expert engineering, the size of the aircraft and seatbelts all probably played a role in protecting people aboard a passenger jet that flipped over at an airport in Toronto, experts said Monday ...
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.