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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.
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]
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 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.
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 ...
With help from the US Navy, the US Coast Guard and contracted fishing trawlers scouring the ocean floor, investigators were able to recover more than 95% of the aircraft, and, after almost a year ...
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 ...
Waldo Waterman's first flying wing aircraft was the unofficially named Waterman Whatsit, a pusher configuration low swept-wing monoplane with fins near its wing tips. The Whatsit also featured a wing-mounted tricycle undercarriage and a trim foreplane. Powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) Kinner K-5 5-cylinder radial pusher engine, it first flew in 1932 ...