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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.
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.
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
A tailless aircraft is one which has no separate horizontal stabilizer or control surface, ... One example built of the Pioneer 1, at least 16 of the Pioneer II.
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 ]
Tailless aircraft refers to aircraft with no distinct horizontal stabilizing surfaces in their tail section. They typically employ elevons and/or canard front stabilizing wings. These aircraft usually still have normal empennage (vertical tail fin and rudder ).
The Carmier-Arnoux Simplex was a tailless racing aircraft built in France in the early 1920s. Design