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To: Tijeras_Slim

Definitely fixed wing since it had wings but they didn’t rotate, but I guess you’d have to classify the X-15 as a “motor glider”.


9 posted on 09/14/2016 10:31:54 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: Pecos

Another “motor glider”:

“The F-4 established 16 speed, altitude and time-to-climb records. In 1959, its prototype set the world altitude record at 98,556 feet (30,000 meters).”

http://www.boeing.com/history/products/f-4-phantom-ii.page

(Of course, the Phantom basically ‘firewalled’ the throttle, got to max speed, then pointed the nose at the moon and coasted to the record altitude.Then it ‘motor glided’ [like a brick] back down to a low enough altitude to restart the engines. Somewhere along the way, the flight control surfaces had enough airflow mass to become effective again..... “Wheeeeee!!!)


18 posted on 09/14/2016 11:30:48 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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