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Plane that manoeuvres without flaps developed
The Telegraph ^
| 27 Sep 2010
| A.N.Other
Posted on 09/27/2010 10:46:46 AM PDT by managusta
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:46:49 AM PDT
by
managusta
To: managusta
Interesting but what happens if power is lost?
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:49:20 AM PDT
by
Leg Olam
(A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.)
To: managusta
I’d sure like to see how it executes a barrell roll using nothing but varitions of thrust.
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:50:15 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(A fearless person cannot be controlled.)
To: Leg Olam
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:50:39 AM PDT
by
brivette
To: Leg Olam
Looks unmanned so no harm no foul.
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:51:04 AM PDT
by
rahbert
To: Leg Olam
"...but what happens if power is lost? "Expensive rock. Then a smoking hole in the ground.
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:51:22 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(A fearless person cannot be controlled.)
To: managusta
Maneuver without flaps? Already been done....
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:52:32 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: managusta
Wait until you lose an engine (thrust) and cannot control it. Give me a Cessna 152 instead. I can land that puppy al day long with no power.
I’m assuming this has an ejection seat....
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:52:54 AM PDT
by
rocket002
(99% of Democrats give the rest a bad name.)
To: managusta
Flaps are a mechanism used to provide an increment in lift during takeoff or landing. They are not a control device. (with the exception of unique designs like flaperons)
The author of this article means elevator, aileron, rudder, etc. when they write "flap".
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:53:02 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: managusta
There’s a reason why today’s aircraft have redundancy systems.
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:53:30 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Know this, I will return to this land... rebuild where the ruins did stand)
To: managusta
Hmm.....
Double delta platform....
Ergo the Saab Draken and the Dyke Delta.
11
posted on
09/27/2010 10:54:05 AM PDT
by
taildragger
((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
To: Leg Olam
Most modern fly-by-wire stability augmented aircraft become tumbling bricks when they lose power.
12
posted on
09/27/2010 10:56:37 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: r9etb
Wing warping, yes. Don't see a lot of that anymore. At least not by choice.
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:58:31 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: r9etb
Agreed by some very smart men who also built the engine and designed the propellers as well.
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posted on
09/27/2010 10:59:52 AM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: avg_freeper
Wing warping, yes. Exactly ;-)
Don't see a lot of that anymore. At least not by choice.
I saw an article about it a couple of years back ... something about modern technology making it more possible. It would have some advantages over the blown-air approach....
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posted on
09/27/2010 11:01:14 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: r9etb
“Maneuver without flaps? Already been done....”
There may not be flaps on the main wings, but vertical flap in front and horizontal flap at the back were used to steer the plane.
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posted on
09/27/2010 11:02:30 AM PDT
by
DrC
To: avg_freeper
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posted on
09/27/2010 11:02:53 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: managusta
No flaps eh?
Then what are those flappy looking things on the back of the wings?
To: DrC
There may not be flaps on the main wings, but vertical flap in front and horizontal flap at the back were used to steer the plane. Roll control was provided by changing the shape of the wings to produce a differential lift.
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posted on
09/27/2010 11:05:49 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: avg_freeper
“Most modern fly-by-wire stability augmented aircraft become tumbling bricks when they lose power.”
That is why all pilots love Martin Baker the standard by which ejection seats are measured.
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posted on
09/27/2010 11:06:14 AM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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