Posted on 07/27/2007 8:17:19 PM PDT by radar101
Paging Batman: your new plane is ready.
Puking first class or coach? Not a good design for passengers. Especially if there are yaw problems in turbulence or weather.
And folks that ride camels think they can beat us. Only in the forum of public opinion, not in the tech area.
Thats not it, its the “797” mockup someone came up with a while ago. Boeing denies that exists.
Mini-Boeing Bump...
It’s my understanding that computer controlled fly by wire has taken care of most of these problems ala B-2.
What kind of plane is that. Airbus?
I saw it on the internet, it must be true.
No worries.
It’s a fake that was being passed on an Anti-airbus thread a few months ago.
Won’t fix the lack of windows problem...read up on early B-1 issues. Window are very important. Speaking of B-1s, I once had a flight to Rapid City on a Beech 1900 that lost cabin pressure(?) and a/c. Anyway, we had to cruise at a very turbulent altitude, lots of yaw...and almost everyone was puking. So bad, it almost got to me. I’ve never puked on an airplane...at least not yet...neggies are rough.
Glad to hear it. That’s all I need to know.
You suggest it would have yaw problems -- why would it?
If it was controlled by classic aileron and rudder control surfaces, then I can imagine it would be harder to keep from yaw'ing than a traditional separate fuselage and wing design, because it lacks that nice long skinny fuselage that tends to want to fly where it's pointed.
But I'm assuming this plane has some fancy computers managing its control surfaces, and can fly whatever why they want it to fly, preferably nice and stable for land lubbers like me, even in turbulence.
IT looks scary. I don’t see much stability in the shape. The thrust is nowhere near the center of gravity. What controls angle of attack? There’s no cannards, there’s no rudder, there’s no tail section. The wings have no dihedral that I can see. Is this thing supposed to be flown by a human, or a super computer? It looks like it would flip nose over tail like a 3x5 note card tossed out a car window.
very cool
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