"xerj" wrote in message
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Thanks Dudley.

Make sense now.
No sweat. Darrell hit on some of the operational issues for you. Also in
fighters like the 106 and the Mirage, you could grab a yard of stick above
corner, rotate the lift vector, and bleed the Ps down with the drag curve so
fast that overshoot became a real issue for a shooter sitting on a tracking
solution.
It was Lippitsch I think who pioneered the delta without a tail. The idea
was popular for a while, but the extremely high landing speeds made handling
the airplane a real challenge. The whole deal centered around the trailing
edge design. Putting the horizontal stab back on the airplane (Mig 21/blown
flaps etc) helped the low speed/angle of attack situation on landings, but
the delta remains even today as a huge induced drag machine into the left
side of the envelope.
Power control and front side/back side power curve issues on final are still
major areas of concern for the deltas.
Darrell knows......that arrowhead of an airplane he flew was one hell of a
piece of equipment :-))
Dudley Henriques