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Old January 15th 04, 03:03 PM
Denis Flament
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Bill Daniels wrote:

Denis, you should read up on the French designer Charles Fauvell and his
flying wings. They flew pretty well although I think Jim Marske's designs
are showing higher performance.

Tailless designs fly quite well and the performance really doesn't suffer.
They would be perfect for small jet engine self launchers.


Hi Bill

Yes I know that Fauvel "ailes volantes" like the glider AV36, and other
flying wings like Horten's fly quite well.

But I still doubt that suppressing the tail means suppressing the trim
drag of an airplane. Flying wings have to use stable wing profiles (with
positive pitching moment) and these produce more extra drag than a
tailplane.

Things are not so simple...

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Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?
 




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