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X-Wings and Canard Rotor Wings.
Two questions.
1. What ever became of the X-wing stopped rotor concept? It seemed to be a big thing in the 1980's but just went away. Is anyone still working on it? 2. IN a similar Vein, did the Canard Rotor Wing X-50 Dragonfly ever recover from its accident? Thanks! |
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Good question - I'm not sure what actually happened to the two S-72
Rotor System Research Aircraft. They were meant to test a whole bunch of interchangeable rotor configurations, but never were used in an actual test program for the X-wing or anything else. I do know they flew at least them in fixed-wing airplane configuration, but the X-Wing program itself ran out of money and never flew. X-50 is indeed going to fly again, hopefully next month. They did some wind tunnel testing to figure out what went wrong with the software. HW |
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