Chad Irby wrote:
(robert arndt) wrote:

Here's a whole bunch of things Lippisch pioneered:

http://www.lippischdesign.com/pages/collage.html

Well, from that page, he really didn't "pioneer" much.

He built some very nice gliders, he pushed the tailless delta wing
concept, and he designed a lot of other stuff that didn't really work
out very well, like a coal-burning ramjet and an outboard-powered
ground-effect boat.

His two big successes were the Me-163 and his gliders. Other than that,
not so much.

Us trike flyers worldwide will always credit an American named
Francis Rogallo for pioneering the tailless, delta wing concept while
working at NASA's Langley Research Center.