Fast glass biplanes

In article , Ron Wanttaja says...


Maybe with todays technology that could be achievable.But for right now
all I can do is repeat what one of my Aero teachers said " the Indians knew
which end of the arrow to put the feathers" and "when did you ever see birds
with their tails where their beaks oughta be?" Although flying wings are
achieving with computers flight efficiency that here to fore was impossible with
pilot only control systems. Northrop was farther advanced with airframes then
the electronics industry was with computers.

See ya

Chuck


I wonder what one could do with a canard if you eliminated the need to have
the main wing stall before the canard? Seems like a fly-by-wire sort of
system could sense when the wing was about to stall and limit canard
up-travel to prevent it happening. Or the plane could incorporate a system
to provide sudden downforce if the plane started to pitch up
(compressed-air jets in the nose, etc.). Seems a pity that you have to
avoid operations at the wing's highest efficiency points in an otherwise
efficient design.