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Has there ever been a flying wing approach to freight flights?
by louithethrid 9y ago
Has there ever been a flying wing approach to freight flights?
- Animats 9y agoThere have been proposals. Here's the Lockheed Spanloader concept.[1] Never built. The idea comes around again every once in a while.[2] [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=jWlaIWwcsiwC&pg=PA112 https://books.google.com/books?id=jWlaIWwcsiwC&pg=PA112 [2] https://books.google.com/books?id=C0gUyoYewhoC&pg=PT183 https://books.google.com/books?id=C0gUyoYewhoC&pg=PT183
- nradov 9y agoThe trouble with flying wings is the fuselage tends to be too short for carrying a lot of cargo. You can't put heavy cargo outboard in the wings because then it's tough to balance the load and the high rotational inertia makes roll control difficult. Flying wings work fine for bombers because the "cargo" is very dense and will fit into a short bomb bay.