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The time has come for flying wings! https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/northrop-once-built-planes-that-were-just-giant-wings-1608574997 https://paleofuture.gizmod
by twic 8y ago
The time has come for flying wings!
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/northrop-once-built-planes-that-were-just-giant-wings-1608574997 https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/northrop-once-built-planes-t...
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/greener_aircraft.html https://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/greener_air...
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/civil/flying_wings1.htm http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/civil/flying_wings1.htm
Or if you believe these nerds, a sort of flint axe with little weedy wings:
http://oddjob.utias.utoronto.ca/~dwz/Miscellaneous/ReistZinggJofA2016.pdf http://oddjob.utias.utoronto.ca/~dwz/Miscellaneous/ReistZing...
- llukas 8y agoUnless you'd rebuild all airports for higher wingspan aircraft (ie. same process that had to be done for A380 to land but on bigger scale) - it's not happening.