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Can someone explain how those planes work, without a rudder or a vertical stabilizer? The Chinese aircraft depicted in the article has large vertical surfaces
by mastazi 5y ago
Can someone explain how those planes work, without a rudder or a vertical stabilizer?
The Chinese aircraft depicted in the article has large vertical surfaces on the wing tips, but other prototypes depicted in the same article have no vertical control surfaces whatsoever.
I don't understand how you achieve controlled flight without those. Am I being dense?
Edit: specifically I don't understand how do you control yaw.
- FredFS456 5y agoThe B-2 uses airbrakes at the wingtips. Actuate the right airbrake to yaw right, etc. You can also use differential throttle of two engines to achieve the same thing.
- beerandt 5y agoA new generation would likely also include thrust vectoring like on the F-22.
- avereveard 5y agoEh. Maybe. You get a load of weight in exchange for one good high AOA turn, and then you're slow. If you don't kill the bandit here and there, or if there's another, you're done. Seems great in 1v1 merges, while abetter twr seems better in everything else.
- beerandt 5y agoI meant more left/right thrust to control yaw without sacrificing your stealthy edges, not necessarily the full f-22 capabilities. Ie, not needing to actuate control surfaces on the wings (or minimize the need), in the context of not having a vertical stabilizer. Iirc, the B-2 has to "hide" certain control surfaces momentarily when getting pulsed with radar.
- justsomehnguy 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_wing#Yaw_control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_wing#Yaw_control