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Old 12-24-2012, 05:44 AM
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Default RE: 1/5.3 Horten 229


ORIGINAL: Vettster

Very Nice!!

So..How Does a plane with no vertical stab fly? Will you be using a Gyro? I know the B-2 has no tail either..but there is a massive computer hard at work to keep it straight and level.

Its mostly all in the design, sweep back, airfoil and washout. There are some oddities with the Horten though that the EDF's require a thrust tube extension to the TE of the wing. No one really know's why as the Turbine versions in this size don't need that extension, we plan to find out why the EDF's do and to hopefully eliminate them on ours.