Here's the opinion of some smartass kid who barely knows about powered delta wings
to me giros are somewhat like cheating, yeh know, being all stressed out about modern fighters and bombers robbing the pilots' job to fly themselves (i want to go to the air farce, but im scared UCAVs will take my future job away, that's all.)
I've been thinking, since slope flying wings like my Raider from wing warrior are inherently stable, even with only one winglet on...if flying wings are unstable without winglets, then i would consider safe asking these question:
Shouldnt some form of stabilators inside the intake of the engines provide some sort of stability? let's say an arfioled "X" just inside the intake. it would probably help.
it would be a good idea as well to have another simetrically airfoiled X just before the exhaust ends, and allowing control surfaces on the latter X, something like thrust vectoring, but much simpler--the exhaust X would serve as tail feathers as well as a horizontal and vertical satbilator.
There would be problems, i imagine, such as a small surface area and the fact that the exhaust air would be corckscrewing on its way out of the duct....
Well, that's a sugestion from someone who doesn't really sympathize with pilot aides--especially self-stabilizing planes [sm=idea.gif]