ORIGINAL: micro_builder
what i find interesting about the Flings design is that most flying wings have at least some amount of reflex in the LE and TE to give it some stability. the fling doesnt have either and is still quite stable, i'm guessing its got something to do with the dihedral mated up to the anhedral of the wing tips (though anhedral usually creates a less stable craft). interesting that the larger it gets the more reflex it seems to need, at least on the TE side. i think having the wingtips down more would help stability, acting as a rudder of sorts.
nick
The basic design I found I lifted from Airplane News Jan 42.
It's a Northrup design I don't think ever was built. At least I can't find
anything like this prototype.
(notice the lil rudder) you may want to add the rudder under the plane.
The lil foamie I built of it had the usual flyingwing problems. It jus fluttered
about no matter what I did. It needed a stab but after adding the canard
forward it didn't look like a flying wing anymore. So I went Star Trek on it
and added a bridge. More like a canard cheat.
I can see why it wasn't built in its day. Unstable without the present technology
of computers. Not to mention the problems you would have in a full scale
model. Not to mention the problems making it an AA conversion.
edit: I'm having no luck at all making a forward swept flyingwing (FSFW?)
version with a bridge. Sorry micro, but it's just too unstable.