Raising some questions??
01-31-2004, 12:24 PM
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RE: Raising some questions??
It flies by the same laws of physics as what governs everything else.
Low pressure air on top of the thing, high pressure air on the bottom. Just like any airplane wing or car spoiler (upside down of course).
Technically the flat top creates a low pressure zone in the shape of a big old vortex above it, which is powerful enough to suck it up in the air (at higher speeds).
Low pressure air on top of the thing, high pressure air on the bottom. Just like any airplane wing or car spoiler (upside down of course).
Technically the flat top creates a low pressure zone in the shape of a big old vortex above it, which is powerful enough to suck it up in the air (at higher speeds).
01-31-2004, 01:36 PM
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RE: Raising some questions??
It was also known as a lifting body. Strictly experimental. It did fly, more or less. It was originally intended for a re-entry vehicle for space flight. It proved too unstaale for practical application. Silvanskii gave you the tech reasons for its ability to fly. Actually I don't believe it was ever powered but tested in a gllide mode.
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RE: Raising some questions??
This was the very first lifting body made by the engineers at Dryden. The latest, if i'm not mistaken was the X24, which was dropped from an B-52 and could attain almost Mach1. These vehicles were designed mainly as predecessors to the Boeing X-20 Dynasoar and then ultimately to the Space Shuttle. Very interesting concept, but stall speed of the later models was very high, thus they could only land in Dryden's lakebed.
02-04-2004, 06:19 PM
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RE: Raising some questions??
The X-24B was a rocket powered lifting body. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/modern_flight/mf61.htm
