Dont hit the black buttons or it will do funny things

Controls

Act. 1 - Engine starter. Wait until the green light comes on, then you'll be good to go. Water injection will kick in after some delay at 100% throttle, indicated by the red light.
Act. 2 - Canopy
Act. 8 - Lock nosewheel steering
Heavy use of trim is required to maintain level flight without manual control.

Description

The Convair XF-92A, unofficially nicknamed "Dart", was a single engine delta-wing demonstrator built in 1948 using the delta designed by Alexander Lippisch. This wing, however was not a standard Lippisch thick delta, but an entirely new concept altogether. When completed on the 18th of September in 1948, it became the first thin-winged delta to fly, and the first delta wing jet in the world. It featured groundbreaking technologies such as a hydraulic almost fly-by-wire system that applied force to the stick to direct the pilot in making corrections as not to over-G or lose control of the aircraft. The aircraft reached a top speed of 718mph in level flight at 50,000ft, and when flown by Chuck Yeager attained Mach 1.05 in a dive. It was also able to pull over 30 degrees of angle of attack and land at 67mph, 100mph less than Convair predicted. Low speed performance was phenomenal, however it was a very difficult aircraft to control as nobody had ever flown a delta winged aircraft before. As a result it was considered an undesirable aircraft to fly, and most test pilots did not like it. Yeager, however, didn't mind it and apparently had fun testing it. Originally, the aircraft used a non-afterburning Allison J33-A-21 turbojet. In 1951 it was switched to a J33-A-29 with an afterburner giving it 7500lbs of thrust. Finally, a water injected J33-A-16 was fitted with 5850lbs of dry thrust and 7,000lbs wet. The original version's elevons did not cover the entirety of the trailing edge of the wing, but that was later changed. While it was not a particularly successful aircraft, it would go on to produce the F-102 and F-106, the first area ruled delta wing fighters. The vortex generated over the sharply angled wing that provided it with the ability to maintain control at low speeds became used in other aircraft in the form of leading-edge root extensions (LERX) that artificially create this vortex over a non-delta wing to aid in low speed performance. Aircraft fitted with this type of LERX are the F-18, Su-27, and JF-17, among others. The aircraft was retired after the nose gear collapsed on landing in 1953, and it is now on display in Dayton, Ohio at the National Museum of the US Air Force.

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