The first test flight may also have been the first manned object to exceed the Mach 1 as it plummeted from the clouds, for more information I direct you to the book Chasing the Demon by Dan Hampton
OMG There have been drawings of a swing wing phantom!
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/cscale,fauto,flprogressive,q80,w_800/1479936255779745424.jpg
My mother wanted to fly the F-16 in combat when she was younger. Unfortunately the Air Force wasn't letting women fly combat missions at the time. Maybe this will be the closest she can get.
@ACEPILOT109 I have heard about when joking around with my friends. If I am not mistaken it was an attempt to develop a troop delivery aircraft for a small cost by the USAAC.
Are we limited to conventional plan forms? And what do you mean by successor do you mean like the next say Cessna 172? The reason I ask is that back in the '50s Northrop was working on flying wing aircraft like the N9M and that gave me an idea seeing as how contra-rotating propellers seemed to be all the rage at that time.
The first test flight may also have been the first manned object to exceed the Mach 1 as it plummeted from the clouds, for more information I direct you to the book Chasing the Demon by Dan Hampton
+2Someone actually made the Inflatoplane!
+1OMG There have been drawings of a swing wing phantom!
+1https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/cscale,fauto,flprogressive,q80,w_800/1479936255779745424.jpg
Hey man you gotta do what you gotta do. Perfectly fine in my book!
+1IT'S A QUICKIE Q1! Finally someone other myself attempting this!
My mother wanted to fly the F-16 in combat when she was younger. Unfortunately the Air Force wasn't letting women fly combat missions at the time. Maybe this will be the closest she can get.
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@ACEPILOT109 I have heard about when joking around with my friends. If I am not mistaken it was an attempt to develop a troop delivery aircraft for a small cost by the USAAC.
Ejector Exhaust (exhaust that puts out a very small amount of thrust)
Amazing design! Flight characteristics seem a little off for the era but seeing as it was a prototype and no one really knows how it flew. GREAT JOB!
Looks Good! I like it.
I am thinking an alternate history aircraft the Cessna had in the works...
Did you try any other methods for yaw control? Also how did you get the center of pressure at the complete rear of the wing?
I had my first flight in a 1948 Cessna 140! I LOVE THIS THING (even though I haven't flown it yet)
@ND40X Okay thank you very much I believe I have my design formulated in my head. Now time to find time to work on it.
Are we limited to conventional plan forms? And what do you mean by successor do you mean like the next say Cessna 172? The reason I ask is that back in the '50s Northrop was working on flying wing aircraft like the N9M and that gave me an idea seeing as how contra-rotating propellers seemed to be all the rage at that time.