On Jan 3, 7:11*pm, wrote:
Mark IV wrote:
Er... well, have you researched the B2 spirit
in detail ever? *Or the X47B? *Do you know what
the designers at Boeing are leaning towards
these days?
What is your point?
It's self-evident.
Flying wings are intrinsically unstable and are only flyable with computer
control no matter how much you babble about leading edges.
That's not what the people who fly them say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuIFvNA1UgU
If flying wings are "intrinsically unstable", then why
did millions of years of evolution not produce birds
with vertical stabilizers.
And that was "trailing edge", not leading.
--
Mark