On Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:33:42 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Mark IV wrote:

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.



Not quite.

LOL.


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



Nonsense.

LOL.


The second YB-49 crashed during stall testing.

LOL.


Jack Northrop said it was impossible for the YB-49 to do what it actually

did.

LOLOL.

The last one crashed during high speed taxi testing from nose wheel

oscillations.

LOL.


The bombing accuracy was horrible due to directional oscillations.

LOL.


If flying wings are "intrinsically unstable", then why

did millions of years of evolution not produce birds

with vertical stabilizers.



Who said anything about vertical stabilizers and last I looked there

aren't any real airplanes that look like birds.

LOLOL!


And that was "trailing edge", not leading.



So what, it is still just babble.

LOL.


--

Mark



A flying wing may look neat, but what I said stands; flying wings are

intrinsically unstable and are only flyable with computer control.



That makes them a niche design.

LOL.