STATIC MARGIN CONTROL FOR TAILLESS FLIGHT

Authors

  • R. Huyssen
  • C. Crosby
  • E. Mathews

Keywords:

Aerodynamics, Structures, Design

Abstract

Tailless flight has been with us since the first days of human aviation. A great variety of tailless designs have shown their viability but the idea gradually lost ground to the tailed or Penaud type aircraft. Better performance and handling of the tailed configuration has made it the dominant design. However, tailless flight has great performance potential. Tailless flight can evidently be successful yet it seems to have some shortcomings in human aviation. As the layout of birds such as the seagull or the albaiross evidently holds great poiential for tailless flitht, the option of development a full scale glider of that form was investigated in a research projectt at the University of Pretoria.

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (1996)

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