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Originally Posted by svandamme
I don't get it, it's supposed to fly at 60000 feet at 450 knots..
With a V12 Diesel driving that tiny propeller and tiny wings???
I'm calling BS on that.
Laminar wings aren't a new invention.. P51 mustang had wings like that.
Didn't go to 60k feet tho.. despite 3 times more horsepower and an 11 feet prop
I would expect this thing to have vicious stall characteristics without air going over it's horizontal stabs
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Agree.
The tube is not a lifting body so all the lift stresses are on the wings.
Probably more efficient at AOA and punching through minor gusts, but IDK. Wing tech is enormous.
But the elevators look like they are the full rotatable kind.
Same as the F-4 Phantom. The flying brick.
(Sorry I forgot the proper name, and Bing is not providing viable non-wikipedia results today, and I won't be steered.)
They are right in front of the prop...
Those huge elevators must create enormous turbulence right in front of that little tiny overpowered prop at high altitude and already low pressure..
It must be like slapping a sheet of cardboard on a fan.