[john70t]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Here is a rundown on why the Starship didn't do better.

https://airfactsjournal.com/2018/01/why-the-starship-was-such-a-disaster/

Interesting article.
It behooves this 'armchair engineer' why they didn't make the entire canard rotate-able instead of front ailerons which create nothing but turbulence and stall.
(and why not make a smaller surface for small corrections or to bleed air?)

Roll rate could be vastly improved with a combination of opposite action...both front and back...depending on speed..AOA..and pilot input.

And exhausting a turbine directly into the root of a propeller?
There seems to be a lot of energy wasted there.