And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Most likely, only second to flying the beast.
ReplyDeleteno tail means no leverage for the elevators. the slower you go, the less force from the elevators. try to land, pull the yoke, it just gets mushy.
ReplyDeleteAll an elevator does is adjust the angle of attack. The ailerons on this aircraft are dual purpose.
DeleteJack Northrop. Ahead of his time. With fly-by-wire, it might have worked (better).
ReplyDeleteYou could play tennis on the wings
ReplyDeleteThe Horten brothers were playing with this concept in the mid 1930s.
ReplyDeletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GOB45i5BtQQ
Edwards Air Force Base was named after the man who died test piloting this work of art.....
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