Delta has unveiled it’s new 747-400 paint scheme. I knew it was going to look nice, but I’m stunned. This bird is beautiful!
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Now this is cool. A completely autonomous Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) RC Aircraft is demonstrated at MIT. The aircraft takes-off vertically, flies a couple laps around the room, then returns to vertical flight and lands.
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It’s pretty well known by now that this video is a fake, but it’s got the aviation world buzzing about whether or not it would actually be possible to land an aircraft with one wing. The idea being, that with an engine powerful enough as would be on an aircraft of this type, the aircraft could indeed land with one wing…at least theoretically.
Effectively, the pilot would use the vertical stabilizer for lift, and the remaining wing would become the vertical stabilizer. With the rudder now acting as an elevator and a strong lift vector from the engine itself, it seems reasonable in a theoretical environment that this would be possible. If you watch the control movements at each phase of flight, they’re consistent with what would be required to accomplish the landing.
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So I ask you readers…Is this aerodynamically possible?
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To be honest, I’m not sure if this is landing or taking off, but nonetheless, it’s how not to operate a seaplane.
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