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Sto caricando le informazioni... Only the Wing: Reimar Horten's Epic Quest to Stabilize and Control the All-Wing Aircraft (2011)di Russell E. Lee
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. What one has here is a dispassionate analysis of just what Reimar Horten's flying wings were capable of, separated from the mythology of German wonder weapons that arrived too late to really impact the war. Paying close attention to Horten's efforts to refine the aerodynamics of all-wing aircraft, Lee concludes that the man made some real advances but these were still insufficient to truly transcend the built-in instability of the platform prior to the development of fly-by-wire technology. Lee also notes that Horten was sometimes his own worst enemy, having the true-believer's unwillingness to listen to the bad news about some of his enthusiasms. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Reissued in paperback with a revised and expanded Introduction: In the late 1920s, Reimar Horten began experimenting with flying models equipped with fuselages, stabilizers, rudders, and elevators, but his life's work involved systematically removing these components from models until he could achieve flight with only the wing. Not only were pure wings more difficult to design with the stability and controls needed to fly, they were harder to place in practical roles not already filled by conventional aircraft operating for less support and lower operational costs. Always seeking to increase performance and efficiency, Horten adopted a multidisciplinary approach after flying his first piloted wing in 1933, eventually breaking new ground in cockpit design and construction materials. His most important innovation was the unique pattern he developed to distribute lift over his wings, the result of his efforts to refine the aerodynamic control of all-wing aircraft, often while working alone and in difficult circumstances. Two days after Horten passed away in 1993, the Royal Aeronautical Society awarded him the British Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Aeronautics. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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