The patent application relates to an improvement to a fixed-wing airborne vehicle which results in significant delay drag rise well into the transonic regime. The fundamental features of the improvement include: fixedly skewing the wings at 45 degrees; shaping the outboard ends of the wing tips so that the trailing edge of the forwardly disposed wing is swept forwardly and the leading edge is straight and unswept, and so that the leading edge of the rearwardly disposed wing is swept rearwardly and the trailing edge is straight and unswept. It also blends the leading and the trailing edges of the planform, so as to increase the local chord and control the longitudinal position of the maximum thickness in the root area (i.e., at the interface of the inboard tip end of each wing with the fuselage.


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    Title :

    Fixed Skewed Wing Airborne Vehicle


    Contributors:
    R. D. Child (author)

    Publication date :

    1977


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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