lying Sites - R/C Aero Portal - MELLOR AVIATION
... releases from Mellor Aviation is the 'Swift' The Swift is an all round general purpose
48" span slope soarer. The swept planform flying wing has inherently low ...
www.flyingsites.co.uk/shopfront/archive/melloravi.htm

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More on flying wings.

Marske Flying Wings Home Page, Jim Marske, Marske Monarch, Marske ...
Laviniu Tirca 05/28/04 Gytis Tamilaitis 11/21/04. Links: The flying wings of Fauvel, Mat Redsell, Pilot doing a tuft test June 24, 2004. ... Flying Wings. ...
www.continuo.com/marske/

YB-49 Flying Wing
... Northrop\'s Flying Wing would get an even more radical makeover, its engines replaced by eight turbojets, along with a new designation: the B-49. ...
www.airspacemag.com/asm/Web/Site/QT/flyingwing.html

Trimming flying wings
Trimming flying wings. The goal in trimming a flying wing is to get the center of gravity as far aft as possible and still maintain stable control over pitch. ...
www.aerofoam.com/wngtrmpg.html

Howstuffworks \"How Flying Wings Will Work\"
... The new blended-wing body, or \"flying wing,\" design does away with the cigar-shaped fuselage and tail section that have been mainstays of modern passenger ...
travel.howstuffworks.com/flying-wing.htm

an aircraft with its longitudinal control surfaces incorporated in the main plane

Reference Multilingual Aeronautical Dictionary(AGARD,1980)


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The idea of tailless design by itself is low risk. Tailless aircraft have flown successfully since the 1940s. Having the advanced FCS technologies ready for the FATE program depends on continued funding of the RESTORE program. Also, advanced FCS processor technologies are required for the integrated/adaptive controls (The C-90 chip is slated for availability in 1998.)
The all-moving wing tip and spoiler-slot-deflector require transonic wind tunnel testing to validate their full envelope effectiveness. Research of prior data indicate that these controls should remain effective at transonic speeds. However, the current applications of these controls (i.e., for yaw power) have never been tested at transonic Mach numbers.
As a fallback position, if the integrated/adaptive controls technologies are not available for FATE, the vehicle could be developed and flown by using conventional fly-by-wire systems in which a more restrictive flight envelope may be imposed. If the innovative controls are not ready or do not prove applicable to the FATE vehicle, more conventional tailless controls, like a clamshell or a spoiler, could be used.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/docs/fatereport/tsld03...



http://www.desktopaero.com/appliedaero/configuration/tailles...
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/docs/fatereport/tsld02...

It really is called this. There was even music on the website I found! I checked several sites; they all give the same term.

At the beginning of 1939, Alexander Lippisch arrives at the firm Messerschmitt Aircraft Company to Augsburg with the majority of his/her colleagues. In September 1941, Wurster designs the hang-glider P.08.01. the sweptback wing contained the armoured fuel tanks, fuel which could be released if need be. Four engines dB 615 Daimler Benz (or dB 613) gone up on the back edge of the wing; the radiators were placed ahead in the edge of the wing. An enormous bomb bay in the center of the fuselage could transform P.08.01 into airfreighter. The cockpit was pressurized and the defensive armament was ordered remotely (in the nose with the back).


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Here\'s something more modern. Read right to the last paragraph - lots of info there:
Sun-H2, the plane with intelligent energy
2004. Substantial technical progress and the conclusions of a positive preliminary expertise decide the contractors Bernard Gosselet and Christian Van Houtte to update the project.
This last was validated by an in-depth study, both for the air vector the electric motorization.
The positive results make it possible to consider, with a sufficient safety margin the construction of a plane \"with emission zero\".

The engine is supplied with the mixed electricity of origin:
On the one hand hydrogen to supply a fuel cell in order to ensure the power necessary to the rise in altitude, and for the night flight. In addition produced solar energy the day by the photovoltaic cells, for the level flight.

The plane of 5 night and a 5 day endurance can traverse a distance from 20.000 kms.
The wing of a scale of 26,5 meters will have a surface of 60 m² on the suction face to receive solar energy. The POD, cabin in the shape of water drop, will join the centre of gravity under the wing. This last will be pressurized, heated and equipped with all the avionics and the instrumentation dedicated to the communications, controls, instructions, automatisms of piloting and with the energy management.

The aerodynamic concept most suitable is that of the hang-glider Swift \"out of arrow\" of recent creation. The trailing edge of this wing offers a progressive constant twist. It ensures a permanent stability to him and authorizes the absence of fuselage and plan of depth, parasitic vector of trail.
Other concepts of construction to the empty weight increasingly heavier do not authorize to consider such a project. A comparative study of various aerodynamic models confirmed: the hang-glider of Swift type ensures the complete respect of the specifications.