Greetings. I'd like to present some ideas around a design that I've been working on, on and off, for a little over ten years now. I want to say, up front, that not a single piece of this aircraft currently exists -- some analysis has been done, but this is a pure paper design today.
The design is for a low aspect ratio, statically unstable flying wing. I'm going to talk about all three of those design characteristics in isolation first, and then talk about why I think they combine so nicely. I will defer talking about the specific mission I'm designing around until a later post; for now, we'll keep the concepts abstract. Similarly, unless necessary for understanding I'll skip numbers that arise from detailed design, although I'm glad to discuss them later.
I'm going to do this as a few posts to make reading and managing it easier.
The design is for a low aspect ratio, statically unstable flying wing. I'm going to talk about all three of those design characteristics in isolation first, and then talk about why I think they combine so nicely. I will defer talking about the specific mission I'm designing around until a later post; for now, we'll keep the concepts abstract. Similarly, unless necessary for understanding I'll skip numbers that arise from detailed design, although I'm glad to discuss them later.
I'm going to do this as a few posts to make reading and managing it easier.