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From: Monte Davis
Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:
>But just before the craft breaks the sound barrier, its single wing will
>swivel around 60 degrees..
Cool concept, as it has been for decades. The devil is -- as it has been
for decades with every other form of swing wing -- in getting a reliable
mechanism at a tolerable weight. You don't realize how weight-optimized a
fixed-wing airframe is for fixed-wing stresses until you put in a pivot...
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