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to: Adam
from: Monte Davis
date: 2006-06-26 03:29:08
subject: Re: Here come the dreadnoughts

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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