Flying Saucer...

[odin]

And what the hell does a flying wing have to do with stealth technology. :lol:

[blobrana]

Hum,
so, no one know anything about this new invention?

[Red_Melons]

@odin:

what the hell does a flying wing have to do with stealth technology

(there should have been a question mark at the end by the way)

Wikipedia - Flying Wing

Interest in the flying wing configuration was renewed in the 1980s as a way to design aircraft with low radar reflection cross-sections.Stealth technology relies on shapes which only reflect radar waves in certain directions, thus making the aircraft hard to detect unless the radar receiver is at a specific position relative to the aircraft - a position that changes continuously as the aircraft moves. The tailplanes and engine intakes of a conventional jet, and especially its round fuselage, reflect radar in all directions, while the flat and nearly-horizontal surface of a flying wing only reflects radar in a couple of specific directions. In addition, if the edges of the wings are straight rather than curved, then they only reflect radar at angles perpendicular to these straight segments, rather than in all directions. This approach eventually led to the Northrop B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. In this case, the aerodynamic advantages of the flying wing are not the primary needs. However, modern computer-controlled fly-by-wire systems allowed for many of the aerodynamic drawbacks of the flying wing to be minimized, making for an efficient and (artifically) stable long-range bomber.

I hope that helps to answer your question.

[Red_Melons]

@blobrana

no one know anything about this new invention?

I think the problem is that claims like this are made regularly, throughout the world:

Vladivostok News
Duanyuan, China

[Hyperspeed]

Any old monkey could fly an F117a because it can't be controlled unless the computer is there doing the maths. It's so un-aerodynamic a simple blast of EMF could be sufficient to take out the computer and thus down the plane.

There was another Russian flying wing that looked a bit like the UFO from Independance Day, a sort of pointed disc with counter-rotating turbine and a shape that induced lift. I think it was stored in some old hangar used for that giant seaplane/bomber the communists built.

Those petrol hoverboards would really 'take off' if they hit the shops though.

;-)

[Hyperspeed]

http://www.digital-audio.net/_aude/animan/uranus.mp3
http://www.digital-audio.net/_aude/animan/yakkos_universe.mp3


EDIT:
http://www.mickeyrooney.com/

[Tigger]

And what the hell does a flying wing have to do with stealth technology.

Pretty much nothing, though Wikapedia is spreading the old rumor again I see.   Though the B2s airframe owes homage to previous Northrop efforts B-35 in particular, in reality the reason both the B2 & the cancelled A12 used the type of airframe is tests done on the SR71 and its variants during the Vietnam war, until it turns a 71 is virtually invisable.     In addition, the F-117, a much more successful stealth aircraft is based all on Russian Mathematics that were probably accidentally published.  Ben Richs book has that and alot more if you are really interested.
     -Tig

   

[Doobrey]

Hyperspeed wrote:
... I think it was stored in some old hangar used for that giant seaplane/bomber the communists built.

Do you mean those giant ekranoplans? I'd like to see them try to use one as a bomber..they only 'flew' a couple of metres above sea level :lol:

[asian1]

Is this related to the project?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Townsend_Brown

There is an experiment in Canada that send electric power to airplane using microwave: SHARP project.

http://www.crc.ca/en/html/crc/home/mediadesk/sharp.html

[blobrana]

Hum,
i remembered he was a British inventor.
And he was  in negotiations with  three  foreign defence departments to develop the device.

(Though, personally, if it were me,  i would sell it to a toy manufacturer - as it would make a good indoor toy...)

[asian1]

> Toys

There are self levelling Gyros with 4 rotors:

http://www.airdyn.com/roswell.shtml

http://www.silverlit.com/