Un avion aux ailes circulaires

Amazing Stories,
s1"NARA-PBB1", Project Blue Book Archive, p. 589
L'article d'origine
L'article d'origine

Encore et encore, de nouveaux prototypes d'ailes et d'avions deviennent de plus en plus évident à mesure que le progrès les touche. Dans cet article, nous en décrivons encore un autre qui a répondu à nombre de casse-têtes et exploite des principles ignorés par beaucoup de designers. Cet avion est conçu pour être rapide, robuste et manœuvrable.

Des modèles d'avion à ailes circulaires ont été construits et testés à travers des modèles actuels disponibles en en dans la ville de San Francisco, depuis de hauts bâtiments in check on tail-spin and gliding ability. It was found impossible to "tail-spin" the circle-winged job, and its gliding ability was found to be at least four times that of any other type, with no stalling factors. They almost seemed to fly themselves!

The principles involved? Easy, when it is poluted out to you. Now many of us at some time have taken a "playing card" and held it between our fingers and flipped the card edgewise into the air? Remember how it "glid" through the air with very little of applied force? Yes, that's it: a wing designed to be almost flat with knife edges. Circular in shape, with an long opening like a flattened cooky or doughnut.

The circle design has the strongest and best pressure distributing and equaliring ability, and the weight is supported as that the pilot does not have to "tectex" every balance factor against up-and-down air drafts and sudden weight shifts from any direction.

A stream lined fuselage is ...