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Title: Flying Wing...with Canard!
Post by: GTX on October 26, 2010, 12:35:29 AM
Something I found in a trade mag advert:

(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi37.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe68%2FGTwiner%2FCanadian%2520MiGs%2Fcanardflyingwing.jpg&hash=bbbe0d956b8c84e9f2e2167ce305acd91349820a)

Regards,

Greg
Title: Re: Flying Wing...with Canard!
Post by: NARSES2 on October 26, 2010, 02:05:00 AM
Now I know I'm aeronauticaly challenged but wouldn't that canard structure cause problems with airflow into the engines ?
Title: Re: Flying Wing...with Canard!
Post by: Weaver on October 26, 2010, 02:12:33 AM
I'd have thought so Chris..... :unsure:

Not sure you can call that a flying wing really: more of a blended-fuselage canard.
Title: Re: Flying Wing...with Canard!
Post by: Mossie on October 26, 2010, 02:17:56 AM
Very pretty, to quote Dunc, practicallity be damned!!!  :drink: Chris, I'm not sure, but the fuselage looks like it slopes down so maybe the canards are actually lower? :unsure:

I'm looking at that join mid fuselage & I'm thinking mother & daughter.  The large flying wing mother is a first stage with the daughter being a rocket powered space plane (it does look a little bit like it's shape is suited to a lifting body).  The daughter seperates to reveal a cockpit under it's tail, off it goes up to the moon!  Maybe.... ;D
Title: Re: Flying Wing...with Canard!
Post by: pyro-manic on October 26, 2010, 09:46:21 AM
Sexytastic, whatever it is! Nice find, GTX. Where's it from?
Title: Re: Flying Wing...with Canard!
Post by: chrisonord on October 26, 2010, 09:51:07 AM
I wonder how many bombs/missiles/crates of beer that could carry then  ;D
Chris.
Title: Re: Flying Wing...with Canard!
Post by: GTX on November 27, 2010, 11:18:44 AM
Quote from: pyro-manic on October 26, 2010, 09:46:21 AM
Sexytastic, whatever it is! Nice find, GTX. Where's it from?

Sorry for the delay in answering - here is the original advert:

(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi37.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe68%2FGTwiner%2FCompositeseuropeadvert.jpg&hash=47c8182cf5ad53a0d66e02905750f1aaa7f23347)

Regards,

Greg