"Future concept but could be the mad scientist's project" Topic
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| Cacique Caribe | 30 Oct 2009 7:46 a.m. PST |
I like!!! The war against the machines is almost here. CC |
| Brandlin | 30 Oct 2009 8:44 a.m. PST |
that's very old and the idea already scrapped. from an aesthetic perspective its interesting as the 'idea' that we all seem to have of an aircraft (or drone) having a 'fuselage' and 'wings' and 'control surfaces' slowly gets degraded over time as we understand aerodynamics better and have the techniques to form more and more complex surface shapes… |
| Top Gun Ace | 30 Oct 2009 8:56 a.m. PST |
Looks like a good idea, but with the cancellation of the F-22, I imagine the project is going to be dead. |
| Lion in the Stars | 30 Oct 2009 10:09 a.m. PST |
ehhh, looks like a single-engine version of the YF23. Not sure if it's still in the works, Lockheed likes to do white papers with some fancy CG these days more than they like to build airplanes. I thought the LM Cormorant was a lot more interesting as an aircraft. |
| Number6 | 30 Oct 2009 6:36 p.m. PST |
But the concept of unmanned and manned versions of the same airframe, configurable for different missions, is the future. |
| CmdrKiley | 31 Oct 2009 10:26 a.m. PST |
hey, is it me or does that thing look like a Starfighter from Buck Rogers? |
| Lion in the Stars | 31 Oct 2009 11:00 a.m. PST |
I dunno, number6, a cockpit requires some sacrifices in terms of center-of-gravity and stealthiness. I'd love to see what the F16 could do if you didn't have to worry about killing the pilot through over-G. I honestly think that what we're going to see in the future is going to be something like what was shown in Macross Frontier: one EW fighter controlling 3+ semi-autonomous drones, which do NOT share the same airframe. @Brandlin: it's not so much a matter of being able to make the complex shapes, it's a matter of being able to keep an airframe that literally doesn't keep the pointy end going into the wind flying through ever-more-sophisticated computer control. The P67 Bat (a McDonnell WW2 prototype high-altitude interceptor) had significant wing-body blending, and had some issues with stability because of that blending. They probably could have solved the issues with more time, but problems getting powerful enough engines and a fatal crash pretty much killed the program. |
| Pyrate Captain | 31 Oct 2009 1:00 p.m. PST |
The unmanned aerospace combat craft concept is the wave of the future. Get used to it. |
| BlackWidowPilot | 02 Nov 2009 10:05 a.m. PST |
Um, the video states that this thing would use some components of the F-22… hope to Hell they don't mean the same components that (a) kept the F-22 from operating in the rain, and (b) made the F-22 such a hopeless, shameless, hangar queen… Like the hull configuration though… make for an excellent basis for a larger sized star fighter for SD:TNM….
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