Lifting body fighter

[THEJETDEMON 0]

wonder what it would be like to have a lifting body fighter

Edited December 11, 2008 by THEJETDEMON

[ironroad 218]

wonder what it would be like to have a lifting body fighter

 

 

The F-14

[THEJETDEMON 0]

though you have a point I came up with the XF-24A *evil genius laugh*

Edited December 11, 2008 by THEJETDEMON

[charlielima 328]

Looks cool already. Probably not very maneuverable.

Meet you halfway?

 

:ph34r: CL

[zmatt 2]

Lifting bodies aren't very stable, so I doubt they would make good fighters. Also the x-24 was rocket powered so its radius was limited to something like 50 miles. You would have to make major modifications to make it practical. And I don't mean strapping sidewinders on it :P

[THEJETDEMON 0]

Lifting bodies aren't very stable, so I doubt they would make good fighters. Also the x-24 was rocket powered so its radius was limited to something like 50 miles. You would have to make major modifications to make it practical. And I don't mean strapping sidewinders on it :P

 

 

then lets make one ourselves

[THEJETDEMON 0]

i have a design drawn up and ill probably scan it in TMW

 

probably could make it into a sim jet for flight simulators

Edited December 11, 2008 by THEJETDEMON

[+Julhelm 266]

You could design it with retracting wings like the Rockwell Surprise Fighter.

[THEJETDEMON 0]

You could design it with retracting wings like the Rockwell Surprise Fighter.

 

il think about it

[THEJETDEMON 0]

here it is, this design is stable and works because i built a paper 3D model and it flies perfectly.

Edited December 12, 2008 by THEJETDEMON

[THEJETDEMON 0]

photos of the craft, i hope to get a test flight video soon, though it works phenomenally the photos are fuzzy

Edited December 12, 2008 by THEJETDEMON

[THEJETDEMON 0]

anybody have their own designs?

[charlielima 328]

Huh. It's a Disphenoid with a fan tail. A skinny flying wing.I notice with flying wings and the new UCAVs there is not a defined point where the fuselage ends and the wings start.

:ph34r: CL

Edited December 12, 2008 by charlielima

[THEJETDEMON 0]

Huh. It's a Disphenoid with a fan tail. A skinny flying wing.I notice with flying wings and the new UCAVs there is not a defined point where the fuselage ends and the wings start.

:ph34r: CL

 

 

exactly

[+Zurawski 33]

Wasen't there a big bad-ass what-if bird someone made for the MSFS series that was "supposed to be converted oveer to the thirwire engine at one time that looked like that elongated diamond-shaped one?

[THEJETDEMON 0]

Wasen't there a big bad-ass what-if bird someone made for the MSFS series that was "supposed to be converted oveer to the thirwire engine at one time that looked like that elongated diamond-shaped one?

 

not that i can recall

[TX3RN0BILL 3]

Whoa... that looks like a Micromachine Executor Super Star Destroyer!!! Or almost... would be a cool "what-if" fighter to have for SF/WoV/WoE...

Edited December 16, 2008 by TX3RN0BILL

[THEJETDEMON 0]

Whoa... that looks like a Micromachine Executor Super Star Destroyer!!! Or almost... would be a cool "what-if" fighter to have for SF/WoV/WoE...

 

 

u have a point. :yes:

[+Gunrunner 314]

Lifting bodies aren't very stable, so I doubt they would make good fighters.

A refresher just in case you lost the plot of the last 30 years in fighter planes technology...

 

Quite a few major air superiority/interception planes designed these last 30 years have been naturally unstable on purpose (F-16, F-18, F-22, Mirage 2000, Rafale, Gripen, Typhoon, MiG-29, Su-27) as a way to increase manoeuvrability.

Fly-by-wire being most of the time what stands between a plane actually doing what the pilot wants and actually doing exactly the opposite, or just crashing to the ground in interesting ways.

[i90807065 0]

Fly-by-wire being most of the time what stands between a plane actually doing what the pilot wants and actually doing exactly the opposite, or just crashing to the ground in interesting ways.

 

Well why does that sound familiar?

 

 

Hope this project ends well...unlike some of mine...and the aforementioned...

Edited December 17, 2008 by i90807065

[THEJETDEMON 0]

Well why does that sound familiar?

 

 

Hope this project ends well...unlike some of mine...and the aforementioned...

 

 

what were some of your projects

[i90807065 0]

Lets see:

1) Super Destroyer-think nimitz carrier multiplied by the largest destroyer

2) CFA-44

3) Terrains-couldnt get em started

4) Yellow SQN skins

5) Mobius skin-still WIP

6) Taro8's F-15-hopefullly will be able to that soon

7) Aigaion

8) Aurora (high altitude spy-bomber)

9) Arkbird

10) X-31

11) XF-22

12) XF-18

13) ADFX-02

14) "Classified"-This isnt even completely thought up yet, but know itll give Aim-120s a hard time

 

 

As for 14, ill have a design soon, i guess technically i cant say they all didnt end well...

Edited December 17, 2008 by i90807065

[THEJETDEMON 0]

Lets see:

1) Super Destroyer-think nimitz carrier multiplied by the largest destroyer

2) CFA-44

3) Terrains-couldnt get em started

4) Yellow SQN skins

5) Mobius skin-still WIP

6) Taro8's F-15-hopefullly will be able to that soon

7) Aigaion

8) Aurora (high altitude spy-bomber)

9) Arkbird

10) X-31

11) XF-22

12) XF-18

13) ADFX-02

14) "Classified"-This isnt even completely thought up yet, but know itll give Aim-120s a hard time

 

 

As for 14, ill have a design soon, i guess technically i cant say they all didnt end well...

 

Cant wait to see it

[charlielima 328]

I was going to get in the frey with Maneuverability vs Stability. High wing loading vs low wingloading but I thought this would be more interesting:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/x-39.htm

Check it out. I'm trying to figure out the difference between a narrow flying wing and a wide lifting body, (not the ones in a gym) but I think the UCAVs are where the concept is applied for real. widening the body gives more space for weps. I think every body wants more Weps.

:ph34r: CL

Edited December 19, 2008 by charlielima

[Rambler 1-1 9]

The only problem I can think of about a lifting body fighter is that it would be very difficult for it to hold Gs unless you were at a very high speed. Otherwise the thing would just pile on the AOA instead of actually turning on the lift vector.