Canards have both important advantages and drawbacks in modern fighters. Many fighters use them, and many don't. Has anyone thought of hinged canards that fold out? They would be significantly easier to implement and maintain than other variable geometry designs, and allow a plane to have the advantages of both types of delta design. The only design to ever implement this concept that I know of was the Tu-144 supersonic airliner, which used retractable canards to maintain stability and slow the plane down on landing approach.
Also while looking at the Tu-144 I came across this modified Mig-21 that they used as a wing testbed, and I kind of want to sex it.
>>61465681Dassault did or first with the Milan
>>61465681>Has anyone thought of hinged canards that fold out?Yes.>They would be significantly easier to implement and maintain than other variable geometry designs, and allow a plane to have the advantages of both types of delta design.Barely.>>61465710This.>https://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/passion/aircraft/military-dassault-aircraft/milan/>https://youtu.be/HRfADOa5o8c?t=162
>>61465681Moving parts with complex mechanisms are always a safety concern and mainly have drawbacks, why carry the additional weight of a system you're not going to use 90% of the time? Moreover, the canards are already bad for stability, making them hinged would make them even more of a concern.
>>61465681Boeing tried adding canards to the 757 and decided they weren't worth the effort.
>>61466488checked
>>61465681>Has anyone thought of hinged canards that fold outOf course. Along with strakes that fold out.
>>61466488That's a training plane to reproduce the flight characteristics of the F-22.
>>61466488Lmao it's like it's wearing a retarded hat
>>61465692Same with BAC 221 and concorde. mig looks better imo
>>61465681>>61466462actual production aircraft:F-14 had little canards early on, they didn't do anything other than move out of their sheath at certain speeds, but they were there. You can learn more about them on "the internet".
>>61469098>"the internet".What's that then?
>>61466488This is what happens when you let AI make airplanes.
>>61469161It's a series of tubes, but not a big truck.
>>61465692MIG-21 XL <3
>>61469679Dammit.. just when I get this BBS thing mastered something new comes along. Next you're going to tell me I need to dump my IBM 360 for something newer. Cripes! It never ends..
>>61472725You could probably stick with the 360 for a bit longer, but you'll want at least 12MB of memory for the latest applications.
>>61465681>They would be significantly easier to implement and maintain than other variable geometry designs, and allow a plane to have the advantages of both types of delta designmodern materials,design, software and fluid modelling made this not a concern anymore.
>>61476360This, forget just analysis, it is now possible to perform automated high fidelity multi-point fully coupled aerostructural optimization of aircraft with hundreds of design variables in a matter of hours on a very modest supercomputer of 128 cores. Hell, you can do it on a somewhat powerful home computer in around a week.
>>61468020>flight characteristicsIts just for testing the F-22’s AESA radar.
>>61466488CheckedThe main reason they abandoned it because everyone made fun of that goofy-ass looking nigga and no one could take it seriously enough to want to fly in it
>>61472996>you'll want at least 12MB of memory640K should be enough for anyone.Nobody needs a fully semiautomatic computer with big clips.
>>61465681>Hey guis let's copy the Tu-144>16 built>3 years in passenger service>2 crashesLol, no, let's not listen to Russians OP
>>61469098Those were damn cool on the F-14. Shame they got deleted. Much like it is a shame the F-14 never realized its full potential because the Navy and the DoD are retarded.
*ahem*
>>61465681ofc it's been thought of, drawn out, and archived awaythe issue is will it work when someone fires back? will you be able to maintain it in a foreign country? will you be able to maintain it long term? etc etc
