Message from @Uksio
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Though the F-14 only has Variable Sweep wings, not switchblade
to fit more on an aircraft carrier
or at all
Ew
that thing flies more efficiently than your usual plane though
It's sort of a biplane
lack of wingtip vortecies makes the laminar flow continuous
But uglier
How would that respond to crosswinds
You've basically got two giant rudders on the sides of the plane
edgy
I see that the devil has infected this computer with a virus
nazis also came up with an annular wing
Albeit they were not the first
See that looks even worse, at least that other plane had an elliptical annular wing
(The nazi one looks worse)
The nazi one looks cool
I wonder if it would also use the in-wing slots as an output from a turbine bypass, would it make a difference?
I mean that would create disturbances of airflow only at the turbine inlet
But not at the wings
You've got to deal with the slow moving air over the wing and the fast moving air away from the wing, though
Too much stress on the turbine blades to be mixing those airflows
You'll end up with compressor stalls
And the turbo fan will backfire
Also requires maintenance more often than when the engines are just offset from the wing
I can't find it, but there was a proof of concpet that used "air flaps"
I.e. the bypass air from a turbine was exiting through the slots at the ends of the wings
And depending on how it was directed it acted as flaps
Basically entire read edge of a wing was acting as an exhaust
So thrust vectoring?
no