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Originally Posted by freebeard
As seen in the opening scene of Six Million Dollar Man............
It drops like a steerable rock.
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Cool, I've never seen the unique canopy in operation before.
Similar video, but with highly informative audio:
Aerohead, I've never read a description of lift before on these craft as "
delta-wing-like attached vortices for generating lift". Reminds me of F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter flight/lift descriptions. Thank you for the description.
These "over-wing vortices" are something I'd like to see a wind tunnel video of, I may have to look that up one day.
Such a video may answer why the early lifting bodies were upside down foil shapes, and the latter ones just the opposite with curve on top not the bottom. Part of the mystery that my brain has never been able to fully process. The key must be these over the body/wing vortices combined with the ridiculous angle of attack.
EDIT: Freebird soundtrack,
and you know this bird cannot change aaaaaaaaaa change............
At the 6:00 mark you can see the landing speed is similar to the Douglas Skyray chase plane's stall speed.
Good footage otherwise, much of it seen already in the other two videos but very crisp.