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576 MPH at 50,000 Feet: Designing Britain’s Delta-Wing Vulcan

Roy Chadwick and Avro engineers defied convention, creating the radical delta-wing Vulcan. With a 100,000-pound weight limit ...
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X-29: NASA and DARPA Experimented with a ‘Backwards Wings Fighter’

Key Points and Summary – NASA and Grumman’s X-29 was a 1980s–90s technology demonstrator that flipped convention with forward-swept wings and canards to probe extreme maneuvering and ...