#PlaneAlert ICAO: #390EFB Tail: #FPDHZ
Owner: #Private
Aircraft: #Hubertus Verhees Delta 2B
2025-04-12 11:07:46 CEST
#ZZZZ #FlyingWing #NopeMobile #FlyingDorito https://www.verheesengineering.com/d2-twoseater/
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#PlaneAlert ICAO: #390EFB Tail: #FPDHZ Flt: #FPDHZ
Owner: #Private
Aircraft: #Hubertus Verhees Delta 2B
2025-03-21 14:27:25 CET
#ZZZZ #FlyingWing #NopeMobile #FlyingDorito https://www.verheesengineering.com/d2-twoseater/
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MMMMFF Mon 06 Jan 2025
• Brush: #Simpson Chubby 2 Manchurian
• Razor: #GEM #Micromatic #FlyingWing
• Blade: #Personna GEM PTFE
• Lather: #HouseOfMammoth Mood Indigo
• Post: #AbbateYLaMantia Koké
• Frag: #HouseOfMammoth / #NobleOtter / #DeclarationGrooming Cerberus
This scent combo is a bit of a miss. The strong pear in Koké overwhelmed the more delicate Mindigo rather than integrating itself with the boozy blueberry. LIve and learn.
The Northrop JB-1A "Bat" or "Thunderbug" was a prototype "jet bomb" – in effect, a surface-to-surface #cruiseMissile – developed in the United States during World War II. The JB-1A was also an early jet aircraft aircraft, with a radical #flyingWing planform. In August 1942, a #FieselerFi103, code name Flakzielgerät-43 (FGZ-43) – the piloted prototype of the German #V1FlyingBomb – crashed on the Danish island of Bornholm. While the island was under German occupation.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a picture of these together, so here is mine:
The GEM Micromatic lineup, with all generations AFAIK. If you know of any GEM Micromatic that is not in this picture, please let me know!
From right to left, MMOC gen 1 (no blade bumps), MMOC gen 2 (blade bumps), Clog-Pruf gen 1 (13 big teeth), Clog-Pruf gen 2 “Peerless” (17 small teeth), Flying Wing
#Wetshaving #GEM #GEMRazor #SafetyRazor #SingleEdge #MMOC #OCMM #Ockmock #ClogPruf #ClogPrufPeerless #FlyingWing
Horten Ho III h #photography #1937 #1944 #airandspace #aircraft #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #germany #hortenhiii #planes #reimarhorten #smithsonian #walterhorten #flyingwing #highlight #sailplane #stevenfudvarhazycenter (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/27575119914
#USAirForce's new #B21Raider #flyingwing #bomber takes first flight
This is the next step in the rolling out a new fleet of #longrange #nuclearcapable #stealthbombers built by #NorthropGrumman Corp
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Horten Ho III h #photography #1937 #1944 #airandspace #aircraft #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #germany #hortenhiii #planes #reimarhorten #smithsonian #walterhorten #flyingwing #highlight #sailplane #stevenfudvarhazycenter (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/27575119914
#MammothMonday Micro Matic Flying Flashback
Razor: #GEM #Micromatic #FlyingWing
Blade: #Personna GEM PTFE
Brush: #Zenith B21
Lather: #HouseOfMammoth Mood Indigo
Aftershave: #DeclarationGrooming Massacre of the Innocents splash
Haven't used a Flying Wing for Mammoth Monday in a minute. Still a razor I enjoy.
Mindigo was a good choice for tonight. So good.
Horten Ho III #photography #1937 #1944 #airandspace #aircraft #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #germany #hortenhiii #planes #reimarhorten #smithsonian #walterhorten #flyingwing #highlight #sailplane #stevenfudvarhazycenter (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28087147952
The #BlendedWing is much more efficient. Kinda looks neat too
#BWB
#aircraft
#FlyingWing
How the Fuel-Efficient ‘Flying V’ Airplane Could Replace Jumbo Jets – Robb Report
The 315-passenger jet flies like other commercial airliners its size, according to recent tests, but is 20 percent more fuel efficient. Plus, it just looks a lot cooler.
From Tube And Wing To Just Wing: The Future Of Airliners
Airliners have become an unremarkable part of modern life, but unless you happen to be an aircraft enthusiast, you'd be forgiven for thinking the latest Airbus model looks more or less the same as the Boeing 707 that ushered in the Jet Age. But that might soon change, with blended wing airliners looking like the next step in air travel efficiency. In the video after the break, [Real Engineering] takes us on a fascinating tour of the past and possible future of jet airliners.
Contemporary airliners all still follow the same old "tube and wing" design, but have become vastly more efficient. The latest jetliners burn almost 50% less fuel per passenger-km than they did 50 years ago. This is thanks to better engines, improved aerodynamics, reduced weight, and a vast array of other, often invisible changes. However, it's looking like a more drastic change is needed to keep the progress going, and NASA, Boeing, and Airbus are all betting on blended wing designs to do this.
Blended wing aircraft are basically flying wings, where the cargo-carrying section of aircraft is shorter, wider, and produces lift. This layout can be used to increase the aircraft's internal volume, and improve aerodynamic losses, by eliminating the tail. Research shows that blended wing design could reduce fuel consumption by as much as 27%. Since load and produced lift are spread more evenly along the entire width of the aircraft, it also reduces the amount of structural reinforcement required for the wings, especially at the root. The large internal volumes also allow other power sources, like hydrogen fuel cells to be used.
Blended wing aircraft are not without challenges. They are inherently unstable and require complex control systems to fly. These control systems depend on sensors, actuators, and software to work properly, and require multiple levels of redundancy. The omission of these redundancies ultimately led to the 2008 crash of a B-2 bomber, and the more recent fatal crashes of Boeing's 737 MAX airliners. Also, unlike tubular fuselages, blended wing designs are not ideal pressure vessels. However, this is not a major problem thanks to the availability of carbon composite materials to create strong, lightweight structures.
With aircraft technology moving as fast as ever, we look forward to seeing what the future will bring. Whether it's personal rotorcraft or commercial space flight, it sure won't be boring.
#transportationhacks #airliner #controlsystems #flyingwing #realengineering
Eliminate Vertical Stabiliser with ArduPlane
Flying wings are popular options for fixed-wing FPV flying, but they have one rather annoying characteristic: yaw wag. The flying wing will wobble on the yaw axis while flying, and this side-to-side movement is visible on the pilot's FPV video feed. With a combination of split rudders and ArduPilot, [Think Flight] eliminated wing wag without using any vertical stabilizers.
Yaw wag usually occurs on flying wings that use a pair of small winglets instead of a large vertical stabilizer on the centerline. Split rudders, also known as differential spoilers, can be used for active yaw control by increasing drag on either wing independently. However, this requires very rapid corrections that are very difficult to do manually, so this is where ArduPilot comes in. [Think Flight] used its yaw dampening feature in combination with differential spoilers to completely eliminate vertical stabilizers and yaw wag. This is the same technique used on the B-2 stealth bomber to avoid radar reflecting vertical stabilizers. [Think Flight] also used these clamshells spoilers as elevons.
Using XFLR5 airfoil analysis software, [Think Flight] designed built a pair of flying wings to use these features. The first was successful in eliminating yaw wag, but exhibited some instability on the roll axis. After taking a closer look at the design with XFLR5, he found air it predicted that airflow would separate from the bottom surface of the wing at low angles of attack. After fixing this issue, he built a V2 to closely match the looks of the B2 bomber. Both aircraft were cut from EPP foam with an interesting-looking CNC hot wire cutter and laminated with Kevlar for strength.
ArduPilot is an incredibly powerful open source autopilot system that is constantly evolving. We've recently seen it used on an incredible 10 hour 45 minute electric RC flight, but it can also be used for ekranoplans, rovers and boats.
#dronehacks #ardupilot #electricairplane #flyingwing #rcairplane
