Space Cowboy's Flying Wing [prototyping]

[Guest Space Cowboy]

The day's work on a very rough sketch.

http://youtu.be/ezWh97kqIpE

[Wambo333]

Very nice shape

I also recently built a flying wing and would appreciate if you look it up

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/89308-Moth-Mk-IV-Flying-Wing

[Guest Space Cowboy]

Thanks Will do!

[Guest Space Cowboy]

I am like you I have to do a lot of tweaks to get things working. Sometimes I decide to rebuild it from scratch, sometimes more than once!. In fact, this model here - I know for a fact I will be rebuilding the wing from scratch, but I had to get started, to start somewhere. I actually started over from zero 3 times on this today - just for these wings. I have never done curved wings before.

[Roflcopterkklol]

How are you going with the maneuverability problems flying wings have?

I ended up abandoning the entire wing completely and coming up with a working split wing system.

Just impossible to stop stalling on a super glider otherwise.

[Guest Space Cowboy]

Right now if you look at it I have canards and elevators near the middle. That helps a lot.

[Roflcopterkklol]

Yeah, the problem i found though is getting the plane to be able to do high speed banking turns then suddenly change direction without stalling uncontrollably, front of the plane needs about 50% less lift than the rear produces for bigger tail planes to stop the stalling.

Also needed to add angled control surfaces at the rear to catch the plane when going from banking left to banking right.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/90964-Roflcopterkklol-Industries-Super-glider-pack

If you were interested, The first plane on that list is what i ended up with after 6 re designs on my flying wing, the second plane was really just to see how high and how big this design could be made while still being functional.

Idk maybe im trying to say its too hard to get the wing not to stall lol, i really want to see it done though.

Edited August 19, 2014 by Roflcopterkklol