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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Scale Models => Topic started by: john e. holliday on October 27, 2012, 09:08:19 AM
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What some people will do for experimentation. I think they literally destroyed the looks of what I thought was one beautiful plane. The picture is courtesy of Plane-A-Day.
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That is one ugly moth........ :o
Marcus
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They were doing experimentation leading up to the X-1. They wanted to make sure that a plane with supersonic-capable airfoils and a swept-back wing would be controllable in subsonic flight -- so, they modified an existing fighter.
Note the constant-diameter plug just aft of the wing -- that's because they swept the wings back, then realized that they'd have CG problems.
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...and the ventral fin under the tail to reduce Dutch roll.
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Looks like the NACA Mustang in the background.
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It looks like the fueselage plug also changed the incidence of the stab, they have what looks like a pair of jack screws sticking up at the leading edge at the stab / fin intersection. They maybe ground adjustable, or motor driven to preset limts for various flight profiles, hmmmmm.....
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It looks like the fueselage plug also changed the incidence of the stab, they have what looks like a pair of jack screws sticking up at the leading edge at the stab / fin intersection. They maybe ground adjustable, or motor driven to preset limts for various flight profiles, hmmmmm.....
What you are seeing is a pair of 16mm movie cameras used to look at the wings when they were tufted for air flow studies. There were also a pair of 35mm cameras on top of the canopy structure.
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What I was always disappointed about it that was the main landing gear did not retract, only the nose wheel.
Chris...