Tailless fighting plane
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Tailless fighting plane
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Tailless fighting plane
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FOLLOWING the plans of their aeronautics instructor, John
D. McKellar, nearly 150 students of the California State Poly-
technic School are building a new kind of tailless airplane.
The radical McKellar design calls for a “flying wing” with the
fuselage inside, and pro-
pellers at both front
and rear, making the
strange machine a com-
bination tractor-and-
pusher type. His sys-
tem of controls includes
double flaps that open
like the leaves of a door
hinge. These flaps are
pivoted horizontally
near the trailing edge
of the wing. When com-
pleted, the lightweight
craft is expected to
weigh less than 1,500
pounds. If it flies suc-
cessfully, the same de-
sign may be used for a
ten-ton military plane
carrying bombs and a
machine-gun turret. A
cut-away sketch of the
proposed military plane
is reproduced above.
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Autore secondario
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John D. McKellar (instructor)
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Lingua
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1940-05
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pagine
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73
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Diritti
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Public domain
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Archived by
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Sami Akbiyik
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
