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unusual facts about flying wing



Airborne Edge

The Airborne Edge is a line of Australian two-seat flying wing ultralight trikes designed and produced by Airborne Windsports of Redhead, New South Wales.

Cosmos Phase II

The Cosmos Phase II and Phase III are a series of French two-seat flying wing ultralight trikes that were produced by Cosmos ULM of Fontaine-lès-Dijon and now by Cosmos Ultralight of Puente de Ixtla, Mexico.

Forbes Field Air National Guard Base

It was renamed in honor of Major Daniel Forbes, an Air Force test pilot from Carbondale, Kansas who was killed in a crash of a Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing, which took the lives of all five crew members.

Robert Kronfeld

Post war, as Chief Test Pilot for General Aircraft, he was killed in the crash of an experimental flying wing glider - the General Aircraft GAL 56 (TS507) - during stalling trials, at Lower Froyle after taking-off from Lasham Airfield.

Tricycle landing gear

Waldo Waterman's 1929 tailless Whatsit was one of the first to have a steerable nose wheel.


see also

Nigel Tangye

1936: Things to Come (aeronautical advisor; designer of the 1970 Type swallow-winged aeroplane, Raymond Massey’s one man flying wing from the film