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Supersonic flying wing aircraft to be able to vary sweep of its wing.(METALS POLYMERS CERAMICS)
Advanced Materials & Processes, May, 2006
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems, El Segundo, Calif., for the first phase of its Oblique Flying Wing program, which aims to design and conduct flight tests of an experimental tailless, supersonic, variable-sweep flying wing.
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DARPA's goal is to demonstrate that such aircraft are feasible so that similar designs can be considered for future military missions. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The oblique flying wing would vary its wing sweep (the angle of the wing's leading edge relative to the direction of ...
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