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Old 11th Nov 2010, 22:11
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barit1
 
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It's very easy to make a flying wing stable, IF it's a swept wing. A bit of washout in the wing makes a stabilizing couple - the outboard wing is aft, and behaves as a horizontal stabilizer.

Relatively efficient too, because the "wingtip" vortex is now inboard, and countered by the negative lift at the real tip.

I learned this lesson building model gliders as a pre-teen.
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