quote:Interestingly, all the supersonic transport designs of the era (Concorde,Tu-144, B2707, L2000) can trace their ancestry back to NASA (NACA?) public-domain studies of the late fifties, that demonstrated the advantages of a slender delta for a supersonic transport aircraft.unquote
You guys are making me look out all the books/reports on Concorde that I had filed long ago!
I think there are a lot of guys who used to work at Farnborough that wouldn't agree with you here Christian. UK work on the possibility of designing a supersonic transport kicked off in November 1956 and that certainly included studies involving slender delta wings based on work that had already been started by the RAE at Farnborough. I was reading a lot of NACA material at that time and I don't remember anything demonstrating the advantages of a slender delta for supersonic transports. Do you have any references?
CliveL