BBC TU144 / Konkordski article - for interest
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Re: Canards
Everyone should have a few of these:
Yes I am Swedish. :-) Aren't they beautiful? And they work! And they can be bought already! Twenty of these and you have money left for a hangar, personnel, spare parts, and gold watches for the whole pluton, instead of one lousy F-35 with questionnable performance. Just kidding. The F-35 isn't even ready yet. ;-)
Everyone should have a few of these:
Yes I am Swedish. :-) Aren't they beautiful? And they work! And they can be bought already! Twenty of these and you have money left for a hangar, personnel, spare parts, and gold watches for the whole pluton, instead of one lousy F-35 with questionnable performance. Just kidding. The F-35 isn't even ready yet. ;-)
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The grandpappy of both of ems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_...XB-70_Valkyrie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_...XB-70_Valkyrie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_T-4
Air Force Museum - Monino, Russia
Already with an interesting fixed canard design, so that detail was already known some years before the 144.
The view from behind with the 4 grouped engine exhausts looks line a Star Wars battleship to me... Especially if you see it live on a grey and frosty day in Monino.
