1984
Darpa and the Air Force funded a program to demonstrate that a highly unstable aircraft with forward-swept wing and close-coupled canard could be flown to extreme angles of attack. Grumman was awarded the contract to build two X-29 demonstrators, the first flying in December 1984. The X-29...
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