Tests Underway for Model of Tailless Aircraft

Credit: ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT CENTER
Lockheed Martin is conducting aerodynamic tests of a 1/18th-scale model tailless, supersonic aircraft in the 4-ft. wind tunnel at the U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in Tennessee. The model features a jet-effects opening—or slot—on top of one wing and a spoiler on the...

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