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Can China’s hypersonic drone carrier bring Nasa’s ‘scissor wing’ dream to life?
17 Aug 2025 02:10 GMT
… lines.
Drawing inspiration from Nasa’s quirky AD-1 experimental aircraft of the …
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“China Tests Secretive Wings”: Beijing Pushes Risky Scissor-Wing Design As Military Fears Rise Over Hypersonic Drone Revival
28 Aug 2025 11:54 GMT
… explored by various entities, including NASA, over the decades. The idea … in stability and control. The NASA AD-1, tested in the 1970s, was … Mega-Project Stuns Scientists as NASA Reveals Earth’s Rotation Slowing …
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China’s new ‘scissor wing’ project could revive a hypersonic drone concept
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… in the past (the 1970s NASA AD-1 was notoriously wobbly and hard …
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When NASA tested a plane with a pivoting wing
27 Jan 2023 10:54 GMT
… a kind, but the NASA AD-1 is undoubtedly one of them … “Thinking Obliquely,” a NASA book about the AD-1 program.
The design … I think the AD-1 was like other experimental NASA planes, in … to fix.”
Top image: The NASA AD-1 oblique wing research aircraft performs …
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Crazy But True: How NASA Tested Pivoting Wing Technology
03 Feb 2023 01:38 GMT
… acquired funding and made the AD-1 aircraft.
Details on the first … 18 jet engines allowed the AD-1 to weigh just 1,500 … Iv-olga / Shutterstock
NASA’s AD-1 takes flight
On December 21 … . Thomas C. McMurtry, a NASA research pilot, was understandably nervous …
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Por qué la NASA puso a prueba un avión con esta curiosa ala que gira
28 Jan 2023 03:51 GMT
… su especie, pero el AD-1 de la NASA es sin duda uno … ”, un libro de la NASA sobre el programa AD-1.
El diseño corrió … movimiento del ala en el AD-1. Crédito: NASA
Prueba de concepto
El … . Jones posa con el AD-1. Crédito: NASA
Futuro oblicuo
Durante el programa …
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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Remembers Pilots Who Lost Their Lives
31 Jan 2020 05:40 GMT
… a P-63A airplane. (NASA image)
(NASA) – NASA’s Day of Remembrance … the same solemn day, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in … chief research pilot at the NASA Flight Research Center during … NASA Armstrong.
Richard E. “Dick” Gray, seen above with the AD-1 …
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Top 5: The World's Weirdest Military Aircraft
16 Jun 2023 12:18 GMT
… wing.” One such example is NASA’s prototype “flying bathtub,” the … research aircraft initially built for NASA to further investigate vertical … X-36
Mil V-12
NASA AD-1
NASA Hyper III
Nord 1500 … Yak-38U
Sources: Lockheed Martin, NASA, US DoD, Boeing, Military …
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2025 WaterStone Bank Air & Water Show complete lineup revealed
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… the U.S. Navy and NASA. U.S. Air Force… -24 Liberator. AD-1 Skyraider "Bad News:" The AD-1 Skyraider was …
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Where Do Airplanes Store Their Fuel?
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… unique, pivoting wings like NASA's peculiar AD-1, after all.
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