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| Aug 20, 2015 at 10:03 | comment | added | ROIMaison | For the interested people, I posted a related question comparing swing wings with oblique wings : aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/19130/… | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:56 | comment | added | ROIMaison | Yes, exactly, if the wings are exactly the same shape, stall will happen first on the inboard side of the forward swept side, and outboard on the aft swept side of the aft swept side, which will lead to a very asymmetric aircraft. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 | comment | added | usernumber | @ROIMaison when the pivot-wing is pivoted, the wing on one side is forward swept and the wing on the other side is aft swept. Does this mean that the stall characteristics are very different on each side of the plane? | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:44 | comment | added | usernumber | @PhilipJohnson but they aren't the same shape. The pivot wing looks like a straight wing, only turned at an odd angle. The delta wing looks, well, like a capital greek letter delta. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:39 | comment | added | Philip Johnson | I don't think I'm qualified to answer swept vs delta. For sure these are different. The delta has higher drag at higher angles of attack so often doesn't have flaps because the pilot can just lift the nose to slow down. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:39 | comment | added | ROIMaison | It's not exactly the same, as forward sweep and aft sweep are not the same, both structurally and aerodynamically, see this question: aviation.stackexchange.com/q/2360/4197 | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:37 | history | edited | Philip Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:34 | comment | added | Philip Johnson | Assuming the pivot wing is exactly the same shape as the delta when its swept back I don't see the difference. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:24 | comment | added | usernumber | So when the pivot wing is at a 60 degree angle for instance, it behaves the same way as a delta wing with the same angle? | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:18 | history | answered | Philip Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |