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Jun 16, 2021 at 12:33 review Suggested edits
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Jun 16, 2021 at 11:38 comment added Urquiola A-380 is an example of wrong desing, its wingtip vortices, wake turbulence being so severe, it forces airports to stop traffic for several minutes, allowing for safe use of space by smaller airplanes, a Gulfstream sized Jet that entered the A-380 wake turbulence was so severely structurally damaged, that needed being scrapped. A-380, Antonov An-225 are the extreme class of wake turbulence of its own. But it was market, not engineers,who sent down this machine. Blessings +
Jun 15, 2021 at 11:43 comment added Guy Inchbald These comments are for discussing your answer, not for repeating it. So far nobody is agreeing with you. Leave it at that.
Jun 15, 2021 at 10:57 comment added Bart from Belgium Dear Guy , I know that hydraulics can also be redundant but the fact is that all this mass must be taken into account . I also understand if they had 4-bit comparators that time , reliable enough , they would have introduced fly-by-wire much sooner . But THIS is the " design failure " category of the website . And the XB - 35 fits right into it . Yes , I have deeply respect for those engineers who built this massive airplane in a still much bigger challenge to be the first airplane of this kind , no doubt . Being the first also means to BE the first to take punches for ( little ) mistakes .
Jun 15, 2021 at 10:48 history edited Bart from Belgium CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 15, 2021 at 8:48 comment added Guy Inchbald Even if you regard hydraulics as obsolescent by then (which is highly debatable), that does not make it "wrong". They "had the technology of the 40s" because they were designed and built in the 40s! That was right for their time, not wrong.
Jun 15, 2021 at 8:25 comment added Bart from Belgium Dear Guy , That is probably the best reason they got scrapped : even when you want to steer the airplane with hydraulics , is it a simple pump and electric valves that control the motion . The steering of it becomes totally electronic but back then they fed hydraulic lines all over the airplane . Hardly any redundancy over the controls was normal back then .
Jun 15, 2021 at 8:16 history edited Bart from Belgium CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 14, 2021 at 18:28 comment added Guy Inchbald There were only two XB-35s made; "each and every" is a tad misleading. You are probably thinking of the YB-35; around half a dozen were completed and several were then converted to jet power as the YB-49/YRB-49A. "Scrapped" is also an understatement; "Wilfully destroyed" is closer to the mark - the Smithsonian were even refused an example! Also, the B-2 can hardly be seen as a retread, stealth and fly-by-wire made it hole new ballgame.
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Jun 14, 2021 at 14:15 history answered Bart from Belgium CC BY-SA 4.0