Bird Of Prey

[Seair]

Hi guys,


Some time back, Boeing unveiled the "Bird of Prey"....

Bird Of Prey - New Scientist News

Bird of Prey - Boeing News


Look at his wings....
Bird of Prey

It is so slanted, it has no vertical wing at all...
What i would like to ask here is aerodyanmics. Say, where is the lift factor? adaptation of the B2? How does this plane's structure contributes to his "stealthiness"?

A fact sheet/flight manual on it would me great!

Thanks alot

Seair

 

[Sonic Cruzer]

No more info, but it's just one more sign to me that we really had the better JSF entry.

 

[ExAF]

I'm no Aero major, but my guess is most of the lift comes from the body design, ala "lifting body." Cheers!

 

[Rush Limbaugh]

No more info, but it's just one more sign to me that we really had the better JSF entry.

The Boeing JSF never had a chance. It was history repeating itself with the YF-22 and YF-23. Both meet or exceed the requirements but one looks good and one looks like something out of a 1950's science fiction movie.

 

[Sonic Cruzer]

one looks good and one looks like something out of a 1950's science fiction movie.

Well that's certainly debatable. Personally I loved the spaceship-like shape of the X-32. The technical merits of both were quite good, but I've heard from sources on both sides of the fence that the superior, potentially more robust design lost in favor to that which had the more aggressive, manipulative marketing organization.

What's done is done. But I'm glad to see Phantom Works is still committed to thinking out of the box. If only we could get our execs to think out of the MacDac box and realize that our company's successes have been the result of risk and not simply maintiaining the bottom line.

 

[Seair]

Boeing company seems to be pretty big. A good competitor with the Airbus in the commercial world. They also produce/build quite a number of military planes.

Would like to ask, whether boeing company majors itself in commerical or military production of aircrafts. In the military world, which companies are the top rivials?

Thanks alot for your replys. Sadly, no more info on the Bird of prey? Planes known to be tagged with "a technology demonstrator" means as compared to the other planes that are not called a demonstrator? If they are just for demonstration and manage to make a breakthrough in technology, what are they going to do with them then? i mean if they manage to be passed off as a good fighter plane/spy plane and could be use for military purposes. Are they going to use lift off the tagged or are the going to built another one(not very economic wise?), so-called w/o the tagged or improve/change some external design and call it the improve version and "real" planes and not as demonstrators?


Thanks again

(s)Seair