Meet next generation of US aircraft: X-plane
Fri Dec 13, 2013 11:39:58
Airplanes are great, but they can't hover without crashing. And helicopters are great, but they can't fly very fast. Attempts to tie the two together, such as the Harrier jump jet, V-22 tiltrotor or Sikorsky X-2 are aerodynamic compromises that end up doing neither especially well.