GENERALIZED PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF LARGE CONVENTIONAL, TAIL-BOOM, AND TAILLESS AIRPLANES

摘要

An analytical investigation has been made to determine the relative performance of large tailless and conventional airplanes. Inasmuch as there has been a. great deal of interest in tail-boom type airplanes having only a wing, booms, and tails, this type of airplane has also been included in the performance comparison.nIn the analysis certainassumptions were mad© regarding weight, drag, and stability which have not been wholly confirmed. The findings must therefore be considered as tentative pending confirmation by additional research. The principal conclusion drawn from this analysis was that large all-wing tailless airplanes may have better performance characteristics than their equivalent conventional airplane or tail-boom airplanes for certain types of missions.