Скачать или смотреть The Airplanes With No Wings

A team of NASA engineers are tasked with what would have seemed impossible at the time: Designing an aircraft that has no wings. And so begun the experimental M2-F1 project. It eventually lead to the Northrop M2-F2, HL-10, and other lifting body airplanes. An aviation masterpiece, some of it's design elements influenced aircraft like the B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, and the US Navy would incorporate it into it's autonomous drones like the X-47B. We look at the full history of the program and everything it achieved.

00:00 Introduction
00:49 Early History at Langley Research Center
02:14 How It Works: Coanda Effect, Drag
03:49 Designing The M2-F1
04:49 The First Flights
06:40 Heavy Craft: M2-F2 and HL-10
07:54 Space Flight?
9:06 Conclusion

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