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<blockquote data-quote="XP67_Moonbat" data-source="post: 77379" data-attributes="member: 1047">Whoever did those drawings on the website went to a lot of effort. But.........The double-delta may work. Just maybe. Look no further than the X-37B. And some of the pure delta designs mirror the early NASP configurations before the lifting body design was finalized.However I really doubt the rest of those confiurations will work, especially the swept wings. Plus the nose is a bit pointy. That's just asking for all kinds of heating trouble during flight and reentry. The actual X-30 was designed the way it was so it could perform in the flight regime it was designed for. There was a reason for the fat spatula nose and the tiny aft wings.I think these alternate wing designs, however nice they might look, would cause so much drag and heating from flight, they'd burn right off. Unless you have deflector shields onboard&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />, it's just not going to happen.I'm not professional like Scott or some of the others here and even I can see the immediate flaws.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="XP67_Moonbat, post: 77379, member: 1047"] Whoever did those drawings on the website went to a lot of effort. But......... The double-delta may work. Just maybe. Look no further than the X-37B. And some of the pure delta designs mirror the early NASP configurations before the lifting body design was finalized. However I really doubt the rest of those confiurations will work, especially the swept wings. Plus the nose is a bit pointy. That's just asking for all kinds of heating trouble during flight and reentry. The actual X-30 was designed the way it was so it could perform in the flight regime it was designed for. There was a reason for the fat spatula nose and the tiny aft wings. I think these alternate wing designs, however nice they might look, would cause so much drag and heating from flight, they'd burn right off. Unless you have deflector shields onboard ;), it's just not going to happen. I'm not professional like Scott or some of the others here and even I can see the immediate flaws. [/QUOTE]

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