Boeing/NASA Transonic Oblique Wing Transport

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Hi! NASA obligue wing sst.
 

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Hi,

I think a SST version of Rockwell B-1,and incredible NASA SST aircraft
and oblique wing SST aircraft.

Boeing CR-114658 High transonic speed transport aircraft study (1974)

 

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And;
 

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...With regards to the oblique "scissor" wing variant, has anyone seen studies on stability with one engine out?
 
"...With regards to the oblique "scissor" wing variant, has anyone seen studies on stability with one engine out?"

No, not explicitely, but in all designs shown here, the engines are placed near the centerline and
even in the model 5-06 they are, when the wing is in the slewed position. As early studies had already
shown, problems with stability were surprisingly small (see http://www.obliqueflyingwing.com/OWhistory.pdf ),
so I would suppose, that problems with asymmetrical thrust, due to one engine out wouldn't be much
greater, than for a conventional design.
Question remains, why this idea hasn't been accepted more widely still yet ! ???
 
Artist's impression of NASA supersonic transport concept circa 1972.

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Boeing oblique wing SST

An artist's conception of how the oblique wing would rotate. Why does the oblique wing improve aircraft performance at speeds near that of sound? There are two main reasons, both having to do with the complicated idea of "wave drag." It turns out that as speed approaches Mach 1 (the speed of sound) wave drag increases rapidly. One way to minimize the penalty of wave drag is to slenderize the aircralft's cross-sectional silhouette. Imagine cutting slices across , the aircraft and measuring the cross-sectional area of each slice from nose to tail. If you plotted the measurements on a graph, the line representing the cross-sectional areas would be shaped like a mountain - smallest at the nose and tail and highest at the wing. To compensate for the added cross-sectional area of the wing, designers of planes intended to fly near the speed of sound have traditionally pinched in the body in the mid-section. This "Coke bottle shape" keeps the graph line smoothed out, minimizing wave drag. Here1974-12-20T14:02:35+05:30que wing offers an advantage. As the plane nears Mach 1, and "slenderness" becomes more important, the wing can be rotated. This has the effect of spreading the wing along more of the plane's body, lowering the peak of that line on the grapy without pinching in the body. This enables designers to use the conventional cylindrical aircraft body which allows more room for seats and, in turn, saves on body length and weight. The advantage is offset somewhat, however, by the fact that you wouldn't mount engines on a rotating wing. Instead, they'd go on the body, increasing body length and weight over what it would have been otherwise. The Other aerodynamic advantage to oblique-wing design is that it makes possible a lower over-all cross-sectional silhouette. The whole line on the graph is lower and smoother, further minimizing wave drag

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Re: Boeing oblique wing SST

From TRANSONIC TRANSPORT WINGS—OBLIQUE OR SWEPT?, January 1974
by Robert T. Jones (Ames Research Center) and John W. Nisbet (Boeing Commercial Airplane Company)

 

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Re: 1972 NASA artist concept of SST

Artist impression via Michael J.Hirschberg/David M.Hart "A Summary Of A Half-Century of Oblique Wing Research"
 

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Re: 1972 NASA artist concept of SST

Always wondered where Estes got their idea for their Scissor Wing Transport. ;D
 

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Because the emphasize lies on oblique wing here, quite a special layout, that deserves
a topic on its own, because in the US ST thread it simply gets lost.
 
Hi,

Another drawings to oblique wing SST, note the second picture.
 

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From Aviation magazine 1972.
 

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The Baikal Liquid Fly Back Booster was the last time this was looked at, no?
 
Boeing NASA-CR-151928 Oblique wing transonic transport configuration development (1977)

 
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NASA's Robert T Jones Patent
 
"...With regards to the oblique "scissor" wing variant, has anyone seen studies on stability with one engine out?"

No, not explicitely, but in all designs shown here, the engines are placed near the centerline and
even in the model 5-06 they are, when the wing is in the slewed position. As early studies had already
shown, problems with stability were surprisingly small (see http://www.obliqueflyingwing.com/OWhistory.pdf ),
so I would suppose, that problems with asymmetrical thrust, due to one engine out wouldn't be much
greater, than for a conventional design.
Question remains, why this idea hasn't been accepted more widely still yet ! ???
NASA’s research into oblique wings started in a wind tunnel in California, then moved to an RC model that flew in 1976.

The AD-1 prototype encountered problems with roll/pitch coupling at steep sweep angles.
NASA commissioned Ames Industrial Corporation, who in turn sub-contracted Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites to build a single-seater proof-of-concept airframe. Wing sweep angle could be adjusted from 0 to 60 degrees while in flight. It flew 79 flights out of Edwards AFB from 1979 to 1982.
Two small TRS 18 jet engines were staggered - on opposite sides of the fuselage - presumably to reduce profile drag. Think Witcomb’s “Coke bottle” area rule.
 
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Re: Boeing oblique wing SST

From TRANSONIC TRANSPORT WINGS—OBLIQUE OR SWEPT?, January 1974
by Robert T. Jones (Ames Research Center) and John W. Nisbet (Boeing Commercial Airplane Company)


While neither of those links actually generate the paper in question, it is included in the Collective Works of Robert T. Jones, which is here: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760011971 starting on PDF Page 817.
 
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