Were The Wrights Right? Canard Aircraft History

[hesham]

From Air International 1983.

 

[publiusr]

They were ahead of their time.
Still are.

Wing warping is only now beginning to be possible with materials advancing.

View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/taROocVAYvM


The Wrights invented the first powered and controllable apparatus for heavier than air flight

--but Bleriot invented the airplane as we know it.

 

[Foo Fighter]

As an amateur, I believe wing warping is old hat now. BAE are looking at the future with air 'jets' is the best way I can describe it. Maintaining wing stiffness.

Drones might be better off with the warped wing but I would not want to transit in a ten year old (Or older) passenger craft that deliberately warps it's lifting surfaces.

Enough things to go wrong as it is.....

 

[publiusr]

That or 10,000 years from now (assuming people are still here and still have technology)...we will see aircraft in the sky that look no different than today's planes.

Evolution and fluid dynamics did that to sharks for hundreds of millions of years though.

Twin-jets and Falcons---making aerospace boring is job one.

Heat Death can't come fast enough.