The X-36 is a remotely piloted 28% scale model of a two-axis-unstable notional future fighter aircraft with canards, a mid-wing and features the absence of any vertical control surfaces, Figure 1. The aircraft was jointly developed by the NASA Ames Research Center and McDonnell Aircraft & Missile Systems and flight tested at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Objectives of this program were to demonstrate fighter aircraft agility for a vertical tailless configuration and to demonstrate the development of a low cost alternative to full size prototype aircraft. This paper presents some aspects of the subsystem integration methodology used to develop the X-36 Tailless Agility Research Aircraft.
X-36 Tailless Agility Aircraft Subsystems Integration
Sae Technical Papers
World Aviation Congress & Exposition ; 1997
1997-10-01
Conference paper
English
X-36 tailless agility aircraft subsystems integration
AIAA | 1997
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British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
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