Word: tailless
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...Isle of Man in the Irish Sea was worried last week about its most famous product: high-rumped, tailless Manx cats. They are getting so scarce that a special organization, the Isle of Man Manx Cat Association, has been formed to foster their breeding...
...light (approx. 7,000 lbs.), transonic plane, built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. Fitted with two turbojets giving a total of 3,200 lbs. thrust, this sweptwing, almost tailless plane was designed for the study of control problems at altitudes up to 10,000 ft. Its stubby (26 ft. 10 in.) wings are equipped with elevens, i.e., combined ailerons and elevators...
...does not need the balancing action of a horizontal tail. All the necessary controls except the rudder, they say, can be built into its trailing edge. And a fast-acting electronic auto-pilot can be added to stop the bucking and pitching that have been known to flip a tailless plane into the beginning of a fatal somersault. But the GA-5, as an added measure of safety, carries a small delta tail high on its rakish...
...CHANCE VOUGHT, which moved to Dallas three years ago, is now producing the tailless, swept-wing jet Cutlass. Vought also is working on flying missiles. ¶HAMILTON STANDARD will shortly quit its plant adjoining Pratt & Whitney for a new $12 million plant at Windsor Locks, Conn. Its postwar hydromatic propellers have made such advances in airline safety that they are now specified on 90% of all U.S. transports in service or on order. In the belief that turboprops will be used on commercial planes before pure-jets, Hamilton Standard is perfecting supersonic and dual-rotating propellers for use with them...
Flying Arrowhead. The Navy allowed Douglas Aircraft Co. to release a picture of its XF4D, an experimental jet interceptor of daring, tailless design. Intended for launching by catapult from a carrier deck, it has been test-flown successfully, but nothing has been made public about its performance...