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Photo:
Robert Deering 10/18/2012 National Museum of the USAF Dayton, Ohio |
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This airplane was
the world's first jet aircraft to fly using
the radical delta-wing configuration
pioneered by Germany's Dr. Alexander
Lippisch during the 1930s. In 1946 the United States approved the construction of a delta-wing airplane, designated the Convair Model 7002. First flown on Sept. 18, 1948, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., it was to serve as a flying prototype for the XF-92 fighter then being designed. The XF-92 program was canceled, however, without any XF-92 being built, and the USAF accepted the Model 7002 in June 1949 as the XF-92A. Flight tests demonstrated that the stability and control characteristics of the delta-wing concept were practical and much of the information was incorporated in the development of the supersonic F-102 and F-106 interceptors. |
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