Why Do Backwards Wings Exist?

2019-07-20

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Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus

Editor: Stephanie Sammann

Animator: Mike Ridolfi

Sound: Graham Haerther

Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster

References:

[1] http://hugojunkers.bplaced.net/junkers-ef131.html

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-008-DFRC.html https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a124715.pdf

[3] http://www.dept.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/ConfigAeroTransonics.pdf

[4] http://bit.ly/2Y17MM2

[5] https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/271130.pdf

[6] http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/sites/default/files/downloads/class5-2012.pdf

[7] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-081-DFRC.html

[8] https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/bitstream/handle/1840.16/2141/etd.pdf?sequence=1

https://youtu.be/pg-Qi5TYzK0?t=2161

[9] page 18 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Sweeping_Forward.pdf

[10] https://youtu.be/LOmvrk3LPGc?t=421

[11] https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a124715.pdf

[12] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88172main_H-1574.pdf

[13] page 24 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Sweeping_Forward.pdf

[14] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/120266main_FS-008-DFRC.pdf

[15] Page 124 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Sweeping_Forward.pdf

https://youtu.be/LOmvrk3LPGc?t=999

[16] Page 127 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Sweeping_Forward.pdf

[17] Page 208 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Sweeping_Forward.pdf

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tomic Numbers 1 - August Wilhelmsson

Codec Sabotage - Marten Moses

Computer Wiz - Marten Moses

Calmly - Dye O

Cobwebs In The Sky - They Dream By Day

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