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Post by lordroel on Jul 2, 2022 13:06:42 GMT
The INSANE 1950s British Nuclear Bomber With No Tail - Vickers SwallowWikipedia article: Vickers SwallowThe Vickers Swallow was a supersonic aircraft project headed by Barnes Wallis, working at the British aircraft company Vickers-Armstrongs. It was a wing controlled aerodyne, controlled in flight by movement of the entire wing, and was the supersonic successor to the Wild Goose project. ![](https://external-preview.redd.it/kXQh3ZLeLhJWO3Aimyy8tUSPXDtRIQ6TzpB5jyoQubM.jpg?auto=webp&s=1c0236bbd4a9efa8ab888530b38bd9b20d83f391) Several remotely piloted vehicles were built and flown for research purposes in addition to ground testing of static models. A conceptual full-scale aircraft was envisioned as a long distance airliner and, later on, as a potential supersonic successor to the Vickers Valiant, a subsonic V bomber then in service with the Royal Air Force. The project was cancelled in 1957 following the withdrawal of government backing. YouTube (ritish Nuclear Bomber With No Tail - Vickers Swallow)
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Post by simon darkshade on Jul 2, 2022 19:26:26 GMT
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Post by lordroel on Jul 2, 2022 19:29:26 GMT
The Swallow was never intended to be a bomber. Just because some berk on YouTube engages in clickbait silliness is no reason to start a thread parroting them. There were separate designs put forward for OR.330, but this is just conflating them and giving it a juvenile title to get views on YouTube. Well that is what you get (meaning me) if you do not know much about British designs of the past.
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Post by simon darkshade on Jul 2, 2022 19:32:29 GMT
The details are in the link I put in above and in Vulcan’s Hammer. There isn’t anything really newer on the Swallow and OR.330 than that, which is from 2011/12.
I think the moral is to try and find two independent sources, not just a new YT vid and Wikipedia.
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Post by lordroel on Jul 2, 2022 19:38:27 GMT
I think the moral is to try and find two independent sources, not just a new YT vid and Wikipedia. Noted for the future.
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