If your plane doesn't need moving parts to maneuver then the maintenance and chance of shit breaking goes down. All those flexible things for flaps and shit? Not needed anymore.
>plane now needs double the computers, in triplicate redundancy >needs super advanced electric supply, distribution, and control >replacing hydraulics with wires
But yeah maintenance and the chance of shit breaking
We already know how to stick advanced computers in fighter-sized planes. If these are drones they might not even need computers in them, just communications.
Yes, all those reduce maintenance. The argument that electronics were less reliable because they were more complex than mechanical control systems was a common one among reformers until the 1991 Gulf War bodied them.
Yeah. I haven't blown out the dust from my gaming PC for like 4 months but it's still working top performance. This is consumer electronics, not top of the line military shit stuck in a literal state-of-the-art experimental aircraft.
boy if we only knew how to make and design control systems for airplanes with computers. Imagine if we could only find some kind of way to supply electricity on a aircraft and control it. You should patent this amazing idea.
reducing the number of moving parts improves the radar signature of the aircraft, or lack thereof. a real world application would likely come in the form of a stealth recon plane
How does this work? By selectively allowing air through the wings/surfaces in a controlled manner and changing air pressures on either sides of wings resulting in maneuvering?
It looks like it might be a boundary layer control system, they create suction from those little holes to suck up the turbulent flow which increases lift and reduces drag. By actively adjusting the amount of suction in each spot it could maneuver without control surfaces.
China is ALWAYS playing catch up with the US, and copying. Here's Boeing's EX. Seeing how Aurora is a subsidary of Boeing, if follows Boeing and McDonnell Douglas - which Boeing bought out work on EX, joined wing, and project Diamond. Can Chiner ever not copy the US's 20+ year-old designs?
>Emerging Aerodynamic Technologies for HighAltitude Long-Endurance SensorCraft’ UAVs:
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA428754.pdf
It, also, uses some concepts already tested on NASA's Fighter Lift and Control (FLAC)/ Subsonic High Alpha Research Concept (SHARC) that used blown leading edges to increase high alpha performance:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/nasa-ames-usaf-wright-laboratory-flac-sharc.373/
Tic-tacs are real and their ours. China absolutely seething. We don't even need control surfaces anymore.
>their ours
Says a lot about the pro-government shills on this board, honestly.
tic-tacs?
are there sightings of UFOs shaped like tic-tacs?
what's the benefit of this design? seems like you're losing a lot of fuel storage
If your plane doesn't need moving parts to maneuver then the maintenance and chance of shit breaking goes down. All those flexible things for flaps and shit? Not needed anymore.
>plane now needs double the computers, in triplicate redundancy
>needs super advanced electric supply, distribution, and control
>replacing hydraulics with wires
But yeah maintenance and the chance of shit breaking
We already know how to stick advanced computers in fighter-sized planes. If these are drones they might not even need computers in them, just communications.
Bruh even a palm sized drone has a fricking flight control board
moron
Yes, all those reduce maintenance. The argument that electronics were less reliable because they were more complex than mechanical control systems was a common one among reformers until the 1991 Gulf War bodied them.
Yeah. I haven't blown out the dust from my gaming PC for like 4 months but it's still working top performance. This is consumer electronics, not top of the line military shit stuck in a literal state-of-the-art experimental aircraft.
check your GPU radiator, it probably looks like a carpet right now
Modern gpus turn the fan off unless it gets above idle temp, around 50 C. His gpu cooler is probably fine right now.
Fly by wire flight controls are a LONG solved problem.
t.formerfighterfixer
boy if we only knew how to make and design control systems for airplanes with computers. Imagine if we could only find some kind of way to supply electricity on a aircraft and control it. You should patent this amazing idea.
what are you? a pajeet?
>computers are cheap
>when software is written it keeps working forever
>electric equipment is more reliable than mechanical one
What's the problem ?
Does your car still use manual gauges? Is it a stick? Power steering?
reducing the number of moving parts improves the radar signature of the aircraft, or lack thereof. a real world application would likely come in the form of a stealth recon plane
It's farting out gas from its holes
My exgf used to do that a lot.
Is that why she's your EXgf?.
How does this work? By selectively allowing air through the wings/surfaces in a controlled manner and changing air pressures on either sides of wings resulting in maneuvering?
Have you ever seen an air hockey table? It turns the surface of a wing into that using air ducted off from the engine path.
It looks like it might be a boundary layer control system, they create suction from those little holes to suck up the turbulent flow which increases lift and reduces drag. By actively adjusting the amount of suction in each spot it could maneuver without control surfaces.
>burgers now ripping off china
irony
>inb4 burger cope
the fact that you don't see the mechanical control surfaces on that drone mockup tells me everything i need to know
I bet you push on doors that say "pull".
What if I told you that design was invented and developed in the U.S. 41 years ago
China is ALWAYS playing catch up with the US, and copying. Here's Boeing's EX. Seeing how Aurora is a subsidary of Boeing, if follows Boeing and McDonnell Douglas - which Boeing bought out work on EX, joined wing, and project Diamond. Can Chiner ever not copy the US's 20+ year-old designs?
>joined wing
>project Diamond
Now, run away and pretend you were just being a typical chinsect (moronic).
A couple reports on joined wings, history of joined wings, and SensorCraft:
>A JOINED-WING FLIGHT EXPERIMENT:
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA483055.pdf
>Emerging Aerodynamic Technologies for HighAltitude Long-Endurance SensorCraft’ UAVs:
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA428754.pdf
It, also, uses some concepts already tested on NASA's Fighter Lift and Control (FLAC)/ Subsonic High Alpha Research Concept (SHARC) that used blown leading edges to increase high alpha performance:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/nasa-ames-usaf-wright-laboratory-flac-sharc.373/
>inb4 burger cope
>"nooo dont point out that im wrong noo"
objective reality is just an elaborate coping mechanism sane people use to avoid the nightmarish fantasy world /misc/tards inhabit
Is stealth the only advantage of this design? How big are the nozzles?