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Re:Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings by sandworm101 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:36PM (#21108001)
Ya, inverted wing means something else, a wing tuned for inverted flight... at which point it becomes just a normal plane with the pilots seat upside down.
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Re:Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings by onion2k on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:37PM (#21109473)
Is that actually a thing? Landings would be terrifying.
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Re:Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings by Stevvo on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:35PM (#21109755)
It's not a thing, however acrobatic aircraft often have symmetrical airfoils, such that they can fly inverted.
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Re:Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings by brandmeyer on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:34PM (#21110358)
> such that they can fly inverted.

Make that, such that inverted flight has the same stall margins as normal flight.

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Re:Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings by Stevvo on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:25AM (#21113468)
Right, even a Cub with its flat-bottomed USA-35B will fly inverted, but in terms of angle-of-attack you would have no room for error, and the gravity-fed fuel system is going to cause you some problems too.
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