"kites. Rather than one box, there are many, each with its own set of sails. Most of the altitude records for kite flying are held by large box kites, with Dacron sails, flown with Spectra cable. However in 2014 Robert Moore and a team of kite experts flew a 12 sq metre DT delta to 16,009 ft above their launch point. The location of the flights was near Cobar in Western NSW, Australia. While this was primarily a triangular winged delta kite, it has a triangular box centre cell for additional stability. . Future attempts on either the single kite"
"Delta Air Lines. Delta sponsored the attraction until January 1996, when, due to financial reasons and sponsorship of the 1996 Summer Olympics, they withdrew their sponsorship. The ride was renamed simply Dreamflight until June 1996 when the ride became known as Take Flight. Take Flight closed in January 1998 to be transformed into Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, which opened ten months later. Space Ranger Spin thus has a combination of the elements of its predecessors and all new scenes (the speed tunnel is the original speed tunnel from If You Had Wings and Delta Dreamflight). The installation of Space"
"TrikeBuggy Delta The TrikeBuggy Delta, Bullet and Transformer are a family of American ultralight trikes and powered parachutes, designed and produced by TrikeBuggy of Santa Barbara, California. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly. The TrikeBuggy family uses one carriage as the basis for their Delta ultralight trike, Bullet powered parachute and Transformer model, which can mount either wing. The carriage can also be used unpowered as the ""Kite"" model, drawn along on the ground by a parafoil kite in high wind conditions. The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's"
"a delta-winged supersonic jet (which ""Aviation Week"" referred to as the SR-3). Its description of SR-3 is similar to the North American B-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 strategic bomber, and to patents filed in the 1980s by Boeing. The SR-3 would carry a second, smaller airframe, codenamed the XOV (eXperimental Orbital Vehicle) underneath, between its two laterally separated engine-banks, each containing 2 or 3 engines. This rocket-powered spaceplane, with similarities to the X-20 Dyna-Soar project, would be released by its mothership at an altitude of around 100,000 feet. The XOV would then light its rocket motor (aerospike engines, similar to those"
"be fitted to the basic carriage, including the Wills Wing Falcon 3 Tandem, North Wing Status 17 and the Gibbogear Manta. TrikeBuggy Delta The TrikeBuggy Delta, Bullet and Transformer are a family of American ultralight trikes and powered parachutes, designed and produced by TrikeBuggy of Santa Barbara, California. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly. The TrikeBuggy family uses one carriage as the basis for their Delta ultralight trike, Bullet powered parachute and Transformer model, which can mount either wing. The carriage can also be used unpowered as the ""Kite"" model, drawn along on the ground by a parafoil kite"
"each of which was configured for a different role as a booster stage or an orbital spaceplane. The core vehicle design followed the Douglas Astro delta-winged reusable vehicle, as would the later US Space Shuttle, in being a vertically-launched rocket with integral wings so that it landed horizontally as an aeroplane. The design team was led by Tom Smith, Chief of the Aerospace Department at BAC. The design evolved through a total of fifteen proposed variants or schemes, each typically comprising a deep-keeled lifting-body airframe with delta wings in a smooth blended wing body layout, with twin tail fins rising"
"Delta Dreamflight Delta Dreamflight was an attraction located in Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom inside the Walt Disney World Resort, and was sponsored by Delta Air Lines. Dreamflight replaced an attraction called If You Could Fly (originally If You Had Wings), sponsored by Eastern Air Lines. Dreamflight used the same basic Omnimover ride system that other Disney rides utilize today. It was a pop-up book version of the history of flight using simplistic sets, some Audio-Animatronics and projection effects. Riders passed through scenes of barnstormers, an M-130, Tokyo and Paris in the 1930s, the jet age, and the future of"
"When supersonic transport (SST) aircraft were developed, the tailless ogival delta wing was chosen for both the Anglo-French Concorde and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144, the Tupolev first flying in 1968. Delta wing The delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a triangle. It is named for its similarity in shape to the Greek uppercase letter delta (Δ). Although long studied, it did not find significant applications until the jet age, when it proved suitable for high-speed subsonic and supersonic flight. At the other end of the speed scale, the Rogallo flexible wing proved a practical design for"
"a box kite structure, including the vertical panels) and strongly dihedral wings. In most cases they did not include any means for a pilot to control the aircraft roll — they could control only the elevator and rudder. The unpredicted effect of this was that it was very hard to turn the aircraft without rolling. They were also strongly affected by side gusts and side winds upon landing. The Wright brothers designed their 1903 first powered Flyer with anhedral (drooping) wings, which are inherently unstable. They showed that a pilot can maintain control of lateral roll and it was a"
"Delta III The Delta III rocket was an expendable launch vehicle made by Boeing. The first Delta III launch was on August 26, 1998. Of its three flights, the first two were failures, and the third, though declared successful, reached the low end of its targeted orbit range and carried only a dummy (inert) payload. The Delta III could deliver up to 8,400 pounds (3,800 kilograms) to geostationary transfer orbit, twice the payload of its predecessor, the Delta II. Under the 4-digit designation system from earlier Delta rockets, the Delta III is classified as the Delta 8930. Like the Delta"
"Junkers Ju 87 The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from ""Sturzkampfflugzeug"", ""dive bomber"") is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and served the Axis forces in World War II. The aircraft was easily recognisable by its inverted gull wings and fixed spatted undercarriage. Upon the leading edges of its faired main gear legs were mounted the ""Jericho-Trompete"" (Jericho trumpet) wailing sirens, becoming the propaganda symbol of German air power and the"
"Flying bomb A flying bomb is a manned or unmanned aerial vehicle or aircraft carrying a large explosive warhead, a precursor to contemporary cruise missiles. In contrast to a bomber aircraft, which is intended to release bombs and then return to its base for re-use, a flying bomb crashes into its target and is therefore itself destroyed in its attack. The term flying bomb is most frequently associated with two specific Second World War weapons, the German V-1 and the Japanese Ohka. The former was unpiloted, as the first known cruise missile ever deployed in combat; the latter carried a"
"rely on lift to reach their targets. Flying bomb A flying bomb is a manned or unmanned aerial vehicle or aircraft carrying a large explosive warhead, a precursor to contemporary cruise missiles. In contrast to a bomber aircraft, which is intended to release bombs and then return to its base for re-use, a flying bomb crashes into its target and is therefore itself destroyed in its attack. The term flying bomb is most frequently associated with two specific Second World War weapons, the German V-1 and the Japanese Ohka. The former was unpiloted, as the first known cruise missile ever"
"Apollo Delta Jet The Apollo Delta Jet is a Hungarian ultralight trike, designed and produced by Apollo Ultralight Aircraft of Eger. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft. The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category and the US light-sport aircraft category. It features a cable-braced or strut-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration. The Delta Jet is accepted in the United States as both an Experimental and Special Light-sport aircraft."
"rhomboidal box kite. The engine and propeller are mounted in the center of the forward wing. The fuselage is constructed from aluminum tubing with aircraft fabric covering. Thompson Boxmoth The Thompson Boxmoth is an American unconventional tandem wing aircraft that was built in the early 1970s by the Thompson Aircraft Company. Patent US39309624, Jan 6, 1976. Only one was constructed. The Boxmoth is an open frame, conventional landing gear equipped aircraft with two tube made, vinyl covered wings in tandem. Each of pair of the box-wings are shaped like a diamond from the front, or a biplane configuration with the"
"Delta wing The delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a triangle. It is named for its similarity in shape to the Greek uppercase letter delta (Δ). Although long studied, it did not find significant applications until the jet age, when it proved suitable for high-speed subsonic and supersonic flight. At the other end of the speed scale, the Rogallo flexible wing proved a practical design for the hang glider and other ultralight aircraft. The delta form brings unique structural advantages and aerodynamic characteristics. Many design variations have evolved over the years, with and without additional stabilising"
"they were based on did not. Production fighters like the Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault Rafale and Saab Gripen all use a delta-wing configuration with canard surfaces, while some variants of the Su-27 including the Su-30, Su-30MKI, Su-33 and Su-37 use canards to supplement traditional tail-mounted elevators. Though a high thrust-to-weight ratio and high aerodynamic maneuverability are found on both aerodynamic and supermaneuvering aircraft, the technology most directly linked to supermaneuverability is thrust vectoring, in which the geometry of the exhaust nozzle of a traditional jet engine can be modified to angle the engine's thrust in a direction other than directly to"
"Holden, again in the guise of another aircraft, this time, the F-102 Delta Dagger. Convair XF-92 The Convair XF-92 (originally designated XP-92) was an early American delta wing aircraft. Originally conceived as a point-defence interceptor, the design was later used purely for experimental purposes. However, it led Convair to use the delta-wing on a number of designs, including the F-102 Delta Dagger, F-106 Delta Dart, B-58 Hustler, the US Navy's F2Y Sea Dart as well as the VTOL FY Pogo. Prior to August 1945, the Vultee Division of Consolidated-Vultee looked at the possibility of a swept-wing aircraft powered by a"
"system consists of a pair of skids. XT utilizes commercial off-the-shelf airframe with indigenously developed flight control system by UAV Sci-Tech to meet the specific mission requirements. Specification: UAV Sci-Tech UAV UAV Sci-Tech UAVs are Chinese UAVs developed by Beijing UAV Sci-Tech Co., Ltd. (UAV Sci-Tech, 北京国遥星图航空科技有限公司), and these UAVs include both fixed-wing and rotary-wing UAVs. Delta wing UAV is a fixed-wing micro air vehicle (MAV) developed by UAV Sci-Tech, and it does not have any vertical rudder. Propulsion is provided by a two-blade propeller driven by a pusher engine mounted at the empennage, and the UAV is usually launched"
"stacked elements downward in one direction, but stacked squadrons upward in the opposite direction. A third element of three bombers was added to the 18-plane box, placed in the most exposed squadron for additional support. This resulted in a 21-plane wedge-shaped configuration that was adopted by all groups on January 13, 1943, and remained standard through September 1943. Although the combat box was initially designed around a group of airplanes, it was expanded to include a formation of three groups flying together as a ""combat wing"", all of which were based on the same triangular design of a leading bomber"
"flying on October 11, 1990. Over 500 test flights were carried out between 1990 and 1995. The X-31 is a canard delta, a delta wing aircraft which uses canard foreplanes for primary pitch control, with secondary thrust-vectoring control. The canard delta had earlier been used on the Saab Viggen strike fighter, and has since become common on fighters such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault Rafale and Gripen which were all designed and flew several years before the X-31. The X-31 featured a cranked-delta wing (similar to the Saab J35 Draken and the F-16XL prototype), and fixed strakes along the aft"
"Delta-Wing UAV (Fei-Die San-Jiao-Yi Wu-Ren-Ji, 大三角翼无人机). Specification CY-X6 is a hexacopter with a pair of skids as landing gear. CY-X-6 is constructed of carbon fiber composite material, and navigation is provided by GPS, based on which the fully autonomous flight is conducted. Chunyi CY Chunyi CY UAVs are Chinese UAVs developed by Beijing Chunyi Aviation Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (Chunyi, 北京淳一航空科技有限公司), and most of them have entered service with Chinese military governmental establishments. CY-02 Small White (Xiao-Bai or Xiaobai, 小白) ) is fixed-wing UAV developed by Chunyi in conventional layout with high wing configuration and tricycle landing gear. Propulsion"
"Denel Dynamics Skua The Denel Dynamics Skua is a turbojet-engined target drone used to simulate fast-moving attack aircraft during surface-to-air and air-to-air training exercises and weapons tests. It is manufactured by the Denel Dynamics division of the South African state-owned Denel aerospace and defence conglomerate. The Skua has a composite airframe, its wingspan is 3,57 m and length 6,00 m. Under-wing hardpoints can carry tow-targets and signature enhancement equipment up to 160 kg. An internal payload bay has a capacity of 70 kg. It is recovered by parachute and lands in an inverted position on airbags, this makes water landings"
"Delta-v Delta-""v (literally ""change in velocity""), symbolised as ∆""v and pronounced ""delta-vee"", as used in spacecraft flight dynamics, is a measure of the impulse that is needed to perform a maneuver such as launch from, or landing on a planet or moon, or in-space orbital maneuver. It is a scalar that has the units of speed. As used in this context, it is ""not"" the same as the physical change in velocity of the vehicle. As a simple example, take a conventional rocket which achieves thrust by burning fuel. Delta-v is the change in velocity that can be achieved by"
"attitude and airspeed. Supersonic aircraft usually have all-moving tailplanes (stabilators), because shock waves generated on the horizontal stabilizer greatly reduce the effectiveness of hinged elevators during supersonic flight. Delta winged aircraft combine ailerons and elevators –and their respective control inputs– into one control surface called an elevon. Elevators are usually part of the tail, at the rear of an aircraft. In some aircraft, pitch-control surfaces are in the front, ahead of the wing. In a two-surface aircraft this type of configuration is called a canard (the French word for duck) or a tandem wing. The Wright Brothers' early aircraft were"
"tails are pointing downward instead of upward, as most aircraft designs. The complete name for CY-08 is Flying Saucer with Delta-Wing UAV (Fei-Die San-Jiao-Yi Wu-Ren-Ji, 飞蝶三角翼无人机). CY-10 is a fixed-wing UAV developed by Chunyi in delta wing layout with mid wing configuration. The fuselage is constructed of composite material and it has tricycle landing gear. Propulsion is provided by a two-blade propeller driven by a pusher engine mounted at the end of the empennage. A unique feature of CY-10 is that its winglets are pointing downward, instead of upward as in most cases. The complete name for CY-10 is Large"
"Delta Sailplane Nomad The Delta Sailplane Honcho and Delta Sailplane Nomad are a family of American ultralight aircraft and motorgliders that were derived from the Volmer VJ-24W SunFun and produced by the Delta Sailplane Corporation. The aircraft were supplied as kits for amateur construction. The Nomad and Honcho were both designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . Both have a standard empty weight of . They feature a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat, open cockpit, and a single engine in pusher configuration. The Nomad is the motorglider version with"
"fairing, all atop a single CBC. The Small variant was dropped by 1999. The Delta IV Medium (Delta 9040) is the most basic Delta IV. It features a single CBC and a modified Delta III second stage, with 4-meter liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks and a 4-meter payload fairing. The Delta IV Medium is capable of launching 4,200 kg to geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). The GTO orbit is 1804 m/s away from GEO. The mass of fairing and payload attach fittings have been subtracted from the gross performance. The Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) (Delta 9240) is similar to the"
"balloons took over in the 1920's and 1930's. Box kite A box kite is a high performance kite, noted for developing relatively high lift; it is a type within the family of cellular kites. The typical design has four parallel struts. The box is made rigid with diagonal crossed struts. There are two sails, or ""ribbons"", whose width is about a quarter of the length of the box. The ribbons wrap around the ends of the box, leaving the ends and middle of the kite open. In flight, one strut is the bottom, and the bridle is tied between the"
"consisting four cropped delta wings mounted at the empennage, and an additional pair of main wing is mounted in the midsection, closer to the tail. A little further from the main wing toward the nose, there is a pair of much smaller swept wing mounted perpendicular to the main wing. Wings and propellers are deployed after the rocket booster is jettisoned in flight after launch, Specification: Mad Warrior (Kuan-Zhan-Shi, 狂战士) UAV is an experimental UAV that changes the shape of its wing at different speed for better performance. However, unlike typical variable-sweep wing aircraft which sweeps at different angles at"
"(or grouping of bombers) in the center, and two bombers (or groupings) immediately behind in a vee shape, with one at an altitude above and one below the center in close proximity for mutual defense. The new combat boxes continued to be used, but groups were placed in a horizontal column and stacked at increasing altitude to decrease their vulnerability to attack. This resulted in the rear formations lagging behind which impacted both defensive tactics and bombing performance. The wing box, a 54-plane formation (basically three 18-plane boxes stacked in a similar fashion to the group box), evolved from a"
"a box that was stacked vertically, from front to back, and laterally. This final variation presented flak gunners with a small target, produced excellent bomb patterns, and was both easy to fly and control. B-24s of the 2nd Air Division, more difficult than B-17s to fly in formation at high altitudes and with more restricted cockpit visibility, used a variation of the 27-plane group box. One element of each squadron (normally the uppermost in the middle/lead and high/right squadrons, and lowermost in the low/left squadron) was moved to the outside of the formation so that it was abreast of the"
"activity. A paper plane is a toy aircraft (usually a glider) made out of paper or paperboard. Model glider aircraft are models of aircraft using lightweight materials such as polystyrene and balsa wood. Designs range from simple glider aircraft to accurate scale models, some of which can be very large. Glide bombs are bombs with aerodynamic surfaces to allow a gliding flightpath rather than a ballistic one. This enables the carrying aircraft to attack a heavily defended target from a distance. A kite is an aircraft tethered to a fixed point so that the wind blows over its wings. Lift"