If the wyvern was to be developed in real life by any military company would it be able to fly perfectly without tearing its wings apart due to its weird wing design?
If the wyvern was to be developed in real life by any military company would it be able to fly perfectly without tearing its wings apart due to its weird wing design?
Weirder designs have proven flight worthy, there is no reason to believe the X-02 concept couldn't overcome technical hurdles that would make it difficult to fly. Having forward swept wings is used to give pilots less stress when making high G maneuvers. The forward swept wing design is already proven, the Su-47 and X-29 are the most famous examples also, there are dozens of privately designed modern jets with forward swept wings as well. When the X-02 folds flat it looks like a near perfectly designed stealth aircraft. However, its missing a tail. Without vertical stabilizers "yaw" becomes very difficult. However the B-2 Spirit solved this problem by allowing each engine to be able to apply different levels of thrust. So with the 3-D thrust vectoring in the X-02, if a research and development team also added a system similar to the B-2's then there would be zero reason to believe that the X-02 would have any draw backs as far as air worthiness is concerned.
Yeah, but won't it be difficult to sweep the wings because of its pattern? No y wing aircraft has those kind of sweep wings because the pattern is already unstable concerning stability to allow turn and roll performance.
"No y wing aircraft has those kind of sweep wings because the pattern is already unstable" Ok, So there is no such air-frame as Y-wing. But I understand the description. The correct term is "forward swept" wings. You are correct having forward swept wings makes the air-frame inherently unstable its like building a plane backwards. However, unstable aircraft have been developed decades ago. There are now 2 predominant technologies to eliminate air-frame "instability" the first and most important being a technology called Fly-by-wire. FBW is when a computer controls minute changes in ailerons to allow an unstable aircraft that have a tendency to point its nose up or down to force the plane to fly perfectly straight. Fly by wire was first used widely in the F-16 as its air-frame is also unstable. If a planes fly by wire system were to ever fail mid flight the plane would disintegrate in air. The second technology that aids unstable planes are a physical trait I'm sure you've already seen called "Canards". Canards are the 'small wings' you see by the cockpit of a lot of non american aircraft. On paper canards are supposed to help improve mobility primarily. Their secondary role is to improve the fly by wire system to allow for high angles of attack. Canards are usually placed on an aircraft to compensate for a deficiency. So to recap we know the X-02 has a fly by wire system. We know this because you can't have canards on your air-frame and not have fly by wire. We also know the X-02 has a deficiency. Looking at how the X-02 flies we can clearly identify what the X-02's main issue. That being that it doesn't have proper vertical or horizontal stabilizers. Technically you can say it has both but at the same time it has neither because none of them are in a fixed configuration. They 'transition' from vertical to horizontal. Just as the 'swept forward wings' transition from 'swept forward' to a 'swept back'. You are correct when you say there are no aircraft that can perform this transition now as an example. However, airplanes have been transitioning into different configurations since the 60s."Yeah, but won't it be difficult to sweep the wings because of its pattern?" Its not too terribly difficult. In fact the act of deploying an air-break similar to those of the F-15/E and Su-27 and a host of others is much more difficult than the X-02's method of deploying its hidden swept wings. The X-02 opens a small flap on each wing for a few seconds while the hidden swept wings sweep outwards. There is very little drag involved. There is more drag involved than the transitions of the F-14 and B-1 but the transition on the X-02 is so fast it can't make a difference in performance. Assuming that this issue would have been either compensated for by its designers with some other technology like NASA's laminar flow used on the wings of the F-16XL.