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Cold War Delta Prototypes - The Fairey Deltas, Convair Century-series, and Avro 707 (Paperback)
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Cold War Delta Prototypes - The Fairey Deltas, Convair Century-series, and Avro 707 (Paperback)
Series: X-Planes
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At the dawn of the supersonic jet age, aircraft designers were
forced to devise radical new planforms that suited the new power of
the jet engine. One of the most successful was the delta wing.
Although Gloster produced the delta wing Javelin, and Boulton Paul
-its P.111 research aircraft - Fairey and Avro were the champions
of the delta in Britain. Meanwhile in America, with the exception
of Douglas's Navy jet fighter programmes, Convair largely had the
delta wing to itself. These development lines, one on each side of
the Atlantic, had essentially the same objective - to produce high-
speed fighter aircraft. In Britain, the Fairey Delta 2 went on to
break the World Air Speed Record in spectacular fashion, but it
failed to win a production order. In contrast Convair received
major orders for two jet fighter types and one jet bomber. At the
same time, the British Avro company built the 707 family of
research aircraft, which led to the famous Vulcan, to show how the
delta wing could be adopted for a highly successful subsonic
bomber. This book examines the development of the delta wing in
Britain and America, and the way in which experimental aircraft
like the Fairey Deltas proved their potential and versatility. In
Britain it covers the Fairey Delta 1 and Fairey Delta 2, the
proposed Fairey Delta Rocket Fighter and huge Delta 3 long range
interceptor, and the Avro 707. On the American side, it examines
the Convair XF-92 and XF-92A, the development of the Delta
Dagger/Delta Dart family, and the Convair Sea Dart - the world's
only supersonic seaplane.
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