Friday, December 21, 2012

Time to start!

Ok, is now time to start with my first post.
I just want to share my favourite design. I called it Dream, and it is a foot launchable tailless glider.
The image above is self explanatory. The idea is to reduce the structural components to the minimum, but still keeping a fuselage pod assuring a good streamlining.
I always like to quote the sentence below, coming from a well known dreamer, Anoine de Saint-Exupery:

It seems that the perfection is attained 
not when there is no more to be added,
but when there is nothing more to be deleted.
At the end of this evolution,
                                                   the machine effaces itself....

A Tailless Tale: the design evolution

The design Evolution The inspiration came from the SWIFT foot launched glider, that still remains the most succesfull tailless ultralight ...