THE FATHER OF MODERN FLIGHT: Alexander Lippisch Explains Aviation's Mysteries
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THE FATHER OF MODERN FLIGHT: Alexander Lippisch Explains Aviation's Mysteries
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Not too Bad…
I visited my mother yesterday and we talked about the tremendous recent rains. We sat inside to chat because the mosquitoes were so bad outside. This is about how our conversation went: Jacqui: “I just took a picture of another seven inches in my rain gauge.” Sandy: “Yes, I have dumped out over fifteen inches of rain in mine since that tropical disturbance…” (6-3-22) In spite of all this rain,…
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Lippisch P.13a
Lippisch Aerodyme E1 (via IFO Picture Library - VTOL, but not disk shaped.)
Alexander Lippisch, while working for Gerhard Fieseler Werke, designed a series of delta winged test-bed aircraft. The Delta IV was the summation of these tests. While the original Delta IV proved to be unstable, so unstable that Fieseler himself crashed the prototype and declared the project an utter failure. Lippisch, undeterred, continue improving the craft until the Delta IVc. The C model included an extended fuselage and had worked out the kinks of its predecessors. It so impressed the R.L.M., in fact that it became the basis for their Project X: The Me 163.