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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
If memory serves the U2 also had that quirk. I would bet that the U2 doesn't though.*
I know in some aircraft (cannot speak specifically because I can't recall) the space in the wings is used to store fuel, this makes the wings bow down on takeoffs. Not sure if the 787 is doing the same thing.
While we are talking about nifty technologies on airplanes, the B-52 is unique in that it is among the only (I think it is the only) aircraft to currently use a crab system on its landing gear. When landing a plane that size in a cross wind the pilots will point the nose into the cross wind and let the wheels rotate so they can land. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stonefaction/237071351/.
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It is interesting that the F104 from whence the U-2 came.... with the addition of the big glider wings.... had wings so thin that they could not put the fuel in them. On the Starfighter... fuel had to be stored in the fuselage...
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