Northrop N-102 Fang

[kerick]

How's the FANG coming along?

[mat]

How's the FANG coming along?

The FANG are moving ahead - slowly. I've just been in Copenhagen to visit my daugthers and some of my grandchildren. Which means a lot of physical exercise on different playgrounds. The FANG have now got the tailplanes, canopy and the start of the paintjob. Still some way to go.

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[Vulcan7]

Fangtastic   

[Rick Lowe]

  

[perttime]

I thought it looked good without the tailplane - but I suppose it belongs there.

[Pellson]

I thought it looked good without the tailplane - but I suppose it belongs there.

My thought exactly. 

[mat]

I thought it looked good without the tailplane - but I suppose it belongs there.

My thought exactly. 

It belongs there!

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[CammNut]

It belongs for sure. But is it big enough to haul that big wing around? On the Fang mock-up the point where the leading edge meets the fuselage looks to be almost directly under the trailing edge of the wing.

[Pellson]

My thought exactly. 

It belongs there!

I think all we meant was that the model LOOKS good enough without.

Looking at your pic, though, the stabilator is placed in line with or even slightly below the trailing edge of the wing, and that makes sense as it, during positive load at least, wouldn't be shadowed aerodynamically by the wing. On the model - not so much. And that looks somewhat weird. In my eyes, that is. It's still an amazing build

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice! 

[perttime]

It belongs for sure. But is it big enough to haul that big wing around? On the Fang mock-up the point where the leading edge meets the fuselage looks to be almost directly under the trailing edge of the wing.

It is an all moving tailplane. The delta wing extends pretty far towards the tail, so I was guesstimating that surfaces on the wing would do it.

I wonder if the wing surfaces were supposed to be working together with the all moving tailplane.

[CammNut]

Chord looked a bit narrow to me. But it's deceptive. Fang did have a pretty narrow-chord stabilator. 

[kerick]

I think it's just because most of us are not used to seeing swept tail planes on a delta like that. Mirage, F-102, F-106 and even the B-58. Then there is the MiG-21 and F-16 that have a longer fuselage after the wing. It's just a matter of what a person is used to seeing.

[Captain Canada]

 

[mat]

My thought exactly. 

It belongs there!

I think all we meant was that the model LOOKS good enough without.

Looking at your pic, though, the stabilator is placed in line with or even slightly below the trailing edge of the wing, and that makes sense as it, during positive load at least, wouldn't be shadowed aerodynamically by the wing. On the model - not so much. And that looks somewhat weird. In my eyes, that is. It's still an amazing build

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I CONFESS !!!
The tailplanes should have been placed lower down. But scrapbuilding sometimes means you have to adapt to reality. In this case the fuselage end (Made of the front of the 1/144 B-58) simply wasn't deep enough.
So in my what-if world test flights pointed to this unorthodox position