for nerds only

Tailless plane???
For my fellow engineering nerds, these RC enthusiasts came up with a way to have a tailless plane fly.  Why is this a big deal?  Tails add stability in flight.  No tail means you have to change your plane's design to makeup for it... like the super-wide B-52 stealth bombers or flying wings.  You need to be wider to get stabilization and you won't be as high-performance or agile (no stunt flying).

Why should R/C stuff concern some of us?  Well, the military loves UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles) for scouting a such... and those are essentially big, fancy R/C toys.

For us LARPers... this design means flat objects can fly and be R/C controlled.  Great for the next step in flying props.  Pesmerga can have his colony of bats flying overhead and for them to NOT have little tails sticking out of them. 

But yeah... this is mostly for nerds like myself who like R/C stuff, models, electronics, and engineering designs.