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| | SWING-WING: A History of Variable-Geometry Aircraft - XF10F-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | As the F9F Cougar and Panther were coming to the end of their illustrious careers, another member of the "cat" family was about to make its appearance, albeit for only a short time. |
 | | It was not the first variable swept-wing aircraft to be built, that distinction fell to the Messerschmitt P-1101 in 1944, which had ground-adjustable variable wings, whereas the first American model, the Bell X-5, a derivative of the Me P-1101, had in-flight adjustable wings. |
 | | Although, on the face of it, the aircraft was not successful, this belies the enormous contribution it made to future generations of aircraft, in terms of evidence concerning the lateral-directional characteristics of variable-geometric aircraft, the aerodynamic problems of variable-sweep winged aircraft, and the ineffectiveness of manual control systems above Mach One. |
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