Talk:Waverider

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I moved this to this page...

[Note: The XB-70 holds the record to this day for the highest lift-to-drag ratio on any manned aircraft. How does the original author find this 'debatable'?]

And my reply...

You asked how it is that I claimed the amount of compression-lift from the XB-70 was "debatable". Well that's easy: it got very little from it. The lift-to-drag of the XB-70 is primarily a result of the very high fineness ratio that is possible on a very large aircraft, super-low-drag engine inlets, and high performance supersonic airfoils. To put this in perspective however, the Concorde is within a percent or two of the XB-70, and the Boeing 2707 would have outperformed it. The XB-70 holds the record simply because so few supersonic cruisers have been built, in a field of two, one will win.

Maury 15:16, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Can someone post some illustrations of different waverider vehicle concepts? I'll try to find some on my own, if nobody does. --Henrickson 19:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Are the scramjet images accurate? [1], [2], [3] (?). --69.214.15.136 17:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Those are not waverider shapes. I will try drawing simple schematics on waverider inverse design. It should be relatively easy to visualize caret (from 2D oblique shock) and cone-derived (from conical shock) designs. Butakun 23:17, 15 August 2006 (UTC)