Grumman X-29: The World’s Most Unconventional Aircraft Design
In recent decades, the concept of swing wings has become widely adopted. However, most of the time, they aren't forward swing wings, like the Grumman X-29!
Despite Grumman and the USAF spending millions of dollars developing the jet, much of its technology has since been proven to be useless. So what exactly did the US get out of the program? And why did it fail?
As a result of the aircraft's technology and primary objective, the X-29 has arguably the weirdest aircraft design in history!
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Pre-X-29
The concept of forward-swept wings is not a new one. Rough sketches of forward swept aircraft date back to the time of the Wright Brothers! However, these designs proved to be ultimately futile.
During WWII, the ...