@Donald J. Trump Getting closer, love the stealth, love the speed, love the redundant engines, love the engines in the back, LOVE that there is off-the-shelf to cut costs, but AF1 MUST be able to land on water! Retracted wings are interesting, and check nearly all the boxes, but moving parts are failure points, and an asymmetric failure is most likely, a ghastly scenario? What does nature do? Is there a way to make the wing naturally sweep as a function of velocity non-mechanically?
… does friction from the air cause an electrical in place of heat memory in some alloys? Can thermal- or electro- static memory achieve stability at nearly infinite cycles? Perhaps this is over-engineering, how did the Russians achieve STOL (compounding numerous means) on a fixed wing non-mechanically, and can that be scaled recursively?
Of course, there is no such thing as a perfect circle, the final design converges upon the practical.
And of course, the perfected plane will make the mold for the next century of flight, and beyond! Vertical integration knows no bounds!
https://www.fws.gov/Lab/featheratlas/feather.html?Bird=RTHA_primary_adult_dark
… and of course, you’re missing your favorite designer / co-CTO from the projects! ;).
