Daydream Notes

Being ahead of your time is a paradox. The further you strive ahead technologically, the bigger your theoretical advantage over your rivals. But as you get further ahead, you run into problems nobody has encountered before. With the flying wings from the last post, these problems revolved around stability.  This youtube of a pilot from the YB-49 program gives you some idea of what is covered by "problems", but in short a flying wing without a conventional tail had a Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde personality. Flying Wings are sedate and agreeable to fly -- until you blunder into the Hyde part of the flight envelope. Then, if you get out alive you would count yourself lucky. In the hypothetical world of operational Nazi flying wings, a lot of German pilots would have accidentally bumped into Mr. Hyde. This was really not a problem the Nazis could have solved, if the Horton Brothers had their way and kept tails entirely out of it. Pure flying wings only returned to serious c...