McDonnell Douglas X-36 - Wikipedia
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The McDonnell Douglas (later Boeing) X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft is an American stealthy subscale prototype jet UAV. Built for NASA and first flown in 1997, it was designed without the traditional empennage found on most aircraft. This configuration was designed to reduce weight, drag, and radar cross section; and increase range, maneuverability, and survivability. [2]
THE X36 BLUEPRINT — A NASA / BOEING X36 ARCHIVES
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The X36 was the flying proof: a 28-percent-scale model of a theoretical advanced fighter with no vertical or horizontal tail. In their place it used a forward canard, split ailerons on the wing trailing edge, and a single thrust-vectoring nozzle.
X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft - NASA
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The remotely-piloted X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft lifts off from Rogers Dry Lake at NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on its first flight May 17, 1997.