Project Tip-Tow

The “floating wingtip” concept led to Cold War experiments that had pilots tip-towing on the verge of disaster. The history of aviation is full of ideas that seemed ingenious when first pro- posed but failed in practice. These notions are usually born out of an  attempt to overcome vexing limitations of range, performance, speed or …

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