marhawkman
Justified & Ancient
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The flying Flapjack was an interesting test case because the issue was stabilization. So the question is "useful for what?".... not sure what the answer is.It was a shape that appeared to hold promise. But if it had been useful we would have seen more prototypes by now.
And the Tupolev 144 and Buran) showed that Russia were not too good at radical design. prefering to stick to the tried and tested; to their credit.
The TU-144 crashed and burned(literally) decades ago. I'm kinda wondering what they've done this decade.