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The article starts with the claim theBV 141 is the most assymetric aerplane ever made. Is this actually true? What references are there?
Burt Rutan's Boomerang certainly keeps the idea alive.
Did the BV 141 ever see any operational use, even as an evaluation aircraft? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Antarctica moon ( talk • contribs) 20:43, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
As much as I've searched the web today, only four (!) photographs of the 141A variant seems to be in circulation:
But the authorship is not provided by these pages, neither is the licensing information or the first publication. Please help to find this info, so we could have at least one picture of this variant on Wikipedia. Chances are, these photographs are already covered by this commons:Template:PD-EU-no author disclosure. -- Kubanczyk ( talk) 21:07, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
What was the advantage of this asymmetric design over a more conventional layout? What were the disadvantages? There must have been a reason for doing this, and also a reason it wasn't done more often. Chuntuk ( talk) 00:50, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
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The article starts with the claim theBV 141 is the most assymetric aerplane ever made. Is this actually true? What references are there?
Burt Rutan's Boomerang certainly keeps the idea alive.
Did the BV 141 ever see any operational use, even as an evaluation aircraft? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Antarctica moon ( talk • contribs) 20:43, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
As much as I've searched the web today, only four (!) photographs of the 141A variant seems to be in circulation:
But the authorship is not provided by these pages, neither is the licensing information or the first publication. Please help to find this info, so we could have at least one picture of this variant on Wikipedia. Chances are, these photographs are already covered by this commons:Template:PD-EU-no author disclosure. -- Kubanczyk ( talk) 21:07, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
What was the advantage of this asymmetric design over a more conventional layout? What were the disadvantages? There must have been a reason for doing this, and also a reason it wasn't done more often. Chuntuk ( talk) 00:50, 24 May 2024 (UTC)