Talk:Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA

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well this brings a tear to my eye. a fine aircraft with such small article. i will try to rectify this. mnemonic 21:07, 2004 Jun 4 (UTC)

it would be much easier to expand if the military actually told us stuff Nicholas.tan 11:07, 2006 Oct 1 (UTC)

canceled?[edit]

hmm, i've read unconfirmed reports that the entire program has been canceled. will try to verify this.mnemonic

Unfortunately, I don't think there's much more information other than speculation at this time.

It's because the program is now in the black.

Other sources[edit]

X-44 page on globalsecurity.org - same basic content as in NASA's American X-Vehicles report.

Not finding anything else that's not a copy of this page. -Fnlayson (talk) 01:44, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another

Flights of fancy take shape. Jane's, 21 July 2000. - has a paragraph on the X-44.

These are or were used in the article but do not cover the X-44 MANTA.

"Delta Wings.". centennialofflight
"Specs." F22fighter.com - F-22 specs only.
"F-22 Raptor: Encyclopedia II - F-22 Raptor - Development." Global Oneness - Copy of Wikipedia F-22 content and has no content on X-44.

I removed one of these and added a verify tag after another. -Fnlayson (talk) 14:35, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is not a delta wing.[edit]

A delta is triangular, hence the name. It has a swept leading edge and straight trailing edge. You can clip the tips, but if the trailing edge isn't straight, it's no delta. I'd call it a diamond planform (and hideous to boot)..45Colt 18:04, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Lockheed Martin FB-22[edit]

This could easily be merged into Lockheed Martin FB-22. The X-44 seems to have been barely pursued by Lockheed Martin (did it even leave the drawing board?) and possibly may have been so classified that we'll never learn enough about it to write a full article (all drawings I have found are notional concept art, not Lockheed Martin or NASA). Conceptually, this is the same aircraft as the more developed FB-22 (minus the bombs). Schierbecker (talk)