- Smartfish
The Smartfish is a two seated
experimental aircraft designed byKonrad Schafroth which uses alifting body configuration.Unlike most aircraft, the Smartfish is modeled after the
Tuna species offish . This makes the plane fly steadily without error-proneslats , spoilers or flaps. The projected range of the aircraft is 8000 km at about Mach 0.9.There are few working model exemplars of the Smartfish.A
fuel cell -powered model has been built in collaboration withGerman Aerospace Center (DLR) and, according to the factory, flew in April 2007.
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Hydrogen planes
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* [http://www.smartfish.ch/ Smartfish Homepage]
* [http://www.dlr.de/Desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10/60_read-2183/ DLR model]
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