If you're historically inclined, you may be interested to know that the first swept-wing airplane appeared in 1907.It was built by J.W.Dunne, a gifted Irishman who also had some interesting ideas about the nature of Time.It had the distinction of being stable in all axes-un-capsizeable, in the boat-influenced language of the era.Wing sweep played a part in its stability; it provided a powerful dihedral effect, tending to roll the airplane out of a sideslip and consequently to keep it right side up without pilot attention, like a model glider.
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