X-29 Forward-Swept-Wing Aircraft

This aircraft is open-loop unstable and depends on feedback control for it to fly.

• X-29 NASA movie
  • MOV
  • MPG1
• "Respect the unstable", by G. Stein, IEEE Control Systems magazine, Aug 2003, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=27285

Source: http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/index.html