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Uncommon card · Science
Tailless aircraft, an Uncommon card
In aeronautics, a tailless aircraft is a fixed-wing aircraft with no other horizontal aerodynamic surface besides its main wing.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 104
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 104 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Tailless aircraft quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tailless aircraft card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Disadvantages include a ______ sensitivity to trim.
Answer
potential. Disadvantages include a potential sensitivity to trim. From the Tailless aircraft article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tailless aircraft. Tailless aircraft 64 · Franklin Chang-Díaz 61 · Latina, Lazio 56 · Wellington Monument, Dublin 51 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It may still have a fuselage, vertical tail fin, and/or vertical rudder.
- Theoretical advantages of the tailless configuration include low parasitic drag as on the Horten H.IV soaring glider and good stealth characteristics as on the Northrop B-2 Spirit bomber.
- Disadvantages include a potential sensitivity to trim.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tailless aircraft article was read about 36,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Tailless aircraft
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tailless aircraft (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Original image taken by a British government employee prior to 1956., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
