Glenn Spacht, "The Forward Swept Wing: A Unique Design Challenge," AIAA Paper 80-1885, August 1980.
Sue B. Grafton, William P. Gilbert, Mark A. Croom, and Daniel G. Murri, "High Angle-of-Attack Charactreristics of a Forward-Swept Wing Fighter Configuration," AIAA 1th Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Aug. 1992. The results from the Full Scale Wing Tunnel testing of a NASA wind tunnel model.
Mark Moore, and D. Frei, "X-29 Forward Swept Wing Aerodynamic Overview," AIAA Paper 83-1834, July 1983.
D.G. Murri, M.A. Croom, and L.T. Nguyen, "High Angle-of-Attack Flight Dynamics of a Forward-Swept Wing Fighter Configuration," AIAA Paper 83-1837, July 1983.
Daniel G. Murri, Luat T. Nguyen, and Sue B. Grafton, "Wind-Tunnel Free-Flight Investigation of a Model of a Forward-Swept-Wing Fighter Configuration," NASA TP 2230, Feb. 1984.
Graham Warwick, "Forward-sweep technology," FLIGHT International, 16 June 1984, pp. 1563-1568. This includes a good cutaway drawing of the X-29.
Terrill W. Putnam, "The X-29 Flight-Research Program," AIAA Student Journal, Fall 1984, p. 2-12, 39. This is another good article, and includes a flight test plan, with a Gantt chart of the entire program as it was envisioned at the time.
John Raha, "The Grumman X-29 Technology Demonstrator: Technology Interplay and Weight Evolution," SAWE Paper No. 1665, May 1985.
Gadi Kaplan, "The X-29: Is it coming or going?" IEEE Spectrum, June 1985, pp. 54- 60. The emphasis here is on the flight control system design.
John Tierney, "The Real Stuff," Science 85, September 1985, pp. 24-35. This provides a critique, including comments from Irv Culver among others.
Stephen D. Ishmael and Ted Wierzbanowski, "X-29 Initial Flight Test Results," AIAA Paper 85-4017, 1985. This is the flight test pilot perspective.
Doug Frei and M. Moore, "The X-29-A Unique and Innovative Aerodynamic Concept," SAE Paper 851771, October 1985.
Glenn L. Spacht, "X-29: Managing an Integrated Advanced Technology Design," AIAA Paper 86-2630, Oct. 1986. This is another description of the program, emphasizing the approach taken to reuduce cost and risk.
Stephan Wilkinson, "X-29," Air & Space, April/May 1988, pp. 60-71. Good pictures.
Mark A. Croom, Raymond D. Whipple, Daniel G. Murri, Sue B. Grafton, and David J. Fratello, "High-Alpha Flight Dynamics Research On The X-29 Configuration Using Dynamic Model Test Techniques," SAE Paper 881420, Oct. 1988. This describes the NASA model work.
G. Huband and W. Gillard, "X-29 High Angle-of-Attack Flight Testing-Program Status," AIAA Paper 90-3303, Sept. 1990.
F. Luria and R. Guyton, "Flight Testing of Pneumatic Forebody Vortex Control on the X-29 Technology Demonstrator," SAE Paper 922008, Oct. 1992.
W. Smith, "X-29 High AOA Flight Test Results: An Overview," SAE Paper 931367, April 1993. This is a very good paper with lots of references.
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