X-36 ready for its maiden flight!

I would recommend a vertical tail initially. Rather safe than sorry. Then if it flies well YOINK THAT THING AND FULL SEND 💪

I figured it would have had a tiny rudder vane in the nozzle for artificial yaw stability, the glide tests seemed promising though

Nice, it will fly for sure. A tail does seem to make sense, let's see how it does. 👍💪✌

This is where the term experimental aircraft comes in. Vertical stabilizer first, trim down each flight, like you said. It's what I would do in order to save time printing a replacement airframe. Good luck with it, AirHammer out!!

Vertical stab. Love the lines. You could go with small f-22 style. Note how big F-22 vertical fins are, and the angle...

I would add a Flight Controller at least, as it was planned for the real airplane and as someone wrote here, why not a servo and a rudder vane inside the nozzle that is controlled slightly by the FC

Wow thats one big belt printer.. you should make vertical fins on the wingtips that angle out like sideways v-tails to presever the sci fi look

Maybe a long one on top thats part of the fuse that sticks up a half inch? Or two short Stout F-22 style coming up out to a v-shape off the fan exhaust then leave them otherwise it's going to be kind of yaw ie when it flies around. There has to be some sort of vert stab or v-stab or it might yaw around

Yes add a vertical stab unless you like a uncontrollable drillbit 🙂

Try without tail fin... it's just weight and drag 😆

might need a tail as its not a flying wing, can wait to see it fly!

Add a split trailing edge like the Stealth Bomber The trailing edge of the tailerons is split to create drag on each side thus acting like a rudder...

Fly it the way it is, and if it doesn't fly right then add a rudder or maybe even 2 half inch x 4 inch long stabilizers on the top and bottom on the rear end of the plane for low profile

I swear you tricked us all with a helium-filled plane in your glide test 😂😂😂

At first glance I thought you may have incorporated two anhedral fins for the tail.

Vertical tail,yes

Like the majority… one or two fins. I think once the fins are detached it’ll get unstable in turns. Another interesting approach comes to my mind. I always asked myself how much the aspect ratio of aHorten can be decreased. Is it possible to get a delta like Horten? The Hortendesign flies even as a flat cutout (honestly with poor performance but it flies). Maybe a series of chuck gliders with decreasing aspect ratios is helpful.

Funkyyy bring this to a ama field see what they say 😂

There's a question I have regarding the battery and motor combo you use. All my 64mm rc jet build use 3 cell and I've noticed that its difficult to get a good thrust to weight ratio. Creating the lightest possible aircraft that weight around 600 grams with battery and are approx 1 meter long, Im still not acheiving a 1:1 thrust to weight ratio. In this new build you have, it's quite small but uses a 4 cell lipo. Is the power jump to 4 cell that significant? and if so, then what's the point of 3 cells in edf's. I feel like 3 cell edf combos are a grey area that everyone avoids.

The 50% version: Would it be possible to make it fly with little pushermotor? 😅

I have a hard time believing that it with fly without a vertical. My guess is that it will go into a flat spin at the first disturbance.

I'd try it without because it's an experimental plane, both in the real world version and in the model universe. Don't be locked into conventional thinking (oh, I has to have a vertical stabilizer) or risk adverse (it might not fly, my reputation will suffer or it might break). We all recognize that a full size aircraft without computer control wouldn't fly well, will your model and YOU have the responses to fly it? So my wuedtion is: are you going to put a gyro in it right from the start?

Fin first. Or I predict it will spiral into the ground during launch.