


"In 1996, McDonnell Douglas began test flights on the X-36, a tailless research UAV. It was powered by a Williams F113 cruise missile engine. Above certain high angles of attack, it became the most maneuverable aircraft in the world.
The X-36 was built as a technology demonstrator for McDonnell Douglas's proposed Joint Strike Fighter. The canards of the subsonic X-36 would have been replaced by a small butterfly tail on the aft end of the supersonic JSF (which bore more than a passing resemblance to Mc Donnell's F-101.) Alas, McDonnell Douglas was eliminated from the JSF competition in November 1996 and merged with Boeing. Still, the X-36 flights continued for another two years."