I'd look at the wing areas, weights, and the cruise and landing speeds for existing deltas close to the type of aircraft you are interested in. There's the Dyke Delta, a recip powered homebuilt, and there's the Concorde. In between there is the XF-92 and some Brit research jets from the 50's and...
I can't get to my copy of _Ducted Fans for Light Aircraft_ by R. W. Hovey.
Would someone be kind enough to scan the pages with:
1) the graph of Disk Loading vs. Thrust Factor. Its the one with the empiracle data points, the curve fitting, and the zones.
2) the Power Loading - Thrust Factor...
