NASM SI-97-15291~Am John Canady, of Festus, Missouri, asks us: “Does there exist anywhere any pieces or artifacts of the Northrop flying wings YB-49 or XB-35?” Unfortunately, the short answer ...

The project would be known as Project MX-140 and the new bomber designated the XB-35. The N-9M (mockup) would be a flying wing design with a 60 ft wingspan, powered by two Menasco C6S-4 269 ...

Jack Northrop proudly showed his Flying Wing bomber, which looked like a giant boomerang, 172 feet from tip to tip. The unconventional XB-35 is the first of 15 which Northrop Aircraft, Inc. is ...

Near the end of World War II, the German successfully developed a jet fighter flying wing, although it did not enter mass production. From XB-35 to YB-49 In the early years of World War II ...

The Flying Wing bomber began as the XB-35, a rear propeller-driven craft, with a massive 172-foot wingspan. By contrast, the famed Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber “Enola Gay” that dropped the ...

Northrop responded with the XB-35 Flying Wing; Consolidated offered the XB-36 Peacemaker. In 1947, my boss, Colonel Albert “Bullet” Boyd, chief of the Army Air Forces Flight Test Division at ...

Efficiency of structure and design The first result of Northrop's efforts was the XB-35; a 172-ft wide and 53-ft long flying wing. The central focus of the aircraft was the emphasis on efficiency ...

The XB-35, the Flying Wing Like many smaller aviation firms, Northrop found his company contributing to the war effort by building components of other companies’ aircraft while only managing a ...

The Flying Wing bomber began as the XB-35, a rear propeller-driven craft, with a massive 172-foot wingspan. By contrast, the famed Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber “Enola Gay” that dropped the ...