NORTHROP AIRCRAFT YB-49 FLYING WING PROMOTIONAL FILM 8245

[@Josh-hr5mc]

History like this on video is like finding gold. The plane was so limited and rare. A marvel of it's time. But to have videos of it we are truly blessed the military documented so much

[@tenkloosterherman]

There already was a lot of documentation available since 1949. You just need to look for it.

[@Fairmontcr7]

Jack Northrop did get to see a model of the B-2 before he died, so he knew his concept had been validated. The wingspan was almost identical.

[@20alphabet]

Steve Hedke It wasn't Jack's concept, but it was his persistence. It was Hugo Junker's concept, patented in 1910.

[@kinficher]

the CONCEPT of flying wing appears in 1876 two french engineers Alphonse Penaud and Paul Gaucho! Junkers patented him

[@kkteutsch6416]

kinficher in no part of that film nor Junkers name nor german brothers Dittmar and Ottmar Horten work on that type of plane didn't rememberd, too...

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

The team designing the B2 went to the Smithsonian to do detailed studies of the Ho-229. They also interviewed at least one YB49 pilot. One of the questions they asked, what do you do if you stall the plane? The answer was DON'T! There were 2 problems with the YB49. 1) engine power 2) flight control. The B2 flies as well as it does because it is fly by wire. The YB49 was hard to fly. When my Dad was stationed at Brize Norton, they would cover the base with smoke on take off.

[@peterson7082]

@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer I am skeptical of the testing of the v.III prototype.

[@wandawong]

And... with the incredible voice of the amazing Paul Frees.

[@PorscheGTRSWeissach]

"the plane of tomorrow is flying today" ;-) love this "futuristic" aircrafts! awesome design!

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Best car ever (your profile)

[@encinostalgia]

Famous cartoon and voice-actor Paul Frees does the narration. He also appears briefly as a news reporter in the 1953 film "War of the Worlds" which features footage of the plane in action.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Peter Brothers Thanks for this information that's marvelous!

[@corn1971]

The narrating voice of so many Disney cartoons of that era.

[@dirtydave2691]

Good catch. I was wondering who that was. "Mr. Walker becomes Mr. Wheeler". Goofy on driving.

[@danielwick2852]

I heard his voice straightaway!

[@SteveBrant55]

I recognized his voice from "War of the Worlds" too! I think he actually has a scene in the film in which he is reporting from the site of the meteor crash. When the Martians begin their main attack, he microphone cable gets cut when they destroy his truck.

[@suzanneterrey4499]

I was lucky enough to watch it fly when my dad was stationed at Kirkland AFB in New Mexico. It was coming in for a landing and was fairly low when I outside playing in the yard. I saw it twice and was completely mesmerized when it was above the house. When I saw it, it had propellers in the rear, just like the B-36.

[@billhuber2964]

Great post. This is helping me on my research on a 1/72 scaled model of the y- b35 flying wing I'm building.

[@Vespuchian]

I do like the -35 over the -49, something to do with the appeal of combining the giant propellers with the clean wing (and the improved stability from those props). What brand of model are you building?

[@billhuber2964]

@@Vespuchian l just completed the a.m.t 1/72 of the y-35. The reasearch was changing.

[@Vespuchian]

@@billhuber2964 Congrats on the completion! I'm sure it looks quite the beast on the shelf.

[@billhuber2964]

@@Vespuchian right next to the b-2 spirit .

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

This channel is truly underrated. I love the old smell of these videos !

[@PeriscopeFilm]

That's quite interesting. A couple of years ago we interviewed Gen. Robert Cardenas who was the pilot on the B-29 that dropped the X-1, and one of the primary USAF test pilots on the YB-49. Have you seen the movie "The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club"? You can see his interview there. You can purchase the DVD on Amazon or watch it on Netflix.

[@danstinson7507]

Thank you for using this newer watermark instead of the clock. It still marks the source, but is much less obtrusive and doesn't hid information behind it the way the counter does.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@stevetheduck1425]

The previous XB-35 was a piston-engined version of this type, with the YB-49 being the jet version. There are photos that show the several airframes parked together, I believe eight or more were actually built, but few were finished, flown and fully tested. Given the success of the Avro Vulcan, a less advanced 'all-wing' design, which still had a vertical tail and a nose with a cockpit, the B-49 may have been the US's most successful and longest-serving bomber. With more modern autopilot and computer stability aids (available by the time this plane flew), it would have been safe to fly to it's theoretical maximum speed. It reminds me of the time when all home computers had to be bought anew every few months, instead of going forward with the then-existing chips, drives and so on, when it was already possible for all home computers to be 'dumb terminals' which only gather information on the users, which has come true with hand-held devices, which lack the usefulness or accessability of the home computer / PC.

[@khman1983]

It is amazing considering the lack of research available at that time and everything had to be engineered with calculations from slide rules and no computers. It was said that the yaw was difficult to control on the plane. Still, it seemed to work fine in the flights. Jump ahead many decades and the flying wing returned by the B 2 Bomber.

[@lawrencegenereux8567]

A quick slide rule joke that only a slide rule user would understand: Question - Using only a slide rule to do the calculation, what is 2+2? Answer - It's about 4.

[@PRH123]

hmm, as concerns aviation there was already a massive investment in research for decades by that time and a huge amount of research and data accumulated, much of which is still in use to this day...

[@khman1983]

@@PRH123 It was said the research and knowledge learned from the original flying wing was used to build the B2 bomber later. There was no fly by wire technology during the days of the first flying wing. I still think the biggest mistake of the Air Force was when the B-70 program was cancelled.

[@willb3698]

Thanks ONCE AGAIN PeriscopeFilm and Periscope II. An Excellent post.

[@sourabhhirau6958]

When I first saw the flying wing based B-2 stealth bomber plane on Discovery Channel around 20 years ago, I was so fascinated by it, it was so futuristic, it almost looked like an alien machine entered into earth atmosphere

[@realitynotfictionii563]

The public is mostly clueless about current events and reality. The germans had the Horten flying wing way before WWII. That is where we got the idea from. I know what you mean tho, I am amazed by the SR7I black bird..till this day, looks like a movie craft. But that was late fifties tech. Today open source we have zero gravity craft. Check it out on my channel or look up Salvatore Pais, he has a patent on a 'UFO' craft, "they're already operable". So much tech is suppressed, for the masses.

[@secondchance6603]

@@realitynotfictionii563 "The germans had the Horten flying wing way before WWII" Kind of, it was a glider and they weren't the only ones flying these type of aircraft.

[@B_Estes_Undegöetz]

Yup. Germans, not aliens. 😮

[@ras2084]

I saw a Flying Wing fly over me and make a sharp turn. That was when I was a kid in the mid 1950's, Bainbridge Island, Washington.

[@yellowhammer4747]

I feel that this design was in operation long before they came out with the B-2 Spirit.

[@josephkool8411]

The flying wing is such a cool name for a plane. They should have called the F104 the flying fuselage , but missile with a man in it is pretty cool too

[@LoneWolf051]

Ive been out to the 49's crashsite out near Edwards, not much left, but a slight dip in the earth, and some rocks with melted aluminum scorched onto them

[@PeriscopeFilm]

That's actually not entirely accurate. The wing did go into an end over end stall with pilot Robert Cardenas at the controls, and he was able to recover the aircraft. If you watch the film "The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club" he gives a pretty good account of this.

[@Curling12341]

Ahead of its time.

[@tomcline5631]

They talked to him,as the only man left on the planet who had flown a large wing. The air Force and Northrop pilots that we're going to test fly the B-2 asked him about any really unusual characteristics,and he told them, don't stall the bastard! They told him that the flight control computers wouldn't let them!!

[@1793912]

Great post. Wow!

[@kevinhoffman6592]

When they made this film it truly was the plane of tomorrow. Glad Jack Northrop lived to see the B2

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks for your comment, but don't think that's actually true. The Internet says that "Shortly before his death, he was given clearance to see designs and hold a scale model of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber..." But I don't think he ever saw the actual aircraft.

[@kevinhoffman6592]

@@PeriscopeFilm ill have to check i just remember comment he made about being allowed to live long enough to see his dream come true .something like that

[@kevinhoffman6592]

@@PeriscopeFilm ur correct he was given clearance to see the plans n model in 1980

[@robcombs3785]

Great site....5 stars!!!!

[@erikhertzer8434]

20:10: “difficult to detect with radar”...those were prophetic words...as many years later this became the B-2 Stealth bomber...

[@toter-drache]

Watch "John K. Northrops final interview 1979" , it explains the reasons for cancellation of the project and subsequent destruction of the original planes. As you can imagine , a politician was involved.

[@lincbond442]

The narrator sounds a lot like Paul Frees. In addition to his numerous television credits as both an actor and voice actor, he narrated the now defunct Disneyland ride "Adventure Thru Inner Space".

[@plus1275]

that is one ominous SOB wing so awesome banking like that ..

[@K-Effect]

Mr. Northrop Pride and Joy

[@crispycritterz]

A plane 3 decades ahead of it's time. And they had a really hard time tracking it on radar..... wonder why?

[@peterson7082]

Not really ahead of its time, but certainly innovative.

[@npmetzy5737]

When was this film originally released to the public?

[@raphaelrae8186]

The YB-49 needs the vertical fins to keep stable, just like the tail rudder is needed for conventional planes. The B-2 needs computers to keep stable.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

What was his name? Was it Glen Edwards?

[@dabluox]

I remember this as a young boy. In the original War of the Worlds movie this was the airplane that dropped the nuclear bomb that destroyed he invaders. Way ahead of it’s time. Jack Northrop was a genius.

[@moosebat47]

Look back, the flying wing didn’t nuke the “martians”, according to Gene Barry, the hero, the martians were protected by some sort of “bubble”.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The stock footage flying wing nuclear bomber completely fails to destroy the invading Martians in the 953 'War of the Worlds' movie. They have a protective 'blister' of energy (on of the very first 'force fields' put on film) which negates the attack, they then move on to destroy the army ranged against them, perhaps out of mercy, as they'd got fallout all over them already.

[@paulsnickles2420]

Very interesting aircraft

[@lincbond442]

The YB-49 was cancelled because SAC could not find a spot to display the SAC shield and Milky Way band. :)

[@BeechSportBill]

...when the pilot walks out to the plane, it has propellers. When he’s activating the controls, it has jets!

[@Alwis-Haph-Rytte]

It was the hybrid model, LOL

[@tomcline5631]

Called stock footage. The prop version was the Xb-35 and the jet was the XB-49. Same guy was chief test pilot for both for the USAF.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Some flying wings had props, then some had podded jets added, then some were built with jets only.

[@raphaelrae8186]

I'd like to see whatever you have on the B-2 Spirit.

[@RKBrockstheworld]

the greatest bomber ever built !

[@sammkevin4020]

How "Edwards Air Force Base," EARNED it's name. Captain Glenn Edwards, 6-5-1948.

[@Curling12341]

Didn't he die in a crash while carrying a nuke?

[@andyharman3022]

@@Curling12341 No. He died when he tried to stall test the YB49.

[@GoSlash27]

9:05 Well, he wasn't wrong about the lack of stability.

[@tenkloosterherman]

Jack Northrop was way ahead of his time. Fortunately he was shown the B-2. One can only wonder why his ideas were ignored so long, especially seeing that the US also captured several German tailless designs after WW2.

[@widescreennavel]

Narrated by Disney's Paul Frees, voice of Haunted Manion, and more importantly, The Adventure Through Inner Space, the BEST attraction Disney ever created. Go on, disagree with me!

[@gerryallwin2992]

A flying wing with no tail at all is essentially impossible for a pilot to control in a stall. It "wants" to flip over backwards and tumble. Only after computer control has the flying wing concept become practical as the computer reacts hundreds of times faster than a human being can. The "pilot" is a director who tells the computer what he wants it to do with the airplane.

[@jeffersonoliveira302]

Um projeto muito moderno pela época

[@skyshark1397]

man, why they did not preserve at least one of them? it would be so nice to see it today

[@stevetheduck1425]

The hatred of politicians, and their need to destroy the evidence of their corruption, knows absolutely no limits.

[@bwayne40004]

I am pretty sure the narrator is Paul Frees. Interestingly, he was a radio reporter doing the play by play in the 1953 version of War of the Worlds where the "Flying Wing" (guess which one it is) drops the bomb on those pesky Martians. Playing them side by side sure sounds similar.

[@bwayne40004]

Also, the pilot is the same pilot for both the promo and the movie. Same shots too I believe. Northrop must have financed the movie.

[@robertbrockway7301]

I bet those flying wings caused a hell of a lot UFO sightings in those days.

[@leftcoaster67]

YB-49's top speed was under 500 mph. When Kenneth Arnold saw his UFO's. He used the location of the mountains to time the distance from Mt. Rainer and Mt. Adams. 1 minute and 42 seconds. Approximate speed would be 1,650 to 1,700 MPH. That's over 1000 mph over the top speed of a YB-49. Maybe some sightings. But not all.

[@stevetheduck1425]

@@leftcoaster67 Perhaps just the UFO sightings described back then as 'boomerang' shaped.

[@GamePlayShare]

Need bigger watermark because I can still see the video behind.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZbin users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do. Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

[@eugeneverblaauw7737]

The Northrop YB49 is a prime example of small minded decision makers. The Air Force and Department of Defense screwed Jack because they were too set on conventional aircraft layout. The wing flew with with only rudimentary analog computer which proved it could be done primarily with control technology of the day. Imagine how moving forward with this design at that time may have helped to advance computers in flight control? And then Northrop was made to destroy the prototype! Jack was vindicated.

[@filipematossilva1154]

By "Iron Works". ;-) After, when was possible, arrived the awesome B-2 "Spirit". :-) Northrop Gruman's platform for US. Global and responsible power to support Peace, Balanced economy and Security!

[@nicholasmaude6906]

The problem with the YB-49 is that it was too far ahead of its time, the lack of proper tails meant it had stability issues and late 40s flight control systems tech couldn't handle that, if it had had fly-by-wire controls it would've been just fine but such tech didn't exist till the late 1950s.

[@albertbassoe5966]

"Well, sounds as if someone has an opinion" the last thing you hear before being executed by tumblr

[@jonathangoode546]

This plane should have been in production. This plane would have been Impossible to shoot down and very Maneuverable this would have been the elusive bomber .HOW CAN ANY ONE TURN THIS UNIQUE LOOKING Plane .

[@stevetheduck1425]

See vid, see bomber turn. See flying wing bomber turn often.

[@jonathangoode546]

@@stevetheduck1425 and ?

[@ronhoffstein8142]

From what I gathered in the over 50 years working in the industry and many of those with Northrop, the thing that killed this plane was its low radar cross section. Our military could not cope with a plane that our radar could not see and didn't want a potential adversary to adapt it. All flying versions were destroyed and Northrop was told to shut up and sit down. When low RCS became needed, Northrop was called upon for this fundamental design. Their B2 answered that call and currently their next generation is in the works. Jack might have been an asshole, but his company sure has developed some advanced stuff.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

That's an interesting theory but the reality is, the YB-49 was a design way ahead of its time. It was a hot mess that needed computerized stabilization of a type that wasn't developed until decades later.

[@briandavis1402]

My Father worked on the construction of the YB 49. He was there when an Air Force Colonel, staff and later an Air Force General arrived at Northrup Aviation. They said the plane was too Dangerous to be a Nuclear Bomb Platform because of the inherent instability, the chance of losing a bomb over North America, the poor reputation of the aircraft being promoted by other Aircraft Manufacturers and the Air Force Top Brass inability to understand such a different type of aircraft and the subsequent design hurdles. My Father was there when the Air Force General reported that corrosion had been found in some areas/parts of one of the YB-49's. My Father working with other engineers determined that Sulphuric Acid had been poured onto various structural members as a deliberate act of Sabotage. It was also determined that Various Air Force Officers acting as Support Staff had gained entry inside the aircraft before the inspection on the pretext of making sure all was safe for the Air Force General. John Northrup said as much in an interview with KCET / Los Angeles before he passed away. John was still a very bitter old man even in the interview shortly before his death.

[@PorscheGTRSWeissach]

+Brian Davis Ok! Didn't know that! I guess, Sabotage comes very often into play when Big Manufacturers fight for the Deal/Contract! Still an amazing Aircraft to me! That futuristic Look! Addicted to Flying Wings! Also the Ho-229 from the Horten brothers is still my favourite Aircraft! Now we know that Ho IX V3 in Washington is only a 1:1 Mock up! Not airworthy at all ! Also i wonder, why no airworthy Replica up in the Air ? Soo many Replica's of Warbirds flying at Airshows... I mean, we have the needed Technology today. Still a question in my mind... (sorry for bad english...;-)

[@moonman3213]

It seems the company has a history with that type of politics. I'm positive thats why they also scraped the YF-23.

[@yellowhammer4747]

STEALTH is the reason they made this aircraft. That and it can carry more farther than any other aircraft.

[@bstrakos2934]

Politics knocked out the Northrup design in favor of the Consolidated B-36

[@HighAltitudesCO]

Same video they used in the War of The Worlds movie when the flying wing took off to go after the Martians.

[@mikestanley9176]

who is the narrator?

[@naturallawprinciples]

Another concept successfully developed, produced & tested within Germany under the Nazi regime, the flying wing designed by the Horten brothers. Interesting info... Otto Skorzeny, a general in the SS, AKA 'Hitler's Commando", in part, for leading the mission that snatched Mussolini from under the noses of the British, is quoted, upon seeing some examples of advanced aircraft designs developed near the end of WWII, as commenting '...on the great potential for post-war psychological operations' ...the artists rendition of the craft seen by a pilot & the eye-witness, of one of the first 'UFO' cases in the US bears a remarkable similarity to the 'Allwing Horten V' ...one of the orders issued by the top brass immediately following the crash of a craft in Roswell, 1947, was to locate the whereabouts of who....yup,you've guessed it....the Horten brothers... They were eventually tracked down in Argentina where they were ostensibly designing aircraft for Pesident Juan Peron.

[@tombrunila2695]

The YB-49 had absolutely nothing to with research in Germany! It was based on the Northrop XB-35. Development of the XB-35 started in the USA in the early 1940's when the USA was at war with Germany. Jack Northrop had been flying small flying wings since the 1930's.

[@emmgeevideo]

I wonder why they called them “aeroplanes”? In part of the video they do use the conventional term.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The aircraft and it's parts has had numerous names, some different depending on the country and language, since the beginning. Here in Britain, for example, the part of the wing that does the lifting is mathematically the 'aero-plane', while the fuselage, empennage, ailerons, etc. are French words, showing how influential early French flight pioneers were. Even the word of a place to keep a 'plane is 'hangar', a French word for a temporary wooden building next to a house, usually used to keep the rain off a wagon or carriage, before planes existed. Another one: by WWI, British people were calling aircraft 'machines, such as 'flying machine', 'fighting machine', battle-plane', etc. This seems to have been the result of author H. G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' book, where the invading Martians use 'fighting machines', 'handling machines' essentially occupied robots that do the heavy work, and most extraordinary, a 'flying machine' which is wing-shaped and drops 'black smoke' in canisters, which poisons people, and changes the air to suit the Martians and their plants. He had an influence on the English language.

[@lucianobarbosa5764]

At 2:42 a little mistake in terms of physics... But an outstanding video! Well done!

[@phayzyre1052]

This was back when Northrop used to be a very good company to work for. Everything I heard about Jack Northrop they said he was a very good man who genuinely cared about his people but nowadays Northrop Grumman is run by a gaggle of overeducated college punks who are slowly, digging that company’s grave. Northrop used to be a major player in aviation, nowadays not so much. Yeah, they might have aircraft like the B-21 Raider (nothing but a rebooted B-2 Spirit) but that’s about all they have going for them. Last aircraft they built from the ground up was the YF-23 black widow but even back then Northrop bungle it causing that program to fall flat on its keister even though it was a better airplane than the Lockheed F-22. I probably won’t live to see it but if Northrop Grumman is around 40 years from now, I’ll be shocked.

[@jcrossier20]

Beautiful Horten 229.

[@GermanShepherd1983]

It's too bad that politics killed off the YB 49. It turned out convair had better connections and got the B 36 pushed through instead. B 36 was a joke with both props and jet engines combined. We could have had a pure jet bomber instead. I'll hate convair forever for what they did to the YB 49

[@stevetheduck1425]

The Convair 880 jet airliner finished them off, their connections didn't help with a lesser product against the Boeing B707.

[@reith_kichards1733]

hammer jungs

[@ВатнаяфабрикаимениКрасныхпарти]

Музыка из "Dive Bomber" 1941 года))))

[@thejewelmaster]

Edward Lee Swindell, I was named after him, but I never met him, I DID meet his daughter and grandchildren of course,cousins you know, at grand ma's house. Cousin Carol is a liitle older than I, Mom says uncle Ed graduated high school the year she entered first grade and the great depression was in progress so he went out on his own early. He done good. He was on the crew that dropped the X-1, prior to the XB-49 program of course. Richard Edward Parker

[@lowercherty]

They didn't even have a clue about the low radar cross section.

[@stevetheduck1425]

It was known that some planes had less radar 'return', but the method of hiding them was then was Electronic Countermeasures, rather than stealth design. Stealth, was cheaper and quicker to develop, but didn't need to be endlessly updated, so there was less profit in it.

[@tigerlee7189]

This plane was made in the 50's. I ask myself what the US technology today still kept in secret and how much far advance than the current one what the world seeing now???

[@tombrunila2695]

Its first flight was on 21th October 1947. Its predecessor the XB-35 flew even earlier.

[@Curling12341]

Look out....IT'S RODAN!!!!!

[@pgtmr2713]

Airplane vs. Aeroplane... aaannd FIGHT!!!

[@leftcoaster67]

Aircraft vs. Aircrafts.

[@Progneto]

Thank you for posting this gem! Too bad Jack Northrop didn't live to see his vindication in the stealth bomber. I am surprised that we don't have a luxury liner in the flying wing configuration.

[@terrancestorey7254]

He did live to see it. They revealed the aircraft to him while it was still in black ops. After the final design configuration the B-2 had the same wingspan. Upon learning of this Jack Northrop said "i now know why god let me live this long."

[@Progneto]

That's awesome. I didn't realize he ever got to see the B-2. I still believe the flying wing has not found it's rightful place. I think it is the ideal airplane for passenger and cargo. I have designed two homebuilt aircraft and i think a flying wing would be the ideal homebuilt aircraft. Since a wing carries its own weight, you don't have to worry about wing spars which are not the easiest thing to design. One of these days I'm going to design a two place flying wing that can be built in a person's garage!

[@publicmail2]

Yes he did see it, then they killed him.

[@SPak-rt2gb]

There's an excellent documentary called " The Wing Will Fly " it might be on youtube check it out.

[@InFltSvc]

This was the ufo’s they were seeing in the time

[@stevetheduck1425]

There are many 'boomerang' shaped UFOs mentioned back then, yes.

[@erikhertzer8434]

A problem with the Flying wing would be cargo size and the ingress/egress of bulky cargo such as a truck...compard to a conventional configured cago airvraft

[@RIXRADvidz]

Too Bad, it was actually quite elegant.

[@PRH123]

Turns out that grouchy old man in the convertible was right for about 50 years, and to this day in the case of almost all aircraft except for a small number of military aircraft and drones...

[@gordonf5553]

The B-36 must be a real drag queen ahahaha. ha.

[@johnwatson3948]

Forget the golden myths about the flying wing expressed above and below. The XB-35 could not solve vibration problems caused by uneven wing wake into the props - switching to jets doomed the wing as it was now in the medium range class and in no way could compete with the medium B-47. It became an “orphan child” that the Air Force did not know what to do with.

[@whalesong999]

I've not seen that aspect discussed in my own studies of the Northrop wings. It would be important to note that with the failures of the original contra-rotating propeller systems and adapting conventional props, the performance dropped so much that they knew it was doomed as a prop ship. The later YRB-49 was a six engine version, had potential to succeed if other aspects weren't dooming the project. In 1950, I was in the 4th grade at school in the country outside Wichita, Ks. In that year, a man named Orva H. Douglas moved into our school district with his wife and two children, Donald, the oldest being my age and in my class. Orva started work at Boeing/Wichta at the factory, in engineering I think. He was the flight engineer on the B-35 versions, even had one of those cast model B-49s on the stand like in this video. I was schooled a bit by Donald and his father about the "wing" projects and that was a significant background in their lives. Donald and I went on to share some modeling hobbies and we graduated together in 1959.

[@ThomasSmith-os4zc]

Was this used to send the Russians off on a wild goose chase?

[@fireengineer]

The wing had a nasty trait of going end over end when it departed flight. That was not recoverable.

[@robertbrockway7301]

fireengineer That only happened ONCE and it recovered.

[@kkteutsch6416]

At 8:15 " who ever heard about tailless flying wing "... Yes, two german brothers heard - and see and developed their flying wings some years ago... Dittmar and Ottmar Horten, they were Luftwaffe pilots, only electronic computer control no exhisted at time to help their flyability, as a lot of modern plane projects need to too, however, their names need not to be remembered, here, since their country loses the war... RIP.

[@peterson7082]

@@kkteutsch6416 ?

[@gerryallwin2992]

100% skill + 100% luck.

[@thetreblerebel]

Jack Northup got robbed of this contract. But the world's best bomber is the B2 do he won over Convairs ass

[@punman5392]

Imagine if Northrop designed this as an airliner or cargo plane instead of a bomber

[@ivtones]

Jesus Loves You

[@rolandrodriguez3854]

Cartoon voice lol!

[@bojanu7212]

The flying wing in this form and aim was first designed by German brothers Reimar and Walter Horten before II World War and developed during the II WW. The Germans did also first flights of that plane with code name HO-229. How Mr. Northrop got this secret project after the II WW and started the adventure with that design remains a mystery. Why in this movie the HO-229 was not mentioned is another mystery. See here about story of Horten-229: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6LKl52Olq-rjJo And here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZu7o2itaLJno8U

[@20alphabet]

Bo Janu That's not exactly true. Hugo Junkers patented the flying wing concept in 1910. Jack Northrop was designing one before the Horton brothers began their version.

[@peterson7082]

Not even close buddy

[@stevetheduck1425]

The flying was a theoretical target to build as soon as a mathematician saw the figures derived from wind tunnels. Building it was attempted many times. Many early airplanes had mostly-wing or even all-wing designs, and things like the Westland 'pterodactyl' can be found, which is one of those many.

[@sumedhapriyanka8164]

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[@thejewelmaster]

Killed my uncle.