And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Truly shameful not only all destroyed, is they stopped all development, imagine were the flying wing technology could be presently. So much potential, that Northrop design literally looked right, the turbojet version was killer sweeping across the sky.
They needed powerful flight computers that didn't exist in the 1940's - very advanced but lots of issues with stability. They were terrible bombing platforms as they took ages to get stabilised on a bomb run. I read they were believed to be difficult (impossible) to escape from in flight and that was true for one that shed its outer wings and crashed, Apparently Jack Northrop was fixated with having everything within the wing so airfoil selection was compromised, especially for the later YB49 jets. Once suitable flight control computers for unstable designs came along we got F16's etc... and the B2.
All destroyed. By executive order.
ReplyDeleteNot true. The Air Force secretary cancelled it all. Budget cuts.
DeleteHorrific was destruction of the airframes in sight of the Northrup employees. A recce hull was kept operational.
Coolest pic! What a flying machine, something else alltogether.
ReplyDeleteTruly shameful not only all destroyed, is they stopped all development, imagine were the flying wing technology could be presently. So much potential, that Northrop design literally looked right, the turbojet version was killer sweeping across the sky.
ReplyDeleteThey needed powerful flight computers that didn't exist in the 1940's - very advanced but lots of issues with stability. They were terrible bombing platforms as they took ages to get stabilised on a bomb run. I read they were believed to be difficult (impossible) to escape from in flight and that was true for one that shed its outer wings and crashed,
ReplyDeleteApparently Jack Northrop was fixated with having everything within the wing so airfoil selection was compromised, especially for the later YB49 jets. Once suitable flight control computers for unstable designs came along we got F16's etc... and the B2.
featured in the sci-fi "Kronos"
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