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.
B-35 was late and got cancelled. Prop engines were replaced with jets and it became B-49. There was a crash in flight testing for B-49. killing five. Later, B-49 was canceled. Computers would have been nice to have in the B-35 and B-49 programs, maybe preventing the B-49 crash, but they didn't exist yet.
Both deserve high recognition, like the jet more simply as its cleaner looking. Too bad the materials and tech wasn't up to the task with those big counter rotating props, they would have a serious long range plane similar to the Russia Bear's capabilities. Be even better with turbo shafts, save some serious weight plus gain decent longevity/O&R, over those huge piston Pratts, which require a monster of a ducting system. There's a great series of vintage shots shows the ducting they built under the engine cowl area, those bad boys consumed tremendous air for intake snd cooling. Packed in like sardines.
Both the Northrop and Horton flying wings (WWII era) had stability issues that could only be addressed with modern fly-by-wire / computer controlled control surfaces.
If that isn't cool.
ReplyDeleteYou can tell it swell if it’s Mattel. Or Revell?
ReplyDelete1/72nd scale by AMT. I have the B35 - it was not an easy build to get a good finish on.
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ReplyDeleteMust be the proper angle.
ReplyDeleteSo the first two wings can fly, but the most modern can only be stabilized by a computer? I think we've been lied to. Shocker I know.
ReplyDeleteClearly cutting away the wing shape for radar spoofing removes any chance of glide for a plane that is nothing more than a wing.
DeleteB-35 was late and got cancelled. Prop engines were replaced with jets and it became B-49. There was a crash in flight testing for B-49. killing five. Later, B-49 was canceled. Computers would have been nice to have in the B-35 and B-49 programs, maybe preventing the B-49 crash, but they didn't exist yet.
DeleteThink the early jet version is one of the most graceful elegant planes ever built. Gives the word soaring its definition.
ReplyDeleteNorthrup's prop-powered version looks nicer, to me.
DeleteBoth deserve high recognition, like the jet more simply as its cleaner looking. Too bad the materials and tech wasn't up to the task with those big counter rotating props, they would have a serious long range plane similar to the Russia Bear's capabilities. Be even better with turbo shafts, save some serious weight plus gain decent longevity/O&R, over those huge piston Pratts, which require a monster of a ducting system. There's a great series of vintage shots shows the ducting they built under the engine cowl area, those bad boys consumed tremendous air for intake snd cooling. Packed in like sardines.
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ReplyDeleteOne thing leads to another.
ReplyDeleteImagine some adversary's satellite photo of this, and they thought it was a singular aircraft. Not likely, but a fun thought.
ReplyDeleteBoth the Northrop and Horton flying wings (WWII era) had stability issues that could only be addressed with modern fly-by-wire / computer controlled control surfaces.
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