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The Story of the Northrop YB- 49 Flying Wing - Restored Color - 1949

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dfj3SeMI-s

wandawong2 years ago

"...making it difficult to hit or detect by radar" See! The Air Force does have smart people. After only 45 years of denial, the light bulbs above their heads began glowing brightly and they went crawling back to Northrop to design and build the B2 bomber. Which, by the way, has the same 102 foot wingspan of the XB49 shown here.

DoubleMrE3 years ago

The Flying Wing was cool, but it had a fatal flaw unfortunately . . . under certain conditions, it would go unstable and spin. You needed a LOT of altitude to recover (this is the reason that "Edwards"--whom the Air Force base was named after--crashed in the Flying Wing).

The problem was NOT solvable at the time. The Flying Wing concept only became truly viable with the advent of computer-assisted flight control as in the B-2 Bomber.

hibob4186 months ago

All right - narrated by the great Paul Frees. You can still hear him in the intro audio when you enter the foyer of Disney's Haunted Mansion(s), and as the voice of Boris in the Bullwinkle cartoons. Plus hundreds of other shows...

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