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Stephen Chapis explores the century-long legacy of Jack Northrop's flying wing design, culminating in the B-2 Spirit's ...
Jack Northrop’s all-yellow N-1M proving the all-wing design was controllable and, although lacking performance, data collected during these test flights was used in the design of future flying ...
US Air Force The flying wing The YB-49 was the final iteration of a flying wing bomber concept created by legendary aircraft designer Jack Northrop, founder of the Northrop Corporation.
History: Jack Northrop’s hangar is located at Hawthorne Municipal Airport. “There are a lot of complexities when purchasing real estate through bankruptcy,” said Andrew Kirsh, co-chairman ...
The demise of the test tunnel — a roughly mile-long white cylinder running along Jack Northrop Avenue near the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. office in Hawthorne, California — is ...
The demise of the test tunnel along Jack Northrop Avenue near the SpaceX headquarters is symbolic of a larger retreat. The project has been indefinitely shelved.
By Jack Northrop’s account, all her virtues are usable in a bigger design. Biggest of all virtues is that the flying wing, shedding her tail, has some 40% less wind resistance than a normal design.
Jack Northrop's Black Bullet was an attempt to radically improve combat aircraft performance by using an unconventional, near all-wing, airframe design. Although it ultimately failed, the XP-56 was ...
A B-21 Raider at Northrop Grumman’s facility at Edwards AFB, California. The B-21 is the most recently disclosed incarnation of Jack Northrop’s flying wing concept. Intended to replace both ...