Stephen Chapis explores the century-long legacy of Jack Northrop's flying wing design, culminating in the B-2 Spirit's ...

From his youth, Jack Northrop imagined efficient all-wing aircraft so advanced that technology and power plants needed to support them efficiently were not yet available. Jack Northrop John "Jack ...

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.

Northrop planned to use the aircraft for experimental flying to determine how best to stabilize and control an all-wing aircraft. An all-wing aircraft is aerodynamically clean with no protruding ...

Today, the only successful flying wing aircraft is the B-2 Spirit, soon to be replaced by another flying wing, the B-21 Raider.

Northrop Grumman has built the experimental XRQ-73 hybrid-electric flying-wing that it has been developing under a secretive US military project.

While a Northrop official described the Tacit Blue as one of the most unstable aircraft ever flown, its data aided in the development of several weapon systems.

The semi-tailless Northrop X-4 Bantam’s design helped iron out the problems of transonic flight.

The Raider brings back the “flying-wing” design of its predecessor. Warden notes that Northrop settled on the final B-21 design after exploring thousands of options to meet the USAF’s ...

The B-21 Raider was displayed at the company’s secretive Plant 42 complex about 34 years after a similar ceremony for its predecessor the B-2.

From his youth, Jack Northrop imagined efficient all-wing aircraft so advanced that technology and power plants needed to support them efficiently were ...

Data collected from previous flying wing aircraft designed and built by Jack Northrop was used to design the B-2, including the small radar cross section discovered with the YB-49.