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 ...

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.

The shuttering of the program was particularly hard on Jack Northrop, who had personally invested so much in the flying wing. In 1952, he sold his holdings in his company and retired.

The 38,000-square-foot hangar is located at 3507 Jack Northrop Ave. at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport. Sherwood Real Estate Partners, ...

Jack Northrop's Black Bullet came about on July 17, 1939. The XP-56 was an attempt to radically improve combat aircraft performance by using an unconventional, near all-wing, airframe design. Although ...

Jack Northrop had left his own company in Nov. 1952 at the age of 57, and his dreams of a flying wing bomber were abandoned. The last hope for the XB-35 airframes, ...