The Italian Stipa-Caproni experimental aircraft featured a tube-shaped fuselage similar in design to modern turbofans.

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The Army is examining whether its unprecedented digital engineering design efforts will enable it to field FLRAA earlier than 2030.

Retaining tail booms and fins with a tailplane, the design eventually became knowns as the “Northrop Flying Wing.” The aircraft first flew in 1929.

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Luce’s aircraft was flying low to the ground and about 750 feet behind the lead Osprey — three times the safe minimum distance required.

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The lessons learned from the proof-of-concept Vought V-173 helped in the design of subsequent flying-wing aircraft, ultimately leading to those B-2 and B-21 strategic bombers.