The Northrop YB-49 was an American prototype jet-powered heavy bomber developed by Northrop Corporation shortly after World War II for service with the...
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The Northrop YB-35/XB-35, Northrop designation N-9 or NS-9, were experimental heavy bomber aircraft developed by the Northrop Corporation for the United...
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aircraft, to produce the Northrop F-89 Scorpion all-weather interceptor, the Northrop YB-49 long-range bomber, the Northrop Snark intercontinental missile...
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ceiling: 21,500 ft (6,600 m) Related development Northrop N-1 Northrop N-1M Northrop YB-35 Northrop YB-49 Northrop XP-79 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration...
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Northrop Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its 1994 merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman. The...
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proposal code named "Senior Peg". Northrop had prior experience developing the YB-35 and YB-49 flying wing aircraft. The Northrop design was larger and had curved...
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forerunner of the larger Northrop YB-35 and YB-49 bombers. Related development Northrop N-1M Northrop N-9M Northrop YB-35 Northrop YB-49 Aircraft of comparable...
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development Northrop N-1 Northrop N-9M Northrop YB-35 Northrop YB-49 Northrop XP-79 Heavily illustrated, authoritative N-1M article. "Northrop N1M". National...
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North American XB-45 Tornado North American XP-86 Sabre Northrop F-89 Scorpion Northrop YB-49 Republic F-84 Thunderjet Vought F7U-3 Cutlass (interim test...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Northrop YB-49)
of the later Northrop HL-10 aircraft. Paramount Pictures' 1953 film, The War of the Worlds incorporates color footage of a Northrop YB-49 test flight,...
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Edwards (1918–1948), who was killed a year earlier in the crash of the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing. During World War II, he flew A-20 Havoc light attack bombers...
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superseded the next year by conversion of the type to jet power as the YB-49 of 1947. Initially, the design did not offer a great advantage in range...
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nacelles, blisters and other housings. Blended wing body Lifting body Northrop Flying Wings: Planes of Fame, Edward Maloney, ISBN 9780915464005 Development...
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prototype Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing is prominently featured in the atomic-bombing sequence. Pal and Haskin incorporated Northrop color footage of a YB-49 test...
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List of bomber aircraft List of military aircraft of the United States Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, US heavy bomber under development "B-17G Flying Fortress"...
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development Horten Ho 229 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Northrop YB-49 Related lists List of jet aircraft of World War II List of flying wing...
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Martians is an atomic bomb dropped by a Thunder Child replacement, a Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing jet bomber; the atomic bomb proves useless, because the...
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The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation...
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uncoated windows. "Flying wing" aircraft, such as the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing and the Northrop B-2 Spirit bomber have no separate fuselage; instead...
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The Northrop YF-17 (nicknamed "Cobra") was a prototype lightweight fighter aircraft designed by Northrop aviation for the United States Air Force's Lightweight...
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implemented in the USSR and the US: Lavochkin La-160, Mikoyan MiG-15, Northrop YB-49, McDonnell XF-85. But in the USSR such fences were used more often and...
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The Northrop F-20 Tigershark (initially F-5G) is a prototype light fighter, designed and built by Northrop. Its development began in 1975 as a further...
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F-5, YF-17, and F-20. However, Northrop was best known for it experimental flying wing aircraft, the XB-35 and YB-49 of the late 1940s and early 1950s...
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The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter technology demonstrator prototype designed for the United...
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The Northrop X-4 Bantam is a prototype small twinjet aircraft manufactured by Northrop Corporation in 1948. It had no horizontal tail surfaces, depending...
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The Northrop P-61 Black Widow is a twin-engine United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft of World War II. It was the first operational U.S. warplane...
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replaced by the jet-powered YB-49 on 21 October 1947 from the Northrop Field at Hawthorne, California, piloted by Northrop's chief test pilot, Max Stanley...
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The Northrop F-89 Scorpion is an all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Northrop Corporation...
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I.Ae. 38 Naranjero I.Ae. 41 Urubú Nike PUL 9 Amerikabomber Northrop YB-35 Northrop YB-49 Fábrica Militar de Aviones Alsomitra German inventors and discoverers...
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