Why was the flying wing discontinued?
Northrop’s Flying Wing program may have been terminated due to its technical difficulties and the program being behind schedule and over budget. Another possible contributing factor to the cancellation may have been Northrop spreading its small engineering staff too widely in other experimental programs. In the interview, John Knudsen Northrop, an aircraft designer and manufactur- er, charged that his successful Flying Wing aircraft design had been cancelled in retaliation for his refusal to knuckle under to demands by the Secretary of the Air Force that he merge his firm with a larger, more favored aviation .
Was the flying wing a real plane?
In 1941 Northrop was awarded a development contract to build 2 examples of the YB-35 flying wing, a very large 4 engined flying wing with a span of 172′. Development and construction of this aircraft continued throughout World War II. Before the aircraft could be brought under control, the nose landing gear collapsed and the No. YB-49 broke in two and was destroyed. The flying wing bomber concept would remain dormant until the appearance of the Northrop B-2 Spirit stealth bomber nearly 40 years after the last flight of the YB-49.
What was Hitler’s secret bomber?
Horten Ho 229. The Horten H. IX, RLM designation Ho 229 (or Gotha Go 229 for extensive re-design work done by Gotha to prepare the aircraft for mass production) was a German prototype fighter/bomber designed by Reimar and Walter Horten to be built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik. Building on knowledge gained by flying the Horten H V and H ‘VII, Reimar designed and built the piloted glider version, the Ho 229 V1, which test pilot Heinz Schiedhauer first flew 28 February 1944.
What is Adolf Hitler’s real last name?
Adolf Schickelgruber changed his name to Adolf Hitler, a not uncommon sirname in the Corinthian province of Austria where he was born, and where indeed some of his relatives had that name. Adolf Schickelgruber changed his name to Adolf Hitler, a not uncommon sirname in the Corinthian province of Austria where he was born, and where indeed some of his relatives had that name. Europe’s other modern mass murderer, Josef Stalin, went one step further and created his own surname, Stalin, the man of steel.