![]() Note to re your : Check out Gary Pape's excellent book on Northrop Wings. How come only Northrop's aircraft were destroyed on purpose for not having paid USAF PARCING FEES ? i have never ever read such reason anymore for many other aircraft from different ar enough none of the famous big wing aircraft have been preserved also. Contracts were torn up planes destroyed, and a new more efficient class of air frame was quashed for years. When Northrup refused,Symington became a personal enemy to Northrup. Symington and friends would have been major stockholders, they were to "grease the skids and open a new era in aircraft. Symington offered Northrup a deal for a new startup company. It's like the P-38 limited to Allisons rather than Merlins because something had to use all those Allisons.when they put a Merlin in the P-51, it outclassed everything. It must have been politics right down the line (after all, who was President? Where is Lockheed /GD?) OK. With split chin intakes, the Boeing X-32 would have beat out Lockheed too, especially the delta winged version. Northrop had the edge in the Black Widow 2, look how the Chinese have copied it. Look at the last two major fighter competitions. Anything unconventional is initially going to be expensive and have teething problems (although I don't know if the V-22s were worth it). This is the same as the B-58s being used as negotiating chips. See my eBook "Goodbye Beautiful Wing" on Amazon. The AF Generals tried, but they just didn't understand aerodynamics. These are 'configuration parameters' and as both planes used the same engine, nothing - nothing - could be done to improve the B-36 that couldn't be done to the B-35. The B-35 was far superior to the B-36 in every instance. Performance depends on wing loading, power loading, wetted area per HP, and fineness ratio. The top pic is gthe YB-35 the bottom is the XB-35. There were many problems with the propellers and gearboxes, but the first XB-35 made its maiden flight on 25 June 1946, followed by the second in the following year.Ĥ x Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major, 2237kW A further 13 aircraft, designated YB-35, were ordered in early 1943. In November 1941 the USAAF ordered two prototype XB-35 flying wing bombers, powered by four 2237kW Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major piston engines driving eight-bladed counter-rotating pusher propellers.
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