Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet

[fiverats1]

No it wasnt @ below. It was a northop blended body dropped from a B-52. Lol look harder

[TangoJulietPhoto]

The crash footage is the one used at the beginning of "The Six Million Dollar Man" TV series. The actual Test Pilot was still working for Northrup in the mid 90's and had bitter feelings about it.

[carmium]

Funny how often a person who is "into" aircraft can just look at a design and say "Na-ah. Won't work." This has na-ah written all over it.

[Indogyearsimdead]

Who wants to bailout?

[krbosak]

J7W1 Shinden looks 100% better.

[cobrala]

@krbosak Totally different concept of flying

[krbosak]

@cobrala Of course, but the looks.Purely subjective, but I dont like barrel style fuselages.

[vascoribeiro69]

Longitudinal control problems I guess...

[RoflMcCopterson]

I fly one of these to school...

[MrFattyfatfatboy]

@RoflMcCopterson i used to a well but then my neighbours complained about the noise and the fact it lloked strange made people tease me.

[Cavelson]

Hope  XP-56 could do 400 mph at least

[beowulf342000]

DFS published all thru the 1930s, Why did Jack deviate so far from the norm?

[InfiniteMushroom]

@beowulf342000 Jack didn't have supercomputers telling him he couldn't try something radical from time to time. That's why so many interesting and innovative aircraft designs came along before supercomputers took all the daring and creativity out of R&D.

[licht6977]

me163 lookalike

[binaway]

@licht6977 Pre-dates it by me163 by about 4 years. So the me163 is a xp-56 lookalike

[kuluku]

XP-56 and XF-85, cute combat aircrafts.

[WelcomeToTheUSSA]

cool