Restored Vintage Northrop N9MB Flying Wing---Rare Sight !

Great video and fabulous aircraft. Does it still fly?

No, as of November 2009 this aircraft is not yet flying after experiencing an engine fire in 2006. The engines in this aircraft are very rare 300-horsepower Franklin 0-540-7, 8-cylinder engines. Both engines are in need of rebuilding. Of the 27 of these engines originally built only 3 are known to still exist and two of them are on this aircraft. New cylinder heads are needed for the rebuilds. HOWEVER, new cylinder heads are currently being manufactured from scratch.

the original concept came from austria and the hortens had their first prototypes flying in the early 30's. the final one from 1942 is stored and rusting near washington DC and would put northropp's "copy" to shame. there was a documentary showing the horten prototypes flying on TV. my jaw literally dropped open seeing it.

some people just have a hard time admitting that the germans and austrians developed and even made this concept stable. it is a known fact that northropp needed in the 80's 6 fridge-sized computers due to stability issues to have their bomber flying well. even RC models fly better than the northropp planes. furtheron the prototype and the construction papers were stolen and available to northropp and "they did not understand it" was one of the hortens last statement in the 90's about it.

dogsbd, the fact is, that northrop worked on Horten prototypes to design the B-2, wich iwas clearly inspired by it.

the YB 35 and YB-49 were never used because they were poorly designed, while the Ho 229 could out-speed and out-turn the best jet fighter of its time the Me 262, and even came close to Göring's 1000-1000-1000 doctrine.

I hate the way you guys can't just admit that german technology was waaay ahead of US.
Nearly everything they create even nowadays is based on nazi technologies.

"northrop worked on Horten prototypes"

By "worked on" I assume you mean studied. But, do you know this for a fact? It wouldn't be unusual however, all companies study previous works in their field. The Hortens didn't work in a vacuum either, I'll bet they studied what they could find of Jack Northrops flying wing designs. The Northrop YB bombers were excellent aircraft, politics killed them not design issues. And the US P80 was a better fighter than the Me262, so much for Nazi superiority.

the US P80 was a better fighter than the Me262" better at what than which version of the 262 ?
Besides, on which facts do you base that statement ?
Plus the nazis had lots of other prototypes which they were working on and most of them were quite impressive in a technical point of wiew.

And no, the YB bombers were no excellent bombers, they had no precision in bombing do to stability issues.

Top speed: Me 262 A-1a - 550mph / P80A- 600mph
Initial climb: Me 262 A-1a -3937 fpm / P80A- 4580 fpm
Sustained Climb: Me 262 A-1a - 6.8 mins to 19,685 ft / P80A- 5.5 minutes to 20,000 ft
Service ceiling: Me 262 A-1a - 37,565 ft / P80A- 45,000 ft
P80 also had a higher roll rate and could turn inside the Me262.

And Northrop had a yaw dampener that solved the YB49's "stability issues".

First flight: Me 262 A-1a 18 July 1942 / P80A 8 January 1944.

In 2 years many thing had changed. If you want to compare the P80 with a german plane, you'd better compare it with the prototypes and projects of the end of the war, like the Me 262 HG II and HG III, the Lippisch P.13a, Horten Ho XIII and so on..

I'd be more than happy to make those comparisons! Since those hypothetical aircraft you list never flew the P-80 was most definitely better.