Flying Wing Tribute

Welcome to my newest tribute to the Flying wings of America,
sorry there wasn't alot of N9M or XB-35 or YB-49 images, neither Yahoo or Google had the right ones, guess they're not that popular now

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• N9M
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• Believing

[Tu49]

I was wrong I'll admit it, honestly though it's pretty cool to proven wrong with creditable evidence rather that stupid idiots with a tenous grasp on history

[psneves]

Not stolen.... gained from gernany.. which had just lost a war... and as such. had its technnology givem away. wouldn´t call that "stealing.."

by the way.. had germany won the war we´d all be flying in thase "craps" around the world by now. and. the first fly by wire would be invented in 1950 probably.

[Tu49]

F-16 was the first to have fly by wire, in the 80's,

and dont diss german designes

[kriegmeister3000]

It was stolen like eveything else. Next you'll say that it fell into the hands of.

[Tu49]

look it up, the N-1M was made before the horten flyer first flew, either before it flew or during the same time

[Dreachon]

@Tu49

Actually your are incorrect, the N1M first flew in 1940.

The first Horten flying wing flew in 1933, in 1937 the Horten had build and flown the twin-engined Ho-V flying wing.

[aandc2005]

Jack Northrop is one of my heros :)

[historatia]

@braindead78 Forgot to mention that not only did Alexander Lippisch design the first tailless wings as gliders while at Zeppelin he also designed the first ever tailless craft to have powered flight, the "delta 1" in 1931. He's the man who got the Hortens started.

[historatia]

@braindead78 As a kid I lived just after the war in officer's mess rubble of the destroyed Luftwaffe base (Bad Zwischenahn) which is the only airfeld from which ME-163 was put into service. I actually played in the two remaining destroyed Me-163 carcasses that were trapped in and under the rubble, with no idea of their significance until decades later. I ran across pictures of the airbase before it was destroyed with Me-163's in front of the wrecked building that we had lived in. Small world.

[historatia]

@braindead78 I think that any kid who folded a piece of paper had the idea? Anyway if you look at the drawings Otto Lilienthal made you will find it there. The first design actually build was by Alexander Lippisch who was working for Zeppelin at the time. Gottlob Espenlaub actually built it in 1921 as the Lippisch-Espenlaub E-2 glider. He did MANY talless designs and ended up designing the famous ME-163 rocket plane.

[braindead78]

@historatia True, it might have been conceptualized before Nazi Germany, but when did it come to light? and how was it funded?

[historatia]

@braindead78 Actually the flying wing concept did NOT orginate in Nazi Germany. That era started 1933, the Hortons and others were already working on it in the 1920's, so Weimar Germany.

[historatia]

@psneves You must be an American. The correct words are "reverse engineered", but the patents were definitely 'STOLEN', and even more foolishly, the US decided NOT to pick up the Horton's and use their services as they did with von Braun.

[historatia]

@Tu49 Where do you get the ridiculous idea that Northrup had "developed the idea of a flying wing long before the Horton's had? What's more the first powered wing flight (the Ho II model AFTER experimental flights was flown by Hanna Reitsch for testing for the Luftwaffe in 1938, long before the N-1M. Get your fact straight.