Flying Wing Northrop N1M & N1M-2

The Northrop N1M and N1M-2 Flying wings. Extremely rare color video of the first flight and following flights of the Northrop flying wing prototypes.
This film was shot in 1940. These aircraft were the pioneers of flying wing design in America and were the foundation for the N9M series of flying wings and eventually evolved into the modern day B-2 Spirit bomber. The ultimate flying wing. This genius design is thanks to Jack Northrop, who designed and built the YB-35 and YB-49 flying wing bombers of the 1940's. The YB-35 was developed from the XB-35 and was designed to eliminate drag and weight to maximize ordinance load and range. The YB-35 was powered by 4 Pratt-Whitney R-4360 Radial engines powering a contra-rotating Prop system in the pusher configeration. The YB-49 was derived from the YB-35 airframes modified for jet engines. When the government cancelled the flying wings, all remaining flying wings were scrapped. My father help build and later destroy (scrap) the the YB-35 and YB-49 flying wing bombers. He was always sad when he talked about destroying those beautiful aircraft. The only airframes to escape this fate were the original prototype aircraft, the N1M and the later N9M. The N1M is on display at the Air Force museum and the N9M was stored in Marina Del Rey until it was obtained by Ed Maloney, a pioneer of American Aviation museums and was painfully restored over a 10 year period. Dad also spent many years on the restoration project for the N9M as one of the few people still around at that time who had any actual experience in construction of the original flying wings. The N9M is currently in flight status, is owned and being flown by the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California. Visit the Planes of Fame air museum site at;
http://www.planesoffame.org

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[witheveryatom]

looks like a blended body

[TJDOZIER1]

@witheveryatom

"Blended Body" aircraft have a tail assembly and may have structure OUTSIDE of the wing body.

A true "flying wing" is a tailess aircraft with crew quarters and/or other areas included inside the wing body.

[TJDOZIER1]

The Northrop "1929 Flying Wing" was not a flying wing, it had a tail assembly.

It was not a failure, it was a successful step toward the N1M, which is considered to be Northrops first "flying wing". It's first flight was on July 3, 1940.

The Horten Brothers successfully flew the Ho5-B in 1938

Both were piston powered aircraft.

in 875, Abbas Ibn Firnas, a Muslim, sucessfully flew his glider, which crashed on

landing because it did not have a tail, making it a flying wing.

[shimon174b]

Thank You!!! What great footage!!!

[Dreachon]

@TJDOZIER1

In this case I do have to agree with Historatia, Lottowinner here is the agressor, he is the one attacking people with post that contain nothing but lies, vitrol and hate aimed at others, you should see the other bilefull junk he throws at people, it's scary to see so much hatred in one person.

He'll attack anybody that doesn't agree with him.

[historatia]

@TJDOZIER1 If you read my posts you will realize that I asked Lotto to find another more appropriate vid under which to have the off-topic discussion, and that my posts are there to protect the historical truth from the comments that assail it. I'm happy to have any and all postings removed that are "off-topic", but believe that corrections of "false claims" on that are "on-topic" should stay..

[Dreachon]

@TJDOZIER1

Thank you for your kind answer.

[TJDOZIER1]

@LottoWinner999

This is your only warning. You are free to make whatever comments you want to on my channel and videos, but stop the hate and racist comments or go to someones elses channel to espouse your social views. My videos are about aircraft, not political or social issues.

So either stop making racist and hateful comments, or be blocked from my channel.

I am sending the same message to the person you are arguing with here.

[TJDOZIER1]

@historatia

This is your only warning. You are free to make whatever comments you want to on my channel and videos, but stop the hate and racist comments or go to someones elses channel to espouse your social views. My videos are about aircraft, not political or social issues.

So either stop making racist and hateful comments, or be blocked from my channel.

I am sending the same message to the person you are arguing with here.

[TJDOZIER1]

@Dreachon

If you watch my video named Northrop Flights 1, a video that was produced by Northrop Corporation,

it states 3 July, 1940 as the date of the first N1M flight. My father worked on the YB-35 and XB-49 flying wings at Northrop in the 1940's. He also was a team member and wing expert on the N9M restoration project at Planes of Fame Air Museum. We still operate the N9M at POF.