"Flying Wing"

[Jason S.]

The flying wing clip is now up.

http://www.vimeo.com/12242385

[ignomini]

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Great videos, thanks for sharing. Here's some stills to go with your video.

[Bob]

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Jason,
Thank you for posting all the videos. Your very good.
Bob

[wolfee]

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I have never seen that fly.. Not in vid or in person till now.. Very nice, and graceful looking n the air... but it sure sounds different..


Thanks for the vid.

[Jason S.]

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Thanks guys, it's definitely a unique aircraft.
Wolfee, I think one of the reasons that it sounds so different is the fact that the engines are buried in the forward part of the wing and the exhaust has a longer run and is more muffled. Here is a video someone posted showing an engine run with the cowl open and you can see the drive shaft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9SMQ...eature=related

Jason

[Lockheed Bob]

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Too bad Jack Northrop (Designer) didn't get to see the B2 fly.

[AAFO_WSagar]

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Too bad Jack Northrop (Designer) didn't get to see the B2 fly.

They did take him to see it completed though didn't they Bob? I seem to remember seeing something of it in a documentary... He died not long after, as I remember...

PS.. GOOD job on the videos Jason!

[sierra fox]

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They did take him to see it completed though didn't they Bob? I seem to remember seeing something of it in a documentary... He died not long after, as I remember...

PS.. GOOD job on the videos Jason!

i remember them giving Jack a scale model of the B2 and telling him it was identical, dimension wise, to the YB-49

[AAFO_WSagar]

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I'll never forget Charlie Tucker talking about flying that sucker!

[RAD2LTR]

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I got to see this little guy out flying a few years back. I was down at a friends place in Agora and looked up and there it was. It was pretty cool. I wish I had my camera for that.

Will

[Leo]

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The documentary "The Wing will Fly" is a 90 minute history of Jack Northrop and the wing. VERY good with interviews with Max Stanley and others associated with it. It ends with the story of them showing him the B-2 and presenting the model.

[ignomini]

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Many years ago Jack Northrop came to a local EAA meeting with a stack of 16mm films of the wings. This was years before the documentaries we've seen today, so the flying sequences were beyond anything I had ever seen before. To say he was passionate about the flying wing would be an understatement. And the things he had to say about the politics of the B-36, well, not repeatable in polite conversation.

[hattend]

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Seeing the B2 and knowing that is was going into production, Jack Northrop said "I now know why God kept me alive" (paraphrased)

Don

[airtj]

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Is their a good book to read about the flying wing? Does any one know how many pilots fly the POF flying wing? Thanks

[hattend]

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The TV show "The Wing Will Fly" was based on the book "Jack Northrop and the Flying Wing". I got my copy on Amazon. but it's out of print.

Here is an amazon link to books available:

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=northrop+flying+wings&tag=yahhyd-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=18659415511&ref=pd_sl_39yuzzfe5s_b

Don