Although the YB-49 never reached full production, experience with the frame helped validate the concept which now dominates international thinking on strategic bomber design. As the United States ...

Although the YB-49 never reached full production, experience with the frame helped validate the concept which now dominates international thinking on strategic bomber design.

On May 4, 1950, the Northrop YRB-49A-a reconnaissance variant of the experimental YB-49 flying wing-took its first flight. Though the program was ultimately canceled, the data and innovation ...

The YB-49 demonstrated that putting jet engines on an airframe designed for piston engines made the aircraft faster but not better. SI Neg. #93-11863~A In 1941, When it appeared that Britain’s ...

The YB-49's range was now more compatible with the Boeing XB-47 Stratojet medium range bomber, and the design's thick airfoil prevented maximum high speed performance.

The images above provide an interesting comparative study of the nose sections of Northrop’s YB-49 circa the late 1940s and present day’s Northrop Grumman’s B-2A Spirit stealth bomber. Jack ...

Northrop YB-49 The YB-49 evolved from the flying wing work of the XB-35 and would effect the development of bomber and reconnaissance aircraft.

A queer, tailless bird, the YB-49 is powered by eight jet engines, with a thrust roughly equivalent to 32,000 h.p., making it the most powerful bomber in the world and one of the fastest.

The Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing was the dream and obsession of aircraft designer Jack K. Northrop, and the experimental plane was born in Southern California.

NASA has revealed designs for quiet-running, energy-efficient planes which owe their existence to the Northrop YB-49 "flying wing" aircraft designed for the US Air Force in the 1950s but never ...

The Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing was the dream and obsession of aircraft designer Jack K. Northrop, and the experimental plane was born in Southern California.