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Northrop.

Yes but if we had at least one YB-49 would be amazing. I'd love to see it in a museum.

I'd rather we got some Horten Ho 229s

​@@righteousred723No one cares😅

@TurnTimeTable Thirty year old kids only exist today. Axgoodofdunemaul said born in the late 40's. If he was born in 47, he would be 3 in 1950. Then, he would be 13 in 1960 and turn 18 in 65. His childhood spanned 3 decades.

Worked as an engineer in aerospace most of my life. I remember the plastic pocket protector. Didn't like them at first, but after you ruined a few dress shirts, and the effects on your household budget with young children, you changed your mind. As a side effect, you now carried several pens (One was always running out of ink), a few mechanical drafting pencils, and even a six inch ruler for when you ventured into the shop. And it all swapped out with the sliding of the plastic pocket into the clean shirt you'd put on that day.

victoriously through the cold war. Luckily there never broke out a war, as you guys gloriously designed it in a way that would be mass suicide. (MAD) It ain't looking much better today in the world, but at least the following generation saw the absurd idea of mutally assured destruction.

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My dad was also one of these engineer with Rockwell , North American , Saberliner and McDonald Douglas . We was in St Louis Mo . 1953 - 1966 . He had burn out by that amount of time . John Mullinix He is 92 years old now and still kicking .

It was a stolen idea

I agree. I worked down the road from Hawthorne Airport for 15 years. The high point for me was seeing the B-2 fly out one afternoon without warning. What a day that was. I hope Jack was watching.

The YB 35 was a plane that happened too early. Yaw instability made it a poor bombing platform for that day of limited computer control. I always felt that the YB-47 was a complete failure. With the advent of jet engines, A new airfoil (Plan form?) was needed to take advantage of what jet engines could offer. I think it was a tribute to Mr. Northrup, that the aerodynamicists made the B-2 the same wingspan as the YB-35

@@mattinsley1721, I have a post card that was carried in the bomb bay on her maiden flight from Palmdale to Edwards. We where at Edward's waiting for her to land. Our names are on the letter.

Politics ruins everything.

@@krystalbrooks6869 *That is **_incredibly_** cool!*

Ya, I can hardly ever get thru a single episode that does that unless it is a very impressive show... They just killing off repeat viewership is how I see it ultimately.

I agree with you there. I hate those shows that do that

And it almost killed him. A man before his Tim's. What an exciting time for firsts all over the world. Nobody cares any more.

At 75 years old and a lifetime in aircraft design I am not a believer but I admit to having uttered more than one prayer under my breath when testing a design, shithead.

I am neither insane nor an infant (75) just believe in covering all my bets and when you grow up you will know what I mean.

These days some numpty would have just promoted him into "management" and left him to rot.

Military brass, another oxymoron. More like military rust, right down through the centuries.

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken

Why? the B-1 bomber is not a flying wing design. Do you mean the B-2?

There are a lot of misconceptions about this type of airframe designs. Let us look at the truth. 1. The airframe design when following the principles laid down by Jack Northrop. A computer is not needed. The YB49 was not impossible to regain control when power stalled. Robert Cardenas did. He specifically described the problem and how he did it. When power stalled the YB49 did go into a circular roll parallel to the ground along and about an imaginary line from one wingtip to the other wingtip. Due to centrifugal force by the rotation the pilot was affected in one of two ways. A. If the rotation commenced with the cockpit rising up and rotating to the rear of the airframe, the pilots body would be pinned to the seat by centrifugal force. He would not be able to reach the throttle to only one wing to start one bank of 4 engines to full thrust from idle. B. If the roll started with the cockpit going forward and down a centrifugal force in the opposite direction would ensue thrusting him against the safety belts of the pilot seat and pulling his arms out in front of him allowing him to be able to reach the throttles of one bank of engines so that he could start them at full thrust modifying the roll to a rotation in a 90 degree angle to the long axis of the wing resulting in the YB49 modifying the roll into more of a spiral that it is possible to recover the YB49 into normal flight. 2. The yaw problems encountered on a bombing run with the YB 49 were solved by special modifications of a Norton bomb sight. 3. This is a debatable problem that was accidental and at the time, impossible to forsee. The clean lines of this airframe, it's aluminum skin and it's curved surfaces make it unable to reflect enough radar waves back to the radar source. Radar uses electromagnetic radiation to in an assigned frequencies to shoot out into the air in all directions. A portion bounces off of moving things back toward the source. In the case of the YB49, an unintended consequence is, it was invisible to the radars of the day. Today, that's termed as stealth. Immediately, I would expect this to be classified as top secret with knowledge of these properties to be on a strictly need to know basis. Apparently, this is the main reason no further investigation into this airframe and it's unique properties were conducted. If put into production at that time, it would destabilized the cold war. With radar rendered useless a nuclear attack could be accomplished with no warning. Stealth depends upon, as you may know, what's known as radar crossections. The YB49 had a radar crossection that was so small it would be filtered out as electronic noise. The project was scrapped, Jack Northrop was not told until he was old, sick with Parkinson's disease and and very frail, the real reason why. As you may know, the existence of stealth technology was revealed by President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970's in a slip up in a public address. I don't know if it was on purpose or by accident. Why is not important. NASA looked into unconventional aircraft. Jack Northrop went there and gave them a presentation regarding the flying wing. He got a letter from the investigators at NASA. It said that their examination of his principles and materials revealed that the flying wing design was valid and at some point in the future it would be used again. That's all I have...

@@panzerabwerkanone In a delta wing configuration it has some "stealthy" capabilities. Don't ask me to explain. It's just a piece of information I picked up somewhere. But, of course, it's not a B-2 bomber.

William Sanders: would be interesting to investigate if Cunningham could have had ties to the Northrop competitor CONVAIR, who had a direct financial interest. In those days it was pretty easy to buy off governmental officials whose approvals were needed. I cite the case of Howard Hughes' TWA versus Pan American. But here, we have a sergeant in question. Someone in that pay grade would always need to make some more money. Look at the spies who sold out America over the years. Same thing. I think more likely Convair was behind it, and how better for them than to buy off an Air Force Sergeant who was never going to get much higher in rank. They may have convinced him their airplane was better for the nation - and he would feel justified in addition to getting tax free cash.

…okay, I respect that that’s your personal opinion, but I have to disagree, and if I could cite but one reason: the B-2 actually flies. Let’s cite a few more reasons: it entered production. It serves a viable role in warfare. It doesn’t crash if you look at it funny. The engines don’t overheat and blow out every few minutes. It successfully utilizes Stealth technology (all hail Skunkworks). It isn’t my favorite plane (Blackbird, followed by Nighthawk), but it’s far and away better than any flying wing design that has come before it.

+Pops Brink you are very welcome sir!

Pops Brink me too. those were the days when men were giants!!! we are now a fallen people.

Pops Brink .

@@bassmith448bassist5 I think we were tripped.

not to mention the ending days of ww2 the horten brothers built a simaler style bomber, but people only want to credit that to the germans after all we americans are too stupid to be able to do things that that, or not without german help right? though was not the case in the days of the greatest generation, for all the so called problems of an earlier age, they say the same thing of rockets and nasa, and jets, but they forgot about ol kelly johnson, and the ls1 or the one the germans sciantests before the nazis got their ideas for the v1 and v2 from american robert hutchings godard an american of dutch decent, who also designed a bazooka like device in ww1 that came too late for use on tanks, and liquid fueled rockets as well as fin stablized and multi stage rocket concepts. we did it eventually and I remember the story at age 10 or so watching this on the wings marathan on the discovery channel, it was very touching that Jack finnaly got to see the product of his early concepts, made me kind of sad on the part about the gov making them cut up and scrap all the designs earlier on, would have been neat to see one of those in the museume, but yes they finally got wise and have limiters on what angle you can pull up to with the b2 spirit, and its a very efficent low radar design by nature. back when the discovery channel was actually educational, not just reality tv for certain curiousities, and had a broad variety of topics they covered, history was also good till the stopped with the documentries in egypt under dr hawas, right after the arab spring, but I will leave politics out of this for now wax fond memories of the past.

Horton brothers flew their jet-powered "B2" in the 40's - it took Northrop pretty long to make it bigger/better...

Best and only real part of the film. I remember seeing the film when it first came out. I was so scared when the Martian appeared in the basement that I dived below the seat in front. My mum used to take my younger sister and me to the Capital Picture House, Antrim Road, Belfast, in the early 1950s before our abortive emigration to Canada, August 1957 (remember the panic about Sputnik a couple of months later?). Cinema and mom (prematurely) both gone now, sadly. A piece of Art Deco demolished to make way for a supermarket. Progress, don’t you just love it?

Ralph Curran NOT anymore !!!! They crashed it and killed the pilot about a month ago !!!! Sad but the last flying wing is gone !!!

We're coming back. Don't you worry. We refuse to die on our knees as communists try to take over our country.

Something called 'systematic error' - say, in procedure followed.

just as long as it doesn't have to land...

*Fascinated!!!!* Not faszinated ;-) Yes, the YB-49 was a victim of SEVERAL Corrupt Acts. From the Crew Chief to Convair, to Symington and other BOUGHT members of Congress!!

You mean B-47, right?

B-36

William R Warren Jr I was referring to the Northrop Flying Wing which was in direct competition with the Boeing B-17 for the front line bomber job. The 'Wing' was decades ahead of its time. Today's B-117 Stealth bomber is the current iteration of the flying wing concept. NASA Makes use of the 'wing' concept in many of its utting edge designs.

Amazing how far in advance they were thinking it out and designing it.

So other countries can't come look right at it and study it..they also cost a shitload

*In 1987 I was working as a consultant at Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio, and on my way out the [as of then, still unannounced] B2 landed while I was being walked to my car by the Colonel I reported to. I remember staring at the thing, trying to figure out what was "wrong with this picture" for a few seconds - the design was so radically different from anything else that I just couldn't process it! When I asked him what that thing on the runway was, he told me there was nothing on the runway, and it suddenly all made sense. It was **_freaky!_** The B2 was shown to the world shortly afterwards, and all of the people I worked with were like "is **_that_** what you were talking about at Wright?" - why **_yes,_** that would be it! The few people I discussed my sighting with all thought I had just seen a plane landing at an odd angle and had drawn an incorrect picture of it in my mind: the televised proof was quite gratifying! Several years later I saw it at the July 4th airshow, and it really was **_glorious!_** I can't remember many times that I've been quite so proud of American ingenuity as I was with the B2. Not just the wing design either - the fact that it had the radar cross section of a bumble bee was the technological "cherry on the cake". An **_absolutely beautiful_** aircraft!*

Your Tutor I reckon! What a dude.

Propaganda sucks, doesn’t it?

yes me...lol..glad i'm not the only one.....

woah wtf how did you know

Robert Cardenas has stated in other interviews that the YB-49 was not a stable bombing platform due to the tailless wing not being stable in yaw. It kept drifting off target, and did not meet the Air Force specification. It took decades of development of fly-by-wire to overcome this problem, then the B-2 could be built.

GLEN Dooer it ain’t common core , that’s for sure

@@leefithian3704 makes me sad when I hear about what common core is doing to my brother 😂 I'm not saying it's a worse way of teaching, but kids are seeming to be more simple minded these days.

They wew beyond smart, they were all brilliant. Sometimes a bit mis-directed, but they were all brilliant. Designing machines that FLY......on paper and that others can build from AND fly at or near the speed of sound to boot.............from that basic design that they come up with is amazing.

I hear you brother! Those days are sorely missed here too.

Discovery has gone to the dark side, the deep state. Trump will stop them.

TLC, Discovery and History Channel are anything but these days, showing only tripe and crap now days. National Geographic channel is not far behind

you guys are right. DIY is the same, must be why we are all here watching these videos!!

Yea, they, still play this stuff. They just play it on the channel specifically for this, otherwise known as the American HEROES Channel. Used to be called 'The Military Channel' and was called that for YEARS. Its not fuckin brain surgery. They have way too much programming to try to fit it all on one channel any longer. Hence their reasoning for expanding to multiple channels with specific subject matter. Jesus Christ, people. Common sense ain't so fuckin common these days. Explains why so many dumbfucks support not-president chump aka Twitter King aka butthurt bitch aka balding Donnie. Reminds me of all of the 'cool kids' in high school. Fast forward 10 years and most of em are bald and fuckin fat now Lmfao. Yet I still have just as much hair as I had in high school and still weigh just the same, too. Gotta suck turning into a fat, bald fuckin mess. 😆 Sucks to be you! Who has the last laugh now, ya fat bald bitch? 😆🤣

Yes it's a dismal situation today in the TV world. Here is a really good doc from Discovery Channel 32 years ago. Ninety minutes of history and people, events and ideas - all carefully laid out. No filler, no repeating shots and scenes. Compare Discovery Channel today. Endless repeating stuff they said before the commercial break. Incorrect information, facts and figures. Typically no idea what they are even talking about. Formatted for the mindless viewers of Television. Bad news for USA I'm sorry to say. Uneducated population ready to be put under the Autocrats rule!

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@@peterson7082 !

Lol and me, l was listening to music and also woke to vid finished 👍🏻

Heard somewhere by a B-2 pilot that the plane won't let you crash it.

Yeah, if you like getting stuck on the 405.

The YB-49 was far superior to the B-36. To think they spent billions to produce the B-2 which has the same basic design of the YB-49 but with far more advanced avionics. Sorry, someone wanted the YB-49 not to succeed as with the TSR-2. POLITICS OR WHAT?

217rnswr If not because the DoD insist the merger of Northrop and Convair. But Jack is a though guy and won't do it with any reason.

Mr Northrop was proved to be right.....