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 ... - The business end of the Northrop YB-49. Some 32,000 Ib of thrust is exerted through the eight nozzles. ;
ALL-|ET BOMBER AIR FORCE?
U.S. Air Policy and Bomber Development
THE question-mark on the signpost suggests thatbefore ...
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 ...bove theskin of the aircraft. When the sextant
is in the " down " position, a link motion
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ensures that the hatch will close flushwith the skin of the aircraft and prevent
leakage of cabin pressure.
Northrop YB-49 Trials
TN the course of a recent endurance testflight, a Northrop YB-49 eight-jet fly-
ing wing remained air-borne for ninehours, 30 minutes; this is claimed to be
the longest period fo...
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 ... official description
"heavy" as applied to Britain's new jet-bomber projects.
In the U.S.A. only the 278,000-lb Brabazon-size Convair
B-36 is so styled, the 125,000-lb XB-47 Stratojet and
213,000-lb Northrop YB-49 Jetwing being categorized as
"medium," and the 83,000-lb North American B-45 as a
" light " bomber. In size and weight Britain's " heavies"
will probably match the Northrop "Wing" more ...
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 ...Russo-
Gennanic conception; the army-support Martin XB-51;
the Boeing XB-47 Stratojet (already being built in series),
and—largest, and having the longest range, though not in
quantity production—the Northrop YB-49 flying wing. Of
This frontal aspect of the Canberra scales with the views opposite...
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 ...B-2'S CHANGING SHAPE
When the US Air Force changed the B-2's mission, Northrop was forced into a $1 hillion redesign of its
stealth bomber. Guy Norris reports. J
ust days before the opening of the P...
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 ...Ad
Inexplorata
Just after the turn of the century a pioneer family by the name of Corum trekked across the Mojave desert in
southern California. They settled on the
west shore of Rodriguez Dry Lak...
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 ...ing has been very considerably exceeded,
without the usual deterioration in stability.
Evidently the Canberra is amenable to adaptation for
These two views afford an excellent com-parison between the Northrop YB-49
eight-jet all-wing bomber (left) and itspiston-engined precursor, the XB-35
(below). Note that elimination of pro-pellers has necessitated fin area...
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 ...LIGHT
11 December IS
214 The ramjet-powered Leduc 0.1Q (1947) and its "mothership." 215 Largest heavier-than-air craft: the Hughes Hercules of 1947.
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216 Wellsian in concept was the Northrop YB-49 bomber of 1947.
217 Korean victor: the North American Sabre (1947).
218 (Right) Post-war liner: Boeing Stratocruiser of 1947.
THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS . . .
(1947 Cont.) * We have reco...
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 ...essor,
an annular combustion chamber, and a turbine with several stages. No data have yetbeen released. When they reach a sufficiently advanced stage of development
Turbodynes may be installed in the Northrop YB-49 flying-wing bomber. The firstYB-49 will probably have eight General Electric l-U>s, to give the total requirement
of-33,ooo lb. th?
P upon the sales agree-•*- ment between Rolls-Royce a...
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 ...LIGHT, 20 April 1950
Kind to air particles : This head-on view of the Northrop YB-49 Jet-Wing bomber illustrates its clean, drag-free toes and landing-gear
design. The YB-49 was an eight-jet conversion of the piston-engined B-35. ,; ..- .• * .
CHRONIC SONICS
Variations ...
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 ...ipment for the helicopters themselves, and some interesting
results have been obtained.
Close-up of unit, showing tfe G.E.C. low-intensity approach-light
fitting under the scetw.
JET ENDURANCEW
HEN a Northrop YB-49 eight-jet bomber remained air
borne for nine and a half hours recently its averag*
ground speed was 382 m.p.h. All eight of its J-35 turbojets
were used continuously, except one, which,...
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 ....p.h. between Muroc, California, and OklahomaCity. Later, the trip from Oklahoma City to Wright Field
was completed at 533 m.p.h.Plans are in hand for a Los Angeles-Washington flight by
the eight-jet Northrop YB-49 bomber.
A VERSION of the Northrop Pioneer three-engined fixed-undercarriage civil feeder-line transport (the prototype
of •which has unfortunately crashed) has been adopted by theU.S. A...
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 ...ialization inthis field are to be provided. The first of
the new courses will start, if possible, atthe beginning of the new term in
October.
Flying Wing CrashI
T has been reported from America thata Northrop YB-49 crashed while on a
test flight at Muroc Field, California.The crew of five lost their lives. The
YB-49 is an eight-jet bomber of the"flying wing" type and has an all-up
weight of betwee...
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The United States Air Force experi-mental centre at Muroc Dry Lake,
California, has been named EdwardsAir Force Base, in commemoration of
Capt. (i. W. Edwards, who was killedwhile testing a Northrop YB-49 in June,
1948. AH U.S.A.F". bases are beingnamed after personnel who have lost
their lives in service.
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G/C. E. M. Donaldson, who won the
world's air-speed record for Britai...
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 ...t of
the Republic P-84 (Thunderjet) and later in the twin-jet
Douglas XB-43 bomber. The North American XB-45, and
Consolidated Vultee XB-46 have four TG 180s apiece, the
Martin XB-48 has six, and the Northrop YB-49 has eight.
The axial-flow compressor of the TG 180 has eleven stages
and the two-piece aluminium alloy stator casing has eleven
rows of steel compressor blades, one row of steel inlet g...
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 ...thing is gravely
wrong when we are able to
obligate $23 billion without
flying an aeroplane," adds
US Representative Ron
Dellums gloomily.
Well Ron, it has flown,
and it flies better than the
Northrop YB-49 did 40
years ago.
I remember the predic
tion that by 1999 the entire
US defence budget would
buy only one aircraft.
Should this now be
Irish Independent, July 20
amended to zero...
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 ...TRAIGHT A LEVEL
"Appealing little cousin oftheAW52 and Northrop YB-49", it says here, 1949
Capt Speaking: "Sorry
about the rough landing
Folks — it's a bit bumpy
out there..."
First Officer Here:
"Actually, Folks, it's dead
calm out there. That was...
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 ...FLIGHT, 29 September 1949
American Notebook . : :
the operating cost in the transonic and supersonic range
is so high as to preclude the economic feasibility of such a
transport, it is believed that a...
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 ...made considerable progress; you can test this by looking back
five years. It also depends a great deal on the aerodynamic
configuration selected for argument. On the results already
achieved with the Northrop YB-49 Jet-Wing bomber, a trans-
oceanic range of 4,500-5,000 miles carrying 80-100 passengers
(Here is that hoary chestnut again—when is a subsidy not appears perfectly feasible today—which m...
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 ...MARCH 2OTH, 1947
itures of the Northrop B-35
irbettes : Crew of
irtmei
The Jet-Powered
The navigator, in
the foreground of
the view below,
demonstrates the
use of the astro-
dome. Joint
occupation of ...
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