Two-Motored "Flying Wing" Has No Fuselage
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Consisting of a thick triangular wing, with no tail and no fuselage, a revolutionary airplane has been completed and test-flown in secrecy by Northrop Aircraft, Inc., under the watchful eyes of the United States Army Air Forces. Lack of maneuverability, the bugbear of previous “flying wings,” is overcome with a sharp downward tilt of the wing tips that apparently include rudders and ailerons. What seem to be elevators nestle in the trailing edge of the massive wing. It also encloses two flat liquid-cooled engines, each driving a four-bladed pusher-type propeller. The cockpit is located on top near the foremost point. For war purposes guns will probably point from blisterlike turrets on the wing's upper surface. Because of the increased “lift” gained by using nearly every square inch of its surface, and the virtual elimination of drag, the plane is expected to fly faster than many pursuit ships.
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- Two-Motored "Flying Wing" Has No Fuselage
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- Two-Motored "Flying Wing" Has No Fuselage
- Lingua
- eng
- Copertura temporale
- World War II
- Data di rilascio
- 1942-01
- pagine
- 25
- Diritti
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Sorgente
- Google books
- Archived by
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
