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A big problem that was found the YB-49 is that when stalled it would tumble end over end and the way that was discovered to get out of this was to cut the engines on one side to induce a flat spin and they get into normal flight from there. This happened once and after that "plane is never to be stalled under any circumstances" was added to the manual. Purportedly this issue was solved in the B2 by having the fly by wire computer not allow the pilot to stall the plane.
TH-cam at 5 in the morning: *What Happened to the Flying Wing?* Me at 5 in the moring: *Yeah, What Happened to the Flying Wing?* Hello insomnia my old friend...
I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains
TV shows tend to be big disappointments compared to the top youtube channels like this. They're almost always unnecessarily dramatised, the flow of the story cut into pieces, it's awful to watch. TH-cam may have a lot of dumb stuff, but the good stuff is *really* good.
You left out that they brought Jack Northrop in before he died and showed him the B2. At least that's what I remember from a documentary I saw long ago. What an emotional and human act for the massive military complex. It enriches us all.
Yep. He was paralyzed and couldn't walk or speak. Legend is that they showed him a scale model of B-2 before full production started and after seeing it he wrote to a piece of paper "God let me live for 25 more years so I could see this moment" or something like that. It's hard to not feel sorry for the man. Such a visionary he was. They better had showed him at least that.
@@TheKurtkapan34, he was shown the first flying example, before it was fully completed, about 8 months before first flight. He was shown the various models of it, but they wanted him to see that it was not merely a model, but an actual aircraft.
@@dankinusmc1 ooh, didn't know he also saw the first flying model. Must have felt great for him. I just get bananas when wehraboo kids claim that Northrop copied Horten's design for b-2 when the guy himself is one of the pioneers of flying wings.
mrnoobster The pitch is full of misleading or outright false claims as well...a VPN has zero effect on the probability that your passwords are going to be stolen. Unless you’re using an insecure site AND there’s an attacker that specifically wants *your* password, not just anybody’s password, AND that person has special access to your internet connection. But of course, it’s using the unsecured site that puts you at greatest risk, and the VPN is just the weakest “security by obscurity“ in comparison, and may expose you to more man-in-the-middle attacks, because of the diverse exit points it uses on different days to route your traffic.
Howdy I work in the cyber security field. Specifically doing bug bounties. Vpns are useful in 3 situations. 1. If you are in a coffee shop or on public wifi. Ssl stripping is possible and there is an entire toolkit dedicated to doing mitms. 2. If you run a very secure network and want the only way to connect to that network is via a VPN that gets you onto the internal network or at least a login on the internal. Although it would have be setup using something other than nordvpn it would need to be something like ovpn on a vps on the server. 3. Hiding internet traffic from your isp so you can torrent without getting fines as well as bypass region locks.
you also could use the the Tor browser with a bridge for certain cases. Also one can be quite certain that NordVPN and other providers sell your data like your internet provider does.
@@n111254789 How effective are VPN's at hiding your traffic from your own ISP? Surely any ISP worth their salt can check your network regardless of a VPN?
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You missed the best part... when Northrop found out that they were going to build the top-secret B-2 bomber, they acquired permission to let a very old Jack Northrop know that the flying wing was going to become a true reality, of course, he was very pleased, and I believe he died not long after that.
As a little kid living on an Army base in California's Central Valley I remember looking up at one of these flying wings (propeller driven) and couldn't believe my eyes. This was back in the 1950's. My how far we have come.
I lived near Long Beach, CA, in the 50s and got to see several experimental aircraft flying overhead including the wing and even a flying saucer type aircraft as I recall.
@a My dad was a Sergeant in the Andersen air force base military police force at the time and our family was just coming back from the beach after we went past the front gate where they check your military IDs. What kind of a sad person are you? I come in here and share a one in a million experience I had and you just come here and doubt it for no reason.
@@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 Idiots like that will always doubt other people's stories. They haven't made it further than their mother's basement so they don't understand that other people have this amazing experience called 'Life' I honestly feel sorry for them as they're just middle aged virgins with no friends.
You miss the part where they showed Jack Northrop the final model of B2 and he was like tear up saying this probably the reason God still let him live. I think he died a few months later.
I was just thinking the same thing then I saw your comment. Maybe I saw it out of the corner of my eye or something. But yeah, that was an important part of the story.
Shortly before his death he was shown the plans and the model of the B-2 and how much the design of the B-2 mirrored his. He wrote down on a piece of paper, (at the time he was unable to speak or walk , "Now I know why God has kept me alive for 25 years".
@@hannesgroesslinger BULLSHIT !!!!!! The Nazis never had a full size flying model and the V2 model crashed on its second flight and killed the pilot !!!! Jack Northrop was years ahead of the nazis !!!
You didn't mention the current work on the Northrop B-21 flying wing bomber, which is expected to enter service in 2025 according to Wikipedia. Also, there is footage of Jack Northrop in a wheelchair being brought into a secure office and handed a model of the B-1 by the Northrop managers, a very moving scene. Jack was a great aviation pioneer and a patriot and it was only right for them to give him a clearance and let him know his life's work was finally paying off, and that his brainchild was about to enter service in the USAF.
Jack Northrop was one of the only civilians to see the first B-2 prototype. It’s ironic but also fitting in that his baby (and his math, including the same exact wingspan of his YB-35/49) was the same exact day confirmed to be nearly perfect, and used in the B-2. I really wish I could have been there when they wheeled him into that hangar and they saw his life’s ambitions become a reality. Apparently those close to him said that after that moment, he was at peace with his life and traveled to the other side with no regrets.
When I started at Boeing Military Aircraft in 1988, we were making a lot of parts for the B2. We joked about the plane being made entirely of brackets, because that''s what all the parts were called. Another task I had back then was making the panels for the bombardier's station on the B-1. We had one fly over the shop and land at Boeing Field in Seattle. We were invited to tour it during work hours if we could cover it with vacation time. I was a new-hire then, so I couldn't go.
The B-2 first flew in 1989, and to the best of my knowledge they did not make any flyable prototypes of the design first, so it could not have been related to that. Definitely a UFO in the sense that it remains an unidentified flying object. :-) But not of alien origin.
When I was in high school I was a volunteer at the Plane's of Fame air museum. They had an original N9MB flying wing and was the last of the original flying wings from the 40s still flying. I was honored to have the chance to help work on it. It crashed earlier this year killing the pilot David Vopat. Very sad to see a piece of aviation history be destroyed and a good pilot die. RIP David.
I was fortunate to see the restored 1942 Northrop N9M flying wing in action at an air show a few years ago. It saddened me to hear that it was lost in a crash earlier this year along with the pilot.
I loved seeing the B-2 at air shows when I was a young man back in the late 90's - what an impressive sight to see... a jaw dropping display of technology, power, and force projection! These birds can stay in the air indefinitely, so long as the crew can rotate in enough sleep and there's a toilet on board!
Great video but I would reconsider renewing your sponsorship with Nord VPN after they were less than upfront regarding a recent major security breach. It doesn't reflect well on your tech and engineering channel.
Also, don't forget, another nail in the coffin of the YB-49 was the fact that when it began as the XB-35 it was supposed to be a heavy, long range bomber in direct competition with Convair's B-36. When the contra-rotating propellers worked it had adequate power and showed to have excellent range. The switch to single props reduced power so that it couldn't really compete on any level so they went to jets. With jets it had adequate power but the early turbojets were so thirsty that the range was reduced considerably. This put it square into the medium bomber class, which let it compete with the B-47, which it couldn't do. The '47 was a medium from the word go, the Wing was a heavy that was knocked down to a medium, and it just didn't work.
I'm a bit sad the B-35 program didn't see production. I would think a large, long-range flying wing would have made an excellent photo-reconnaissance/maritime patrol bomber. The large propellers would also alleviate a good deal of instability (if I remember correctly).
My dad was a test pilot on Northrop's wings 1947-1948. I have a letter to my dad from Jack Northrop dated 1948 welcoming him to the Flying Wing Club... open only to those who flew the Wing. The stability problems with the YB-49 were being solved when it was cancelled for political reasons. The aircraft they got was the B-36. The USAF ORDERED all the YB-49 airframes destroyed! The YB-49 and the B-2 share exactly the same wing span.
Ultimately, the B-36 was probably the best choice. It had greater range and payload capacity than the YB-49. And the instability problem that flying wings had was not completely resolved until fly-by-wire controls were developed.
@@58jharris The vast majority of aviation analyst have concluded that the B-36 was obsolete before it even started production. The size was needed do to the size of the weapons of the era. The enormous radar signature and slow speed would have been a defender's dream target. Thank God for the B-47, B-58, and later the XB-70. Both caused the Soviets to sink enormous amounts of resources into the Mig 25 Foxbat... designed for high altitude & high speed intercept. Then we decided to go low level. TFR in the B-58 and refined later in the FB-111 and B-1 made the Foxbat a non-item. The instability problems you addressed were near complete resolution. Fly-by-wire was and is a staple for unstable military aircraft, ie current day fighters. Inherently unstable aircraft are desirable for this type. Not so for bombers. In the late 1940s, the only way to test a theory or "fix" was to build it and fly it. That was one of the reasons for the N9Ms (I know three were built, but I've read there were four). These were used to "tweak" fixes for the XB-35 and the YB-49 along with wind tunnel testing. The original design data (with the modifications) was submitted to NASA by Jack Northrop in 1968. NASA completely vindicated the design. One of the original test pilots was on hand for the first flight of the B-2. The test pilot for the B-2 casually asked for advise. The old salt's response was: "Don't stall it!" That's what killed Glenn Edwards... he had received the same warning. If the Wing had not been cancelled, there is no telling what direction heavy lift aircraft would have taken... Another "what if" for history.
I lived in Pasadena, CA, in the 90s. I had a condo, just a block off the Rose Parade route. One New Years, a B2 preceded the parade, at low altitude. That was a eerie sight !
This is fascinating, and Curious Droid consistently has that effect on topics I had no interest or particular knowledge of. It also inspired me to read a bit about Jack Northrup, who I had no idea was such an intriguing inventor/innovator/entrepreneur, and how striking was his personal torment from the rejection by the corrupt or inept or what-have-you bureaucrats in the military and federal government. I wonder if they could make a movie, "Northrup".
One of my favorite air show memories is watching the small yellow flying wing in the skies around Chino, CA. It's a shame that the planes and its pilot were lost in a crash.
If I may: The Horten 229 was not for the 1000x1000x1000 requirement, I think that was the Horten XVIII project, which was a massively upscaled version. The 229 was initially a study to test the viability of the 18 if I remember correctly, but it was so good it was ordered into production as a fighter
From what I've always understood , that design is very difficult to control for whatever reason. And modern avionics making adjustments by the microsecond is the reason they were able to overcome that design issue.
Little correction: The N1M was a single engine model to prove that the tailless wing concept would work. The twin engine single pilot plane is the N9M. It was built during the development of the YB-35 to test engine out characteristics. The locations of the two engines on the N9M were such that with one out of the N9M, it would act like a YB-35 with two engines out on one wing. A single N9M is all that survives from the YB-35/49 project. There were a few other concepts for a flying wing fighter with a prone flying position and a chin rest for the pilot during high G maneuvers. It was later adapted to have jet engines, and test pilots were able to pull 12G maneuvers in them without blacking out. Those projects were also canceled when Northrop refused to merge with Convair, although they were not without their crashes. Of note, Jack Northrop designed the wing of the DC-2, the precursor to the most successful airplane ever built. The sturdy structure of the DC-3's wing is thanks to Jack Northrop, and his ideas he had in the early 30s designing his first flying wing.
Everyone is aware of the use of the flying wing for Hang Gliders. And I'm sure any aero-designer would be aware of the basic stability and drag of their designs. Well, I started working on understanding how it worked when I first began flying them in 1975. And after years of building thousands of models and several prototype hang gliders I figured out the bell shaped lift distribution. Then a friend showed me a book about the Horten wings with an explanation of the very thing I had just found. Using models I set out looking for a perfect balance of sweep, twist and cylindricalization to optimize the span efficiency. At the time huge amount of twist were used on most flex wings, reducing efficiency and performance. In 1983 I came up with a idea to use a radial conical form with an apex 3/4 span forward of CG as the optimal shape, compensating to best glide the incidence to span wise air flow. Of course that would be dependent on speed and loading to be truly optimized. I then built a 38' span sweep wing hang glider utilizing pre-stressed spars and mechanical wing warping. The concept came out of discussions about "How would you improve the design of the rigid Fledgling glider." Aspect ratio was 7.3, static balance was right on your shoulders, with a weight of 82 lbs. The Cross Spar was 92% of span with a collapsing compression strut that automatically engaged as the wings were spread out. I used 3 sets of flying wires to create the conical shaping. That provided me triangulated support and the ability to fully control conicalization and twist. The battens were supported by the leading edge and cross spar making incidence along the span absolute. The tips were floating, and controlled by a lockout batten with similar support points, about 3' inboard. I called it a semi-rigid wing. The mechanical wing warping was accomplished with 3/32' 7 by 19 flying wires around pulleys on the control frame and moved by a rotating drum on the keel at CG. The cables changed the relationship of leading edge to cross spar and the drum rotated by weight shift. Initially giving wash out on the inboard wing and wash in on the outboard. I later found that the wash in was not necessary. While flying the craft I could initiate turns with a simple pull on the leading edge cable that caused the lockout tube to rotate, producing beautifully coordinated turns. First test fights were simple weighted free fights. Then swallow hill fights. The wing flew from the first day. I made an 800' cliff launch within days after demonstrating controlled turns and stable hands off straight flight. Then 1300', then 1500'. At Henson Gap Tn (altitude above ground 1500') I calculated turn points of 10:1, 12:1 and 14:1 and flew test flights in morning smooth air. Straight out at trim speeds, and best guess at turn points. The 10:1 turn point I could make easily in my UP Comet 185, the 12:1 turn point was iffy with any room for a proper approach. The Warper could make the 12:1 turn point every time with 400'+ to spare. And the 14:1 with plenty of room for a set up and 2 leg approach. I fully believe it achieved glides of 16:1 and better with a fully exposed pilot in a spaghetti harness and 3 sets of top and bottom flying wires when fully tightened. The wing was destroyed by a sudden squall line that blew it into a power line pole while it was set up in my back yard.
I love your channel, your content is always very interesting, well researched, and put together nicely. Additionally whenever I can't fall asleep, I put on a couple hr playlist of Curious Droid's content... His soothing voice and relaxing background music always puts me right to sleep when I'm tired but can't seem to fall asleep... Do not take that as me implying that you are boring, as when I'm up and going during the day I can watch your videos for hrs... Keep up the great work..
Seems pretty obvious how birds can have stable flight with a vertical stabilizer. They're not fixed wing aircraft. Hell, they're not even fixed fuselage aircraft. A bird can just tilt it's head to change its aerodynamics.
The flying wing was definitely "stealthy" for the era. My father was a radar operator on a B-50 training in Tuscon around '48-'49 and said he tracked a plane on their radar, but it was too small to be the tanker they were supposed to find. After some radio calls to avoid the planes colliding, the other plane turned and dad's radar screen lit up with a bigger signature. He looked out the observation blister and could see the Flying Wing turning away. Once it went wings-level, it was like trying to see a pencil line in the sky. Re: The proposed Convair-Northrop "merger"... Dad was in aerospace after his service (he worked at Convair then moved to Lockheed) and worked with some ex-Northrop guys from that time. They said Northrop was given more or less and ultimatum not only by Symington and Convair's President, but also a certain Texas Senator who they said tried to squeeze Northrop by his gonads. He told Northrop he'd never get another military contract unless he caved in. That Texas Senator was Lyndon Johnson -- and Convair was based in Ft. Worth at the time. So we've always had the best congressmen that money can buy!
I once saw a fictional giant flying wing airliner cutaway in Popular Science (or similar) magazine of the 1950s or 60s. It had galleries, restaurants, a hotel and movie theater. It was nuclear powered and was always in flight. Shuttle jets would bring people to and from it when it was near to cities. That image stuck with me, as the nicest way to get around the world.
General "I want the Guam pilots salaries garnished for the B2 crash!" Advisor "their military salaries will never cover it" General "then give them a 550m dollar Yr raise and garnish that!"
I remember when I was about 8 or 9 years old I was standing between our house and the neighbor's house in Western PA when I looked up and saw the Flying Wing going over. It was on it's approach to land at the Air Force Base in Pittsburgh. It was BIG!
Years ago I had a book of paper (thin card) aeroplanes to cut out and make. It included a flying wing glider which flew very well. The wing tips were bent up vertically, does that disqualify it? Maybe you could tell me: when he refers to vertical stabilisation is that provided by the horizontal surface or the vertical one in a conventional plane? I'm wondering about winglets, you see. Aeromodelers are often near the cutting edge! I recommend a TH-cam search for "18 wing ornithopter". The most astonishing flying thing I've seen!
@@raykent3211 my RC wing the E-flite opterra 2 meter wing sounds much like what you describing Have some videos on my channel It have the tips bend up to and two small vertical tips at the fuselage One of my best flying and gliding RC planes About disqualified as an wing because of the vertical tips 🤔 Actually a good question my friend
This aircraft was a useful prop for 1960's sci-fi movies. I recall seeing on TV old movies where the threat of giant insects, toads or whatnot (as well as some hapless space aliens) was countered--after all the usual armaments failed--with the command "Send in the Flying Wing". Stock footage would show the futuristic and presumably super-powerful machine on its way to save the day. I wish I could remember the titles of those movies.
I love your videos. The topics of your content are fabulous and the first thing I do when I open TH-cam is checking your channel for new videos. There’s no better way of falling asleep listening to your calm voice talking about interesting stuff. I’m looking forward to more aviation related videos.
Remember that , its scene like indi at Egypt and shot his enemy with the tail machine. Gun th-cam.com/video/X-WgGjJ_On8/w-d-xo.html here American vs banzai charge at ww2
Another name for the flying wing is "Span Loader" (indeed, the term "tailless span loader" can be seen in the text of the letter from NASA at 10:13 in the video) and that brings up another important point in the concept. Since the entire body of the aircraft provides lift, there is no need for a "wing box", a structure that must carry the entire weight of the fuselage, empennage, and cargo. Since a flying wing carries the load across the lifting area, the extra weight of such a structure is unnecessary. I have heard that the XB-35 and YB-49 suffered from a "pitch instability" problem in hard turns that caused the plane to flip over forward (or backwards) like a falling leaf- totally unrecoverable. Despite claims that the Horton-229 was phenomenally maneuverable, I have also heard that the Horton Brothers never actually solved that problem.
I'm very curious about northrops upcoming bomber, the b21 raider. Said to be a smaller and far cheaper version of the b2. It's beyond top secret though lol
Not Secret anymore. I worked on the B-2 Program at Palmdale when that was Secret. The B-21 isn't smaller but has a much smaller radar image, Cheaper? Nah.
@@suzyqualcast6269: Nobody laughs at the B2 bomber. It looks too cool. Even people a million years more technologically advanced would admire the B2 the way we admire well-made flint arrowheads. Same with the SR-71.
Thank you so much for another fantastic educational video! Love the shirts and was surprised this time you didn’t mention where it was from! Happy Thanksgiving if you live in US from another Brit!
@@puirYorick You're talking to the world, here. Spain in particular. Couldn't give a damn so long as he does his job keeping the US from going to shit. And shit is always one step away with that Ponzi scheme that ALL of us are in. No time for dallying with politics, this.
@@armr6937 Yea, I love how everyone blames (any current president) for the conditions of the country (good or bad) now, when the problems, politics, profit and potential of the country goes back well over 150 years.
@@armr6937 I appear to have found myself communicating with an alternate reality. You think he's doing his job so we clearly don't exist in the same cosmos. 👽👽👽
The big problem that aircraft have with flying wing designs as opposed to birds, especially going back to earlier days before fly-by-wire, was that while an aircraft's wing is mostly solid, with a limited range of motions and variability, a bird's wing and tail feathers are in contrast extremely dexterous, kind of like how a spider can easily run short distances with it's eight tiny legs. The fact that computerisation has come a long way does make a huge difference, but the other half of the problem remains. It would be interesting to see an aircraft design that used something like the many individual feathers of a bird to produce many highly variable control surfaces.
I hope NordVPN paid you a lot for this.... and I also hope that if you actually take online security seriously.... that you do not use them. Other than that, great video, as always!
@@dakotadirig7562 they completely overlooked an active and in use hole in one of their servers...for about 6 months and handled it badly when they were found out. so yes, we can assume that hackers have full access to the NordVPN servers
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Saw the film when I was a kid and ended up writing paper in the 6th or 7th grade about the B2 titled "A Next Generation Aircraft." Sadly, the flying wing was nothing compared to... um.... Was it the common cold that the aliens died from in original flick?
@@otm646 I use a VPN in order to hide from the French government (for torrents) and to access Amazon prime USA from France. In both cases it works very well. That's it.
it wasn't a hack.. it's was a compromised sever via a third party setup and it was 1 server out of 50+ in reality it can (and has happened) to any vpn out there. if anything they are probably the safest they have ever been as they did a audit of their systems to gain customer confidence back.
There is a big issue about tacking on the R&D costs to production costs. This gives you a highly inflated and unrealistic idea of how much each new aircraft costs. And it creates unrealistic expectations as to how much money will be saved by cancelling the program. R&D should be considered to be expenses that are completely separate from the procurement costs. At the time they were being made the price of an additional B-2 would have been ~$250 million. So when the B-2 crashed in Guam we lost an airplane worth $250 million (less depreciation). And since the B2's are at about half of their planned service life - their value is only about $125 million.
As a side note. When I was in school/university (1970's), I had an instructor, who was on the flight test team for the original flying wings (1940's-1950's). He stated that they had a flight from, roughly LA, Calif. to San Francisco, Calif. During this test they were unable to track the flying wing on "Radar." So, maybe, time was waiting for computer controlled flight? Thanks
Not sure if you're being snarky or if you're one of the people who hasn't gotten the concept that you can pre-release videos privately. It only shows the public posting date.
Some trivia: Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a Late Cretaceous pterosaur the height of a giraffe, and with a wingspan the size of a Cessna 172, was named after Jack Northrop.
In the early 1980s, a group of Northrop engineers visited for several weeks to Dr. Reimar Horten, in his house in Córdoba (Argentina). They consulted Horten on aerodynamics and stability of flying wings.
I think it should be pointed out that most stealth technology does not arise from paint, or cross section, but does from electronics and wire meshes built into the wing.
G'day, Not a bad video, but you glossed over the reason why the YB-49 crashed, twice. Because there were no Baffles inside their Fool-Tanks, all Throttle-movements had to be made VERY Gently & Gradually, particularly if less than 3/4 Full. Sudden acceleration, or sustained steep Climbs, put all the Fuel at the back of the Tanks, moving the Centre of Gravity well beyond the controllable & flyable limits, inducing an irrecoverable Stall/Spin... Whereas suddenly retarding the Throttes put all the Motion-Lotion onto the front of the Tanks, & the resulting Nose-Down moment caused the YB-49 to pitch-down & tumble, rotating end-over-end all the way down. As I recall it, the two which they crunched bracketed both of the possible options ; and after the first Desert-Floor Fireball the Fleet were being retrofitted with Anti-Surge Fueltank-Baffles, when Glen Edwards (after whom Murroc Dry Lake AFB was renamed...) died in the second YB-49 Fireball - that cancelled the whole Program. Such is Life, Have a good one. ;-p Ciao !
those other guys making flying wings before them pfft, amateurs......even though they were making breakthroughs years before the hortons....thats just stupid logic talking
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With all due respect, have you been living under a rock for the past two months?
Nord is an unreliable and unsafe VPN provider.
You do know they got hacked, right?
@@Y.M... Seems you are the one under a rock: you haven't watched one of the previous videos where CD explains NordVPN's issues...
How well can these flying wing aircraft perform at mach flight?
@@sirrianusdagovax hiding the fact that they've been compromised until a white hat hacker group exposes them doesn't need to be explained to me. It's plain for everyone to see. We have been informed of their issues by third parties, they are not transparent with their customers. You cannot excuse their cover up.
The flying wing is alive and well in the R/C community. They are cheap, easy to setup and can do almost anything!
Yeah :) I started out with a quadcopter but now I mainly fly wing. It just feels the best to fly. I really don't know about sitting in one tho :)
I've seen Horizon I think with a flying wing with a FPV built in. Not the racer type but more of a generic and I want it so bad
Not a pointless design after all, seems to one way or another made a lot of ppl happy
If its shaped like a boomerang, loses control and goes into a spin, at least the aircraft should return back home again.
Somebody better catch it
Lol, don't be silly lad.😁
Brilliant observation lol
Nice one
A big problem that was found the YB-49 is that when stalled it would tumble end over end and the way that was discovered to get out of this was to cut the engines on one side to induce a flat spin and they get into normal flight from there. This happened once and after that "plane is never to be stalled under any circumstances" was added to the manual. Purportedly this issue was solved in the B2 by having the fly by wire computer not allow the pilot to stall the plane.
TH-cam at 5 in the morning: *What Happened to the Flying Wing?*
Me at 5 in the moring: *Yeah, What Happened to the Flying Wing?*
Hello insomnia my old friend...
Insomnia and coffee are the best of friends.
@@nill5217 insomnia, like they said.
You have much healthier late night yt habits than me.
When I woke up this morning I thought I was a flying wing. But reality struck pretty hard when I saw myself in the mirror.
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Back in about 1948, when I was a kid. I saw the Flying Wing fly over my Great Grand Mother's house in Texas!!! What a sight!!!
Wow!
You see projectiles coming at you
Curious droid is the most underrated channel! This man deserves his own tv show!
TV shows tend to be big disappointments compared to the top youtube channels like this. They're almost always unnecessarily dramatised, the flow of the story cut into pieces, it's awful to watch. TH-cam may have a lot of dumb stuff, but the good stuff is *really* good.
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Yes, being on TV would not be an improvement.
TV is dead
He has something better... This man has own TV *channel* . An entire channel dedicated to his work.
I agree with you all, I don’t watch tv. What I meant was he deserves the cultural ubiquity and big, fat paycheck that comes with a high budget show.
You left out that they brought Jack Northrop in before he died and showed him the B2. At least that's what I remember from a documentary I saw long ago. What an emotional and human act for the massive military complex. It enriches us all.
I also remember that.
Yep. He was paralyzed and couldn't walk or speak. Legend is that they showed him a scale model of B-2 before full production started and after seeing it he wrote to a piece of paper "God let me live for 25 more years so I could see this moment" or something like that.
It's hard to not feel sorry for the man. Such a visionary he was. They better had showed him at least that.
@@TheKurtkapan34, he was shown the first flying example, before it was fully completed, about 8 months before first flight. He was shown the various models of it, but they wanted him to see that it was not merely a model, but an actual aircraft.
@@dankinusmc1 ooh, didn't know he also saw the first flying model. Must have felt great for him. I just get bananas when wehraboo kids claim that Northrop copied Horten's design for b-2 when the guy himself is one of the pioneers of flying wings.
@@dankinusmc1 Jack Northrop died 8 years before the first flight of a B-2. He only ever saw a model of the aircraft.
Was shot down near Stonehenge by an Osean Air Defense Force ace.
Well, they WOULD fly them out of Boscombe Down, wouldn't they....
You mean, an air(bird) strike?
And the last one being shot down by a Coalition Force in the middle of the area where the Space Elevator was placed
ARSENAL BIRDDDDD
@@mikewizz1895 ironically its energy shield stops all attacks but apparently wasn't enough stop Superweapon graded Railgun like Stonehenge.
ConVair: “Merge with us or die.”
Northrop: *picks up phone* “Hello, Grumman?”
Northrop merged with Grumman 13 years after Jack Northrop died and Convair ceased as an independent company decades before that...
Convair: Don't they make hair dryers?
@@MrNeptunebob 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌🏻👍🏻 Nah, that's CONAIR.
JIGA BACHI Nah, That’s a Nicolas Cage movie.
@@sivalon1 that it was too.👍
TBH....45% of the time im only clicking to see the shirt!!....This one didnt disappoint!
I know, right? Guitar picks.
You're not alone.. LOL
HaHaHa! Thankyou, I hadn't thought of that.
I dropped Nord VPN when they literally tried to hide the fact they had their servers compromised. Good video. Bad VPN advertising.
mrnoobster The pitch is full of misleading or outright false claims as well...a VPN has zero effect on the probability that your passwords are going to be stolen. Unless you’re using an insecure site AND there’s an attacker that specifically wants *your* password, not just anybody’s password, AND that person has special access to your internet connection. But of course, it’s using the unsecured site that puts you at greatest risk, and the VPN is just the weakest “security by obscurity“ in comparison, and may expose you to more man-in-the-middle attacks, because of the diverse exit points it uses on different days to route your traffic.
Howdy I work in the cyber security field. Specifically doing bug bounties. Vpns are useful in 3 situations.
1. If you are in a coffee shop or on public wifi. Ssl stripping is possible and there is an entire toolkit dedicated to doing mitms.
2. If you run a very secure network and want the only way to connect to that network is via a VPN that gets you onto the internal network or at least a login on the internal. Although it would have be setup using something other than nordvpn it would need to be something like ovpn on a vps on the server.
3. Hiding internet traffic from your isp so you can torrent without getting fines as well as bypass region locks.
you also could use the the Tor browser with a bridge for certain cases. Also one can be quite certain that NordVPN and other providers sell your data like your internet provider does.
@@n111254789 How effective are VPN's at hiding your traffic from your own ISP? Surely any ISP worth their salt can check your network regardless of a VPN?
@@manstonhisk667 They cannot. They see a request go from you to your VPN and it is encrypted then you get a page returned but it appears to come from your VPN. There is nothing they can do about it.
If they suspect something they have to contact law enforcement get a subpoena issue (if there is good cause) the government will subpoena your VPN provider and they will have logs of what you did. Regardless if they say they keep logs or not they will have logs of what you did unless they are from a non five eyes country.
Hiding from your isp they work though. It's why people in China setup their own on a vps using openvpn and then can access other stuff. Same with torrenting and getting country specfic content here in the USA.
It went to the Ace Combat universe
Yup, Arsenal Bird.
Damn Belkans!
Its purpose is strictly for defence
You missed the best part... when Northrop found out that they were going to build the top-secret B-2 bomber, they acquired permission to let a very old Jack Northrop know that the flying wing was going to become a true reality, of course, he was very pleased, and I believe he died not long after that.
Scott : Shock at being totally ripped ¿?
Northrop: "this is nice"
Northrop: **dies**
His life was complete at that point.
As a little kid living on an Army base in California's Central Valley I remember looking up at one of these flying wings (propeller driven) and couldn't believe my eyes. This was back in the 1950's. My how far we have come.
I lived near Long Beach, CA, in the 50s and got to see several experimental aircraft flying overhead including the wing and even a flying saucer type aircraft as I recall.
I miss when Paul would announce the kind of shirt he was wearing.
I love this channel. Keep up the good work, Paul!
You and me both.
I think you're just being picky there!
@@MrWombatty I see what you did there. 🎸
definetly that shirt was the right pick.
I was living on Guam when the B2 crashed. I didn’t know what caused it at the time but that thing really shook the ground like an earthquake.
Some condensation in vital electronics was the cause of the b2 crash.
bs
+a
No, B-2.
@a My dad was a Sergeant in the Andersen air force base military police force at the time and our family was just coming back from the beach after we went past the front gate where they check your military IDs. What kind of a sad person are you? I come in here and share a one in a million experience I had and you just come here and doubt it for no reason.
@@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 Idiots like that will always doubt other people's stories. They haven't made it further than their mother's basement so they don't understand that other people have this amazing experience called 'Life'
I honestly feel sorry for them as they're just middle aged virgins with no friends.
You miss the part where they showed Jack Northrop the final model of B2 and he was like tear up saying this probably the reason God still let him live. I think he died a few months later.
I was just thinking the same thing then I saw your comment. Maybe I saw it out of the corner of my eye or something.
But yeah, that was an important part of the story.
honeysucklecat absolutely
He teared up and said "now I know why God has kept me alive for so long.."
Shortly before his death he was shown the plans and the model of the B-2 and how much the design of the B-2 mirrored his. He wrote down on a piece of paper, (at the time he was unable to speak or walk ,
"Now I know why God has kept me alive for 25 years".
Both comments neglected to mention who "He" is
Astrocat2374 jack Northrop
@@Astrocat-od5cy - when discussing Flying Wings, the only "he" that counts is Jack Northrop.
@@tommissouri4871 I apologize for being so stupid to have asked for specification
Undoubtedly God was like "Holy balls the B2 is COMPLETELY RAD"
When Jack Northrop saw the B-2 model in his last days, it was the most emotional day for all aviation enthusiasts. He knew... long live Jack.
It’s amazing how far ahead of his time Jack Northrop was!!!
Indeed. After all, he was only about 10 years behind the Horten brothers!
@@hannesgroesslinger ^^
Pfft! Ancient Greeks conceived the atom.
@@hannesgroesslinger BULLSHIT !!!!!! The Nazis never had a full size flying model and the V2 model crashed on its second flight and killed the pilot !!!! Jack Northrop was years ahead of the nazis !!!
@@hannesgroesslinger Yeah, except for the little insignificant fact that his model actually worked and was much better.
You didn't mention the current work on the Northrop B-21 flying wing bomber, which is expected to enter service in 2025 according to Wikipedia. Also, there is footage of Jack Northrop in a wheelchair being brought into a secure office and handed a model of the B-1 by the Northrop managers, a very moving scene. Jack was a great aviation pioneer and a patriot and it was only right for them to give him a clearance and let him know his life's work was finally paying off, and that his brainchild was about to enter service in the USAF.
All craft in the AO, Arsenal Bird confirmed
found the comment i was looking for
@@MaximusGreff same
Jack Northrop was one of the only civilians to see the first B-2 prototype. It’s ironic but also fitting in that his baby (and his math, including the same exact wingspan of his YB-35/49) was the same exact day confirmed to be nearly perfect, and used in the B-2.
I really wish I could have been there when they wheeled him into that hangar and they saw his life’s ambitions become a reality. Apparently those close to him said that after that moment, he was at peace with his life and traveled to the other side with no regrets.
When I started at Boeing Military Aircraft in 1988, we were making a lot of parts for the B2. We joked about the plane being made entirely of brackets, because that''s what all the parts were called. Another task I had back then was making the panels for the bombardier's station on the B-1. We had one fly over the shop and land at Boeing Field in Seattle. We were invited to tour it during work hours if we could cover it with vacation time. I was a new-hire then, so I couldn't go.
The B-2 first flew in 1989, and to the best of my knowledge they did not make any flyable prototypes of the design first, so it could not have been related to that. Definitely a UFO in the sense that it remains an unidentified flying object. :-) But not of alien origin.
@@bennylofgren3208 Thanks for making the distinction between UFOs and "DEM ALIENS!!".
When I was in high school I was a volunteer at the Plane's of Fame air museum. They had an original N9MB flying wing and was the last of the original flying wings from the 40s still flying. I was honored to have the chance to help work on it. It crashed earlier this year killing the pilot David Vopat. Very sad to see a piece of aviation history be destroyed and a good pilot die. RIP David.
I was fortunate to see the restored 1942 Northrop N9M flying wing in action at an air show a few years ago. It saddened me to hear that it was lost in a crash earlier this year along with the pilot.
4:16 Only fools and horses reference 😂
DarkTherapy Hello Unc' Albert my old friend..
Uncle Albert was aboard the Ho228 that was stolen by SOE....it crashed into the sea and sank.
I loved seeing the B-2 at air shows when I was a young man back in the late 90's - what an impressive sight to see... a jaw dropping display of technology, power, and force projection! These birds can stay in the air indefinitely, so long as the crew can rotate in enough sleep and there's a toilet on board!
A toilet, on a bomber? Why can't they take a dump in a special glass flask and blast it out over enemy territory? How amusing.
Biological warfare is regarded as a weapon of mass destruction. Your shit bomb may trigger a nuclear retaliation. :-)
Same! I couldnt believe when they let us into the cockpit
Great video but I would reconsider renewing your sponsorship with Nord VPN after they were less than upfront regarding a recent major security breach. It doesn't reflect well on your tech and engineering channel.
Also, don't forget, another nail in the coffin of the YB-49 was the fact that when it began as the XB-35 it was supposed to be a heavy, long range bomber in direct competition with Convair's B-36. When the contra-rotating propellers worked it had adequate power and showed to have excellent range. The switch to single props reduced power so that it couldn't really compete on any level so they went to jets. With jets it had adequate power but the early turbojets were so thirsty that the range was reduced considerably. This put it square into the medium bomber class, which let it compete with the B-47, which it couldn't do. The '47 was a medium from the word go, the Wing was a heavy that was knocked down to a medium, and it just didn't work.
the good old arsenal bird
I'm a bit sad the B-35 program didn't see production. I would think a large, long-range flying wing would have made an excellent photo-reconnaissance/maritime patrol bomber. The large propellers would also alleviate a good deal of instability (if I remember correctly).
My dad was a test pilot on Northrop's wings 1947-1948. I have a letter to my dad from Jack Northrop dated 1948 welcoming him to the Flying Wing Club... open only to those who flew the Wing.
The stability problems with the YB-49 were being solved when it was cancelled for political reasons. The aircraft they got was the B-36. The USAF ORDERED all the YB-49 airframes destroyed!
The YB-49 and the B-2 share exactly the same wing span.
@@soulsphere9242 You're right! I stand corrected!
That is a very valuable letter store it safely
@@andrewc1036 It's been framed by a curator and is hung in a low to zero light area. Thanks!
Ultimately, the B-36 was probably the best choice. It had greater range and payload capacity than the YB-49. And the instability problem that flying wings had was not completely resolved until fly-by-wire controls were developed.
@@58jharris The vast majority of aviation analyst have concluded that the B-36 was obsolete before it even started production. The size was needed do to the size of the weapons of the era. The enormous radar signature and slow speed would have been a defender's dream target. Thank God for the B-47, B-58, and later the XB-70. Both caused the Soviets to sink enormous amounts of resources into the Mig 25 Foxbat... designed for high altitude & high speed intercept. Then we decided to go low level. TFR in the B-58 and refined later in the FB-111 and B-1 made the Foxbat a non-item.
The instability problems you addressed were near complete resolution. Fly-by-wire was and is a staple for unstable military aircraft, ie current day fighters. Inherently unstable aircraft are desirable for this type. Not so for bombers.
In the late 1940s, the only way to test a theory or "fix" was to build it and fly it. That was one of the reasons for the N9Ms (I know three were built, but I've read there were four). These were used to "tweak" fixes for the XB-35 and the YB-49 along with wind tunnel testing. The original design data (with the modifications) was submitted to NASA by Jack Northrop in 1968. NASA completely vindicated the design.
One of the original test pilots was on hand for the first flight of the B-2. The test pilot for the B-2 casually asked for advise. The old salt's response was: "Don't stall it!" That's what killed Glenn Edwards... he had received the same warning.
If the Wing had not been cancelled, there is no telling what direction heavy lift aircraft would have taken... Another "what if" for history.
I lived in Pasadena, CA, in the 90s. I had a condo, just a block off the Rose Parade route. One New Years, a B2 preceded the parade, at low altitude. That was a eerie sight !
This is fascinating, and Curious Droid consistently has that effect on topics I had no interest or particular knowledge of. It also inspired me to read a bit about Jack Northrup, who I had no idea was such an intriguing inventor/innovator/entrepreneur, and how striking was his personal torment from the rejection by the corrupt or inept or what-have-you bureaucrats in the military and federal government. I wonder if they could make a movie, "Northrup".
One of my favorite air show memories is watching the small yellow flying wing in the skies around Chino, CA. It's a shame that the planes and its pilot were lost in a crash.
4:15 "During the war" Reminded me of uncle Albert.
radgoncan oh yeah, only fools and horses
If I may: The Horten 229 was not for the 1000x1000x1000 requirement, I think that was the Horten XVIII project, which was a massively upscaled version. The 229 was initially a study to test the viability of the 18 if I remember correctly, but it was so good it was ordered into production as a fighter
Ben Hooper - You are correct. Good call.
The thumbnail was the exact poster I had on my wall as a kid
Hi Paul! Great video as usual, thanks! Just a small correction- at 1:05 subtitle says N.Grummen, it's Grumman mate, cheers)
I believe the wingspan of the YB-49 and the B2 are the same - 172 feet. Saw that in the same documentary on the History Channel.
From what I've always understood , that design is very difficult to control for whatever reason. And modern avionics making adjustments by the microsecond is the reason they were able to overcome that design issue.
Like the recognition given to some early pioneers like Geoffrey Hill (with his Pterodactyl). Nice clip.
Little correction: The N1M was a single engine model to prove that the tailless wing concept would work. The twin engine single pilot plane is the N9M. It was built during the development of the YB-35 to test engine out characteristics. The locations of the two engines on the N9M were such that with one out of the N9M, it would act like a YB-35 with two engines out on one wing. A single N9M is all that survives from the YB-35/49 project. There were a few other concepts for a flying wing fighter with a prone flying position and a chin rest for the pilot during high G maneuvers. It was later adapted to have jet engines, and test pilots were able to pull 12G maneuvers in them without blacking out. Those projects were also canceled when Northrop refused to merge with Convair, although they were not without their crashes. Of note, Jack Northrop designed the wing of the DC-2, the precursor to the most successful airplane ever built. The sturdy structure of the DC-3's wing is thanks to Jack Northrop, and his ideas he had in the early 30s designing his first flying wing.
flying wings: the most expensive plane to develop
F-35: hold my beer
The best cost the most
@@rich-qk7dc id hardly call it the best. best for what? wasting tax payer money? then yeah, its been great at doing that.
@@millermonsterair it is the best bomber in the world hands down, most who think its a waste of taxpayers money are not wven American
@@rich-qk7dc i see your flying wing and raise you a B-1 Lancer.....lol..... i was referring to the F-35 being a huge waste of taxpayer money...
F-35 is also the best
Everyone is aware of the use of the flying wing for Hang Gliders. And I'm sure any aero-designer would be aware of the basic stability and drag of their designs. Well, I started working on understanding how it worked when I first began flying them in 1975. And after years of building thousands of models and several prototype hang gliders I figured out the bell shaped lift distribution. Then a friend showed me a book about the Horten wings with an explanation of the very thing I had just found.
Using models I set out looking for a perfect balance of sweep, twist and cylindricalization to optimize the span efficiency. At the time huge amount of twist were used on most flex wings, reducing efficiency and performance. In 1983 I came up with a idea to use a radial conical form with an apex 3/4 span forward of CG as the optimal shape, compensating to best glide the incidence to span wise air flow. Of course that would be dependent on speed and loading to be truly optimized.
I then built a 38' span sweep wing hang glider utilizing pre-stressed spars and mechanical wing warping. The concept came out of discussions about "How would you improve the design of the rigid Fledgling glider." Aspect ratio was 7.3, static balance was right on your shoulders, with a weight of 82 lbs. The Cross Spar was 92% of span with a collapsing compression strut that automatically engaged as the wings were spread out. I used 3 sets of flying wires to create the conical shaping. That provided me triangulated support and the ability to fully control conicalization and twist. The battens were supported by the leading edge and cross spar making incidence along the span absolute. The tips were floating, and controlled by a lockout batten with similar support points, about 3' inboard. I called it a semi-rigid wing. The mechanical wing warping was accomplished with 3/32' 7 by 19 flying wires around pulleys on the control frame and moved by a rotating drum on the keel at CG. The cables changed the relationship of leading edge to cross spar and the drum rotated by weight shift. Initially giving wash out on the inboard wing and wash in on the outboard. I later found that the wash in was not necessary. While flying the craft I could initiate turns with a simple pull on the leading edge cable that caused the lockout tube to rotate, producing beautifully coordinated turns. First test fights were simple weighted free fights. Then swallow hill fights. The wing flew from the first day. I made an 800' cliff launch within days after demonstrating controlled turns and stable hands off straight flight. Then 1300', then 1500'. At Henson Gap Tn (altitude above ground 1500') I calculated turn points of 10:1, 12:1 and 14:1 and flew test flights in morning smooth air. Straight out at trim speeds, and best guess at turn points. The 10:1 turn point I could make easily in my UP Comet 185, the 12:1 turn point was iffy with any room for a proper approach. The Warper could make the 12:1 turn point every time with 400'+ to spare. And the 14:1 with plenty of room for a set up and 2 leg approach. I fully believe it achieved glides of 16:1 and better with a fully exposed pilot in a spaghetti harness and 3 sets of top and bottom flying wires when fully tightened.
The wing was destroyed by a sudden squall line that blew it into a power line pole while it was set up in my back yard.
Look for a small paper called, "The wing is the Thing". Good ideas.
Yeah yeah no more flying wing, boohoo.
*launch Ace Combat*
I TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
So that's where all my guitar picks went.... On his shirt.
I was gonna say, hes got my dunlop tortex's all over it
Someone should make 2 of these to store fighter drones for use on a war near a certain elevator
I love your channel, your content is always very interesting, well researched, and put together nicely. Additionally whenever I can't fall asleep, I put on a couple hr playlist of Curious Droid's content... His soothing voice and relaxing background music always puts me right to sleep when I'm tired but can't seem to fall asleep... Do not take that as me implying that you are boring, as when I'm up and going during the day I can watch your videos for hrs... Keep up the great work..
Seems pretty obvious how birds can have stable flight with a vertical stabilizer.
They're not fixed wing aircraft. Hell, they're not even fixed fuselage aircraft.
A bird can just tilt it's head to change its aerodynamics.
They can twist their tail to make it vertical
The flying wing was definitely "stealthy" for the era. My father was a radar operator on a B-50 training in Tuscon around '48-'49 and said he tracked a plane on their radar, but it was too small to be the tanker they were supposed to find. After some radio calls to avoid the planes colliding, the other plane turned and dad's radar screen lit up with a bigger signature. He looked out the observation blister and could see the Flying Wing turning away. Once it went wings-level, it was like trying to see a pencil line in the sky.
Re: The proposed Convair-Northrop "merger"... Dad was in aerospace after his service (he worked at Convair then moved to Lockheed) and worked with some ex-Northrop guys from that time. They said Northrop was given more or less and ultimatum not only by Symington and Convair's President, but also a certain Texas Senator who they said tried to squeeze Northrop by his gonads. He told Northrop he'd never get another military contract unless he caved in. That Texas Senator was Lyndon Johnson -- and Convair was based in Ft. Worth at the time. So we've always had the best congressmen that money can buy!
Thanks for telling that story!
Oh man, those flying wings look so cool in flight.
I once saw a fictional giant flying wing airliner cutaway in Popular Science (or similar) magazine of the 1950s or 60s. It had galleries, restaurants, a hotel and movie theater. It was nuclear powered and was always in flight. Shuttle jets would bring people to and from it when it was near to cities. That image stuck with me, as the nicest way to get around the world.
General "I want the Guam pilots salaries garnished for the B2 crash!"
Advisor "their military salaries will never cover it"
General "then give them a 550m dollar Yr raise and garnish that!"
I remember when I was about 8 or 9 years old I was standing between our house and the neighbor's house in Western PA when I looked up and saw the Flying Wing going over. It was on it's approach to land at the Air Force Base in Pittsburgh. It was BIG!
The flying wing is being used to the max in the RC world 😉
Thanks for amazing content mate
Cheers
Years ago I had a book of paper (thin card) aeroplanes to cut out and make. It included a flying wing glider which flew very well. The wing tips were bent up vertically, does that disqualify it? Maybe you could tell me: when he refers to vertical stabilisation is that provided by the horizontal surface or the vertical one in a conventional plane? I'm wondering about winglets, you see. Aeromodelers are often near the cutting edge! I recommend a TH-cam search for "18 wing ornithopter". The most astonishing flying thing I've seen!
Yep, the Klingberg flying wing, and the Zagi wings come to mind. The pure flying wing has another common offspring: High performance hang gliders.
@@SVSky the next step for an RC guy like me is definitely hang gliders 👍
@@raykent3211 my RC wing the E-flite opterra 2 meter wing sounds much like what you describing
Have some videos on my channel
It have the tips bend up to and two small vertical tips at the fuselage
One of my best flying and gliding RC planes
About disqualified as an wing because of the vertical tips 🤔
Actually a good question my friend
@@laseonestar That was my progression. You can see on my channel when I made the jump.
This aircraft was a useful prop for 1960's sci-fi movies. I recall seeing on TV old movies where the threat of giant insects, toads or whatnot (as well as some hapless space aliens) was countered--after all the usual armaments failed--with the command "Send in the Flying Wing". Stock footage would show the futuristic and presumably super-powerful machine on its way to save the day. I wish I could remember the titles of those movies.
Today is my birthday. I am an aviator, and a huge fan of curios droid. I take today’s episode as a gift. Thanks CD!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Peter Booth...enjoy your special day!!
Happy birthday. Today is ur special day
Happy birthday
Have a hap, hap, happy birthday.
Yo Pete, welcome aboard & have a good one : )
I love your videos. The topics of your content are fabulous and the first thing I do when I open TH-cam is checking your channel for new videos. There’s no better way of falling asleep listening to your calm voice talking about interesting stuff. I’m looking forward to more aviation related videos.
Anyone remember the Flying Wing from Raiders of the lost Ark? I know it's a prop, but I had to google it again.
It was created for the film, it was not an actual aircraft design.
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman That's why I said it was a prop.
Remember that , its scene like indi at Egypt and shot his enemy with the tail machine. Gun
th-cam.com/video/X-WgGjJ_On8/w-d-xo.html here American vs banzai charge at ww2
A 'bad guy' in Africa ate that prop . . . (Pat Reid? : )
Nazis actually built at least one.
Another name for the flying wing is "Span Loader" (indeed, the term "tailless span loader" can be seen in the text of the letter from NASA at 10:13 in the video) and that brings up another important point in the concept. Since the entire body of the aircraft provides lift, there is no need for a "wing box", a structure that must carry the entire weight of the fuselage, empennage, and cargo. Since a flying wing carries the load across the lifting area, the extra weight of such a structure is unnecessary. I have heard that the XB-35 and YB-49 suffered from a "pitch instability" problem in hard turns that caused the plane to flip over forward (or backwards) like a falling leaf- totally unrecoverable. Despite claims that the Horton-229 was phenomenally maneuverable, I have also heard that the Horton Brothers never actually solved that problem.
I'm very curious about northrops upcoming bomber, the b21 raider. Said to be a smaller and far cheaper version of the b2.
It's beyond top secret though lol
Not Secret anymore. I worked on the B-2 Program at Palmdale when that was Secret. The B-21 isn't smaller but has a much smaller radar image, Cheaper? Nah.
@@itsjohndell really? I watched a video from the infographics show about it. Guess the info is dated/incorrect then
The B-2 Bomber is without a doubt the most beautiful aircraft ever made.
I love the B2 bomber. It looks like something we would build to trick aliens into believing we're more technologically advanced than we really are.
Shawn Elliott : Cept they'd be laughing at 'us'.
@@suzyqualcast6269: Nobody laughs at the B2 bomber. It looks too cool. Even people a million years more technologically advanced would admire the B2 the way we admire well-made flint arrowheads. Same with the SR-71.
Thank you so much for another fantastic educational video! Love the shirts and was surprised this time you didn’t mention where it was from! Happy Thanksgiving if you live in US from another Brit!
If only the enemy could program their radar to lock onto a 600MPH pigeon...
I don't think a computer would find that too difficult
@@armr6937 ...but but pumpkin POTUS has said the latest and best jets are totally invisible "you can't see 'em" so who am I to believe now!!!
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@@puirYorick You're talking to the world, here. Spain in particular. Couldn't give a damn so long as he does his job keeping the US from going to shit. And shit is always one step away with that Ponzi scheme that ALL of us are in. No time for dallying with politics, this.
@@armr6937 Yea, I love how everyone blames (any current president) for the conditions of the country (good or bad) now, when the problems, politics, profit and potential of the country goes back well over 150 years.
@@armr6937 I appear to have found myself communicating with an alternate reality. You think he's doing his job so we clearly don't exist in the same cosmos.
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So what happened to them? What is current use of them besides the B-2. What is in development? It feels like the video ended short of its goal.
Nord VPN...Ouch!!!
Probably contractually obligated.
Helps me watch US-only Netflix shows from my home in the UK. I ain’t mad. Happy to pay the tiny amount a month extra for that.
@@mra2zee hoxx VPN... also plenty of others that have not been hacked and not tell their customers about it for months!!!
The big problem that aircraft have with flying wing designs as opposed to birds, especially going back to earlier days before fly-by-wire, was that while an aircraft's wing is mostly solid, with a limited range of motions and variability, a bird's wing and tail feathers are in contrast extremely dexterous, kind of like how a spider can easily run short distances with it's eight tiny legs. The fact that computerisation has come a long way does make a huge difference, but the other half of the problem remains. It would be interesting to see an aircraft design that used something like the many individual feathers of a bird to produce many highly variable control surfaces.
Wait you mean the arsenal bird
Just seeing that clip of the Northrop YB-49 flying overhead is awesome.
I hope NordVPN paid you a lot for this.... and I also hope that if you actually take online security seriously.... that you do not use them.
Other than that, great video, as always!
Y not, genuinely curious
AirVPN + Swiss exit server (best data privacy laws in the EU) FTW!
@@dakotadirig7562 they completely overlooked an active and in use hole in one of their servers...for about 6 months
and handled it badly when they were found out.
so yes, we can assume that hackers have full access to the NordVPN servers
I had to once again turn my phone up to hear you over the shirt. Love it.
The Flying Wing was sent in to drop the A Bomb in the fight against the aliens in 'The War Of The Worlds' of 1953
And that approx 30 second clip sparked my interest in flying wings.
Too bad it didn't work, they kept coming!
;-)
i can't believe Curious Droid left out that important part of history?! thumbs down!!
:P ;)
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Saw the film when I was a kid and ended up writing paper in the 6th or 7th grade about the B2 titled "A Next Generation Aircraft." Sadly, the flying wing was nothing compared to... um.... Was it the common cold that the aliens died from in original flick?
@@pentagramprime1585 Yes, some sort of lowly germ we're immune to.
8:27)
"Hey captain there's something on the radar. About the size of a small bird but it's going 600mph"
Why is he still using Nord VPN after they got hacked?
They are still a very good service.
Because money, it's real simple.
@@pierredubois5851 You have zero ability to confirm that.
@@otm646 I use a VPN in order to hide from the French government (for torrents) and to access Amazon prime USA from France. In both cases it works very well. That's it.
it wasn't a hack.. it's was a compromised sever via a third party setup and it was 1 server out of 50+
in reality it can (and has happened) to any vpn out there.
if anything they are probably the safest they have ever been as they did a audit of their systems to gain customer confidence back.
Always loved the b2 spirit. Absolutely love the coverage on this channel
I love the topics of your videos, they usually fit my interests perfectly
There is a big issue about tacking on the R&D costs to production costs. This gives you a highly inflated and unrealistic idea of how much each new aircraft costs. And it creates unrealistic expectations as to how much money will be saved by cancelling the program. R&D should be considered to be expenses that are completely separate from the procurement costs.
At the time they were being made the price of an additional B-2 would have been ~$250 million. So when the B-2 crashed in Guam we lost an airplane worth $250 million (less depreciation). And since the B2's are at about half of their planned service life - their value is only about $125 million.
What a shirt! I've never seen so many pic's in my life!!
As a side note. When I was in school/university (1970's), I had an instructor, who was on the flight test team for the original flying wings (1940's-1950's). He stated that they had a flight from, roughly LA, Calif. to San Francisco, Calif. During this test they were unable to track the flying wing on "Radar." So, maybe, time was waiting for computer controlled flight?
Thanks
"Posted 1 minutes ago"
Looks in comments and they are all from an hour ago
Patrons have early access. That usually explains why just uploaded videos have old comments on it.
Not sure if you're being snarky or if you're one of the people who hasn't gotten the concept that you can pre-release videos privately.
It only shows the public posting date.
@@Cemi_Mhikku O
@@Cemi_Mhikku You don't need to be rude about it.
@@scarfabledscar If you call that tiny bit of cheek rude, you may not want to spend much time on the internet.
As a retired FAA employee, I found your vids exceptional in quality & technicality! Keep up the good work!
with NordVPN help, this plane can go incognito in any country.
Such a thrill to enjoy the 7-th view. Congrats for the great work, love your channel!
Sorry, but I just gotta play Daredevil in the background...and somehow it really is strangely fitting.
Some trivia: Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a Late Cretaceous pterosaur the height of a giraffe, and with a wingspan the size of a Cessna 172, was named after Jack Northrop.
I will admit. As soon as I saw this I thought of the Arsenal Bird.
In the early 1980s, a group of Northrop engineers visited for several weeks to Dr. Reimar Horten, in his house in Córdoba (Argentina).
They consulted Horten on aerodynamics and stability of flying wings.
This notion is based on what exactly?
Love ur videos!👍✌️
just found your channel, love your work Mr Droid. Look forward to viewing all your movies, Ken, Australia
3:20 anybody recognize this aircraft from captain America the first avenger
no, I don't really recognize it, in fact, I don't think there was any movie about Captain America, who is Captain America btw?
I think it should be pointed out that most stealth technology does not arise from paint, or cross section, but does from electronics and wire meshes built into the wing.
That's it, I'm fired!!
I can't fire myself, I quit!!
G'day,
Not a bad video, but you glossed over the reason why the YB-49 crashed, twice.
Because there were no Baffles inside their Fool-Tanks, all Throttle-movements had to be made VERY Gently & Gradually, particularly if less than 3/4 Full.
Sudden acceleration, or sustained steep Climbs, put all the Fuel at the back of the Tanks, moving the Centre of Gravity well beyond the controllable & flyable limits, inducing an irrecoverable Stall/Spin...
Whereas suddenly retarding the Throttes put all the Motion-Lotion onto the front of the Tanks, & the resulting Nose-Down moment caused the YB-49 to pitch-down & tumble, rotating end-over-end all the way down.
As I recall it, the two which they crunched bracketed both of the possible options ; and after the first Desert-Floor Fireball the Fleet were being retrofitted with Anti-Surge Fueltank-Baffles, when Glen Edwards (after whom Murroc Dry Lake AFB was renamed...) died in the second YB-49 Fireball - that cancelled the whole Program.
Such is Life,
Have a good one.
;-p
Ciao !
The Horton Brothers,where the daddies of the flying wing!
those other guys making flying wings before them pfft, amateurs......even though they were making breakthroughs years before the hortons....thats just stupid logic talking
@@bigshow196 You know when someone's been watching too much History Channel when they say Aliens or Nazis created everything.
@@coryfice1881 im not saying its alien nazis....but its alien nazis
Everybody gansta till the boomerang *drops bombs*
I think he did one on Nuclear powered planes once. Now there's a crazy😵 idea. ( Look it up. It was an insane idea!
It was actually a good idea, just that satellites were a far better idea...
Scott Manley also has a good video about it I think it's called project Pluto.
And curious droid also has one th-cam.com/video/DZHONQAMV48/w-d-xo.html
@@ftr98 Project Pluto was a bona fide insane concept.
You see a B2 stealth bomber may have the size of a pigeons radar cross section
But, you know, a pigeon doesn’t fly at 628mph
Now you only need the airplane to get close enough to the radar antenna for it to get returns off targets that small.