Northrop N9M Flying Wing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- This week's adventure was a trip to Chino Airport and the Planes of Fame museum to see the Northrop N9M Flying Wing fly. While there, they were gracious enough to give me a tour of the other Northrop, Grumman and Ryan airplanes that they have in their inventory. If you haven't been to Planes of Fame, make sure to stop by and pay them a visit to really learn a lot about aviation history.
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Thanks for this video. David Vopat, Chief Pilot for the Planes of Fame N9M was a good friend of mine and an amazing person. When he wasn't flying for the airlines, he was flying really cool small planes. Rest in peace my friend.
I am glad that you enjoyed the video, Jim! I really enjoyed having the opportunity to talk with him and learn more about his experience flying a piece of history.
Still could not wrap my head around the fact that David is no longer with us. Wish I had taken up the offer to fly with him. Do what you love, and do it today. Don't wait. Honored to have called him my friend. RIP
Saddened by the loss of this aircraft today and its pilot. :(
The news was very sad! I am not sure who was flying today.
Jason Daniel Shaw David Vopat. I’m a volunteer at the museum and we’re very distraught:(
That is horrible! My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family. Any word on the cause yet?@@itsimbatime
Jason Daniel Shaw not sure, we will see when the Ntsb has a conclusion I suppose, thank you for the video though. Memories to be cherished.
Engine failure?
The wing was a beautiful plane. I got to see it a few times on the ground in museum. never saw it fly in person. Very sad that it was lost and David the pilot as well. You can see his love for the plane in this video.
Used to fly to Chino out of Santa Monica too. Sad loss of the N9M. My bother worked on the YF-17 at Northrup. I watched Ed restore a Zero at Jimmy's place
I love looking at these old birds. Thank you for sharing your time with us. I go to the USAF Museum in Dayton since it is within a comfortable drive. Which isn't very often. I'm glad those aircraft were saved.
Inspiring to hear these knowledgeable and enthusiastic volunteers.
Thanks for sharing.
I used to work at the Stuart Florida Airport where Grumman had a repair facility for the OV-1. They also built the wing center section of the 737 for Boeing and had a bill board saying "The heart of of every 737 is a Grumman".
That's awesome! What year was that?
The years I worked ar the airport were 1975 thru 1980.
I got to photograph and touch N9MB after restoration but before test flights. Glad to see it again. You guys cleaned up the place since 1995, looks real nice.
That's awesome! It still looks great today. I don't work for the museum. They have come along way, though, since I first saw the museum in 2010.
Very well preserved! Similar to the design of the Horten HO229. A more recent development of this type configuration is the Verhees Delta.
+Arthur Cabral It is a one-third scale proof-of-concept for the YB-35 and YB-49 and it was flying by 1942 before the Ho-229 was designed. Not much 229 about it really.
The Verhee's Delta designer will not sell diagrams or plans at this time.
Happy to see this video but heartbroken at the same time.
It's very sad but a great memory!
RIP David...
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Thanks a lot for the comment, William!
Nice tour. A little better than so many. Enjoyed the talk about handling characteristics.
I agree about the music.
Thanks a lot! Yeah, I understand about the music.
Rest easy Flying wing Pilot!
I thought it was going to be about just the flying wing. I am glad it covered the other planes too.
Thanks and I am glad that you enjoyed the video!
Thanks for making this video. Jack Northrop was way ahead of his time! I would love to build a homebuilt flying wing.
Yes he was and yeah, that would be a blast!
Jack Northrop was right on time, congress was not.
Germany's Horten brothers were not only ones building flying wings.
So true! This bird looks like a gemini to Hoerten flying wing🔝🔝
RIP David.
RIP to the pilot, looks like this is the same exact aircraft that just crashed in Norco...
It was. It was the last remaining N9M in existence :/
I believe there were 4 built, of which the other 3 were scrapped. So yes, you're correct in this being the last example. ☹
Carlos L Valdez 4 built. 1 crashed, 2 scrapped and the N9MB was the 4th built and only remaining original flying wing.
David Vopat was the pilot killed same person talking in the video I had no idea anyone was flying one of these would have been great to see it fly
Ed restored his first Zero sharing a building with cars of the stars in the early 70s. That and the Frank both sold to Japan which funded the Chino operation. I was friends with the owner of Cars of the Stars.
I’m surprised the flying wing didn’t have counter-rotating props, like the Beech Duchess
Very nice, had no idea there were any of these left, let alone flying.
Yeah, Planes of Fame does a great job with their flying collection!
From his description of the yaw input sounds like easy to get in trouble then they only take it out 6 times a year how do you get enough hours on it at the same time the more you fly it more chance of something going wrong.
So does that pea shooter in the hangar fly? Just curious.
+Brian Jordan Yes, it flies occasionally. th-cam.com/video/9clzKTVMbi4/w-d-xo.html
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That's just awsome. Thanks.
RIP Mr. David Vopat... tragic loss.
I loved every type shown here but was really hoping to watch a video about the wing - she only shows up at 9:33 :(
I will try and do a more specific video to just the N1M. This was an event that I attended that focused on the N1M but I got some interviews from some of the staff/volunteers about other legacy Northrop Grumman aircraft
I was having a bad day when I posted my comment, I enjoyed your video thanks man
No worries, I hope that today is a better day! I have enjoyed reading all of the feedback on the video, good and bad, as it will help me when making the next one. I am new to posting these kinds of videos but want to do more. I just hate being in the videos haha.
Awesome video thank you so much for sharing
Thanks and I am glad that you enjoyed it! I need to make some new ones soon...
Crazy to think of flying a prototype from the 40's... I feel like you would fly conservatively
09:30 for the aircraft. 12:30 for brief flashes of flight.
Thanks for indexing those parts. I do think I explained in other comments that the event was put on by planes of fame about the N9M but I did end up interviewing some of the workers and volunteers about other legacy Northrop Grumman aircraft (since I work for NG) and had an interest in showcasing some of the those planes as well.
T_T Goodbye to the pilot and a small but important part of American history.
Thenks.need more info
It´s only a Horten derivat...
For a video titled "Northrop N9M Flying Wing" it had disappointingly little video time of that aircraft. Disappointing in that respect. A better title might be "Planes of Fame Museum Fund Raiser"
As I have stated in replies to other comments, the event was centered around the N1M but I did talk to the staff/volunteers about other legacy Northrop Grumman aircraft. I also asked them to tell me if the aircraft was flying or could be restored to flying status. My thought behind this was that I would put this video together because, as I stated in the video, I do work for Northrop Grumman and would like to see our company donate more money to restoring these pieces of our (NG & US) history. Thanks for the feedback, though.
We sure saw a lot of that aircraft in this video.
irishguy13 thanks for the feedback. I addressed this in another comment but the event was about the N1M, while I was there I did look to interview some of the volunteers on other legacy Northrop Grumman aircraft, since I do work for Northrop Grumman. I will try and put together a video that is more about the N1M itself.
irishguy13 thanks for the feedback. I addressed this in another comment but the event was about the N1M, while I was there I did look to interview some of the volunteers on other legacy Northrop Grumman aircraft, since I do work for Northrop Grumman. I will try and put together a video that is more about the N1M itself.
irishguy13 irishguy13 thanks for the feedback. I addressed this in another comment but the event was about the N1M, while I was there I did look to interview some of the volunteers on other legacy Northrop Grumman aircraft, since I do work for Northrop Grumman. I will try and put together a video that is more about the N1M itself.
Why LOUD music and soft voice? Music is just filler, speech is the real meal.
Thanks for the feedback, I am still learning how to keep the sounds level. Hopefully the next video will be better.
I finally had to turn the sound off. The crap music was too loud, overpowering everything else. Why do these otherwise OK vids ALWAYS have to have music?
The Grand Canyon is not in southern Arizona. Arizona's northern border.
I am sure the gentleman knows that and probably just made a mistake when describing its location.
I miss the N9MB, and Mr Vopat😪
With COUNTER ROTATING props handling would be better.
R.I.P.
hi again can't seem to find the tune humi humi by ciala on iTunes where did you acquire the tune please ?
Great little adventure. Please lower the inter-music volume. As soon as the dialogue ends I get startled and have to rush to lower the volume before I wake the house up.
Thank you and it was a lot of fun. I am working on getting the sound levels correct. Still learning...
At 1:25 in video you have a twin engine, triple tailplane, with US ARMY 59 604 on tail. What sort of aircraft was that please?
That is a Grumman OV-1 Mohawk.
Cheers.
Why was the roundel covered up on that aircraft?
no GAF Nomads in the collection?
hi just seen yr vid …..what is the music called and who made it ?
I did put that at the end of the video...it is Huma Huma by Cielo
Nice video, but the music is too loud.
Thanks and I am working on trying to understand the sound levels.
I am also inclined to turn it off because of the loud sound compared to the talk WTF for ????
Flying wings without FBW controls and ejection seats belong on the ground.
I did a nickel in Chino. I hate that prison.
While I love 1930s - 1940s era aircraft, you waste a lot of time on planes other than the N9M which I had hoped to see in depth reporting on.
Thanks for the feedback. The event was a flying demonstration of the flying wing but I wanted to showcase some of the other aircraft that were legacy Northrop Grumman (the company that I work for) as well while there. I will try and get back out there and make a more in-depth video of just the flying wing. Thanks again for the feedback!
I look forward to that video / report.
Music extremely too loud , the subject of the video starts almost at the end !
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Northrop N9M Flying Wing...INCORRECT TITLE
I have collated over 180 videos of the Northrop N-1M, N-9M, XB-35 & YB-49 "Flying Wing" - - - - > click xo ox to see them !!
Lower volume on the music PLEASE!
when you said OV-1 Mohawk I thought you said Obi-Wan
Hahahaha I see what you did there....
What aircraft is that? 2:30
Pedro Turok WT in the background?
Grumman OV-1 Mohawk
Just fyi planes of fame guy the grand canyon is not even close to southern Arizona
9:34 flying wing
One of a kind should of been parked and not flown. Lost a priceless pilot and the plane. RIP
Did he just say southern Arizona NEAR the Gran Canyon!? That is so wrong.....
Yeah, I am sure that he just made a mistake.
Lower the bass level of the music
Thanks for the tip.
what ever that noise in the back ground was shure h××ll was not music I stopped the video
at 3 or 4 minutes
grumpy old man with a bus
Thanks for the feedback on the video.
Actually, the purpose of our government chopping up those aircraft was so they couldn't reach the market. As it was, sales of airliners and work planes was much lower because of all the surplus aircraft. If that sounds like a wasteful practice, it is.
What a disappointing video with a misleading title. Most of it was not about the wing. And we never got to see it fly. I saw the original before it was restored when I was a lead engineer at Northrop. Incidentally, the two logos on the nose are both hoakey and incorrect. The Northrop bird-in-triangle logo was different back then, much heavier and forceful.
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What a shame that thexe people are not as interested in honesty as they are in bragging.
The most successful wing aircraft was built long before this thing took to thd air,
It was built and designed bynthe Hougton bros in Germany and was powered by jet engines.
It was removed from Germany by America who took it to bits and stored it away for near on sixty years before someone worked out that the build and materials made it the very first stealth aircraft every.
It was very good, so good that when Hitler demanded a plane that could fly a thousand miles and back and carry a thousand pound bomb the Hourgthon brothers designed a four engine vesrsion from which thevdesign for the American stealth bimber was copied, if you saw the two put along side each othermost would be hard pushed to understand that one of the two was designed in 1945,
AT ABOUT A HUNDRETH OF THE COST OF THE AMERICAN VERSION.
John Laccohee-Joslin thanks for the feedback. The first flight of Jack’s N1M was in 1940, five years before the US found the 229. This was also not his first flying wing design, those of which came in late 1920s. Additionally, I am not sure that the 229, I guess that is what you are referring to as being the “most successful wing aircraft,” was the most successful wing aircraft. I would give that to the B-2, but if you want to say of its time, I think some clarification of successful would be required. I could be wrong about this, but I don’t think the 229 ever saw combat.
What a load. The Horton Bros. Worked out of a garage. Wages in Germany during WW2 were extremely low. Not to mention, slave labor was common. Quit licking Der ‘Furer’s, boots.
Kopie der Horten ! Alles geklaut !
I am not really sure what you mean...
Jason Daniel Shaw He's saying the design was stolen from the hortens, which is nonsense.
Ah ok. Yeah, first flight of the N9M was a year and a half before the 229.
+Jason Daniel Shaw
And the 229 that did flew at the time was only a glider. The only powered one to fly ( the v.II) crashed after its second flight-hour in February of '1945.
A completely misleading title. Not impressed!