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05-17-2006, 11:19 PM
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| Flying Wing Planes Greetings! I was recently talking with my dad about one of his early memories of planes returning from the war. He remembers many, many planes flying over head that he recalls as being Flying Wing planes (or at least they looked that way). However, all of the research I've done indicates they only really made it to prototype status. Is there any sort of plane that would have been mass-produced that would look similar to a Flying Wing style plane? Thanks! |
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05-18-2006, 12:39 AM
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05-18-2006, 04:28 AM
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| Siggy Master  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland
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| Hallo dotorg !!! Welcome to the forum.Could I ask you a question? When and where your dad have seen the planes?
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05-18-2006, 07:22 AM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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  | Welcome. I agree with FBJ read up on Northrop and also read up some on the Horten brothers.
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05-18-2006, 11:59 AM
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| Here's a recent link on this very site for some Horten info http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/air...ghlight=horten (Horton Brothers Flying Wings)
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05-18-2006, 10:10 PM
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| Were any Flying Wing planes that you know of either made my Northop or Horten put into mass-production at all? From what reading I've done so far, it seems like a limited number were ever created due to engineering flaws, etc. If this is the case, is there another style of plane that is close to a flying wing that was widely produced near the end of WWII? I wish I had more info to go on, I'm just trying to piece together an old childhood memory of my dad's. Thanks all! |
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05-18-2006, 11:31 PM
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| B-35s built... Serials of Northrop B-35: 42-13603 Northrop XB-35 42-38323 Northrop XB-35 42-102366/102378 Northrop YB-35 102367 and 102368 converted to YB-49. 102368 w/o 6-5-48 102369/102375 scrapped before flying 102376 converted to YRB-49A 102377,102378 scrapped before flying  usaf usaf
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05-19-2006, 02:54 AM
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| Siggy Master Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland
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| Guys,don't forget about the German technology, the five captured Me 163 Comet were tested in The USA shortly after WW2 had been ended.Serials FE 495/500/501/502/503.
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05-19-2006, 05:38 AM
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| and let's not forget the British Flying wings, we were working on some since the 20s, let's not get carried away thinking it was only the americans and Germans working on them........
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05-19-2006, 10:46 AM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Yeah but you still would not have seen 100s of flying wings coming back from the war. Probably a lot of the planes just looked that way at high alltitudes.
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05-19-2006, 10:56 AM
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| Until the B-2, the XB-35/ YB-49 was the only substantial production run of a flying wing....
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05-23-2006, 03:58 PM
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| Thanks all - you've been a big help! I would have to concur that what he remembers seeing most likely weren't flying wing aircraft, but if anything I know a little more about them now.  |
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05-25-2006, 04:16 PM
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05-26-2006, 03:47 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| That is a possiblity.
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