List of flying wing aircraft

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The experimental Northrop YB-49 bomber of the 1950s.

The Boeing X-48 is not a true flying wing aircraft, but a blended-body aircraft.

The following is a list of flying wing aircraft, along with some information about their roles, successfulness, and country of origin. A flying wing aircraft is one in which the fuselage and tail sections are abandoned, and the crew operates inside a thick wing. In theory, such an aircraft has a higher lift and lower drag than conventional ones, though it can be difficult to use properly due to its inherent instability.

List of flying wings

True flying wings

• Freel Flying Wing
• Northrop N-1M (1940)
• Northrop N-9M (1942)
• Horten Ho 229 (1944) — One of the few planes that met Hermann Göring's infamous performance requirements, the Ho 229 was an experimental fighter built by Nazi Germany near the end of World War II.
• Horten Ho XVIII — Design of a long range jet bomber.
• Northrop XP-79 Flying Ram (1945)
• XB-35 (1945) - competitor to the Convair B-36 heavy bomber
• Northrop YB-49 (1947) - YB-35 converted to use jet engines. Though proved to have stability problems and cancelled, it served as the inspiration for the B-2 Spirit.
• Northrop YB-35 (1948) - version of the XB-35.
• Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 (1949)- twin engined jet
• Northrop B-2 Spirit (1989) — A highly successful American stealth bomber, built as an alternative to the F-117 Nighthawk with a much larger payload.
• McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II — An American attack aircraft intended to replace the United States Navy's A-6 Intruder. The project was aborted in 1991 before any aircraft were built.

• Junkers G.38
• Boeing X-48
• Lockheed Martin/Boeing DarkStar Tier III-
• Boeing X-45C (2002) - unmanned aircraft
• Northrop Grumman X-47 Pegasus (2003) - unmanned aircraft

External links

• [NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project]

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