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[CholeraJoe]

Great AirPower thread. I spent some temporary duty at Edwards AFB, CA. It doesn't look much different than it did in the 40's. I got to see the Space Shuttle land there once.

[Iris7]

"Normal" airplanes have a great deal of "flight stability" built into them. The distance between the wing and the rear airfoils makes a strong "couple" force to straighten out the aircraft so that aerodynamic forces control "yaw" (swing sideways to the line of flight) and "pitch", (change wing angle of attack, and therefore center of lift, lift amount, and drag). There is "dihedral", a vee shaped wing mounting, where the outboard ends of the wing are higher than the inboard, so that when the aircraft rolls to the side the lower wing's lift becomes greater than the upper wings lift, leveling the aircraft. There is a bunch more of this kind of stuff, you need someone with more expertise than I.

My point is that Northrop's flying wing was unstable, especially in the jet version, and unstable because of inherent design. There was no military reason to produce it over the B-36, in fact the reverse, since it was dangerous to fly. Landing in a crosswind must have been about impossible. Anything but very gentle turns would be flirting with death. I do not understand how it could have made a spin recovery.

Anyway, maybe someone with special knowledge can say something about this attractive but alarming design? Engineer pilots, maybe?