When Piglet first asked me to do the flight model on this aircraft, i don't think either of us had any idea that it would be his last.. I've sat on it, all these years, silently waiting and hoping for his eventual return. There are no gauges, no interior textures, and no doggie bag. I, like Piglet, put my heart into this. Since I'm not gone, I ask that you kindly not make any changes to my aircraft.cfg or airfile. Let me know what you think needs changing and I'll be happy to make the changes if they fit within the actual vehicle. After all, just because we numbers people don't work with the visual model, doesn't mean we dont put as much into it as a modeler does.. I appreciate your understanding..
Jack Northrop's vision for the flying wing was a fleet of these things flying around the globe carrying happy passengers to their destinations. The wing was efficient in every way imaginable and cost saving in ways no other plane could ever hope to achieve, but to realize his dream, he needed funding, and the Air Force, though skeptical, came to his rescue. The Air Force needed a fast inter-continental bomber capable of delivering a nuclear weapon over a ten thousand mile radius. The wing could do that. However, the Norden bomb sights used at the time, demanded that the bomber be stable as a rock in order for it to hit its target. The wing surges side to side constantly, so the Air Force trashed it, but kept interest enough to have Northrop build the YB-49 Jet Bomber. Both aircraft were found unsuitable however and subsequently scrapped along with Jack's dream, till nineteen eighty seven when plans were laid down by the Air Force for the new B-2 flying wing.
Submitted by warchild February 25th, 2018
Jack Northrop's vision for the flying wing was a fleet of these things flying around the globe carrying happy passengers to their destinations. The wing was efficient in every way imaginable and cost saving in ways no other plane could ever hope to achieve, but to realize his dream, he needed funding, and the Air Force, though skeptical, came to his rescue. The Air Force needed a fast inter-continental bomber capable of delivering a nuclear weapon over a ten thousand mile radius. The wing could do that. However, the Norden bomb sights used at the time, demanded that the bomber be stable as a rock in order for it to hit its target. The wing surges side to side constantly, so the Air Force trashed it, but kept interest enough to have Northrop build the YB-49 Jet Bomber. Both aircraft were found unsuitable however and subsequently scrapped along with Jack's dream, till nineteen eighty seven when plans were laid down by the Air Force for the new B-2 flying wing.
Submitted by warchild February 25th, 2018
