This Plane Is CURSED The Forgotten Flying Wing
New Channel: Discord: BUSINESS INQUIRES: The XB35 flying wing could have only existed thanks to one man, Jack Northrop, a brilliant engineer who realized that aircraft design had gone in the wrong direction. The sole purpose of a plane is to fly, and thus, all these extra areas like fulsage, tail and more don t really contribute to its main objective of generating lift. So why not make a plane that was just the wing The XB35 flying wing would have a total length of 53 feet and a wing span of 172 feet (52 meters). As the whole aircraft was a wing, it would have a huge wing area of 4, 000 square feet, 370 meters squared, giving it an aspect ratio of 7. 4 nearly the same wing area as a beoing triple 7300, a plane that easily dwafs this in size. the aircraft also had an impressivly small radar cross section which would be very useful for stealth operati
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