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| Northrop B-2 Spirit |
The Nazis were working on a flying wing during WW II.
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| Northrop N-1M from Wikipedia |
In this country, during the war, Jack Northrop had one. The Northrop N-1M, was yellow and had two pusher props. It was considered successful.
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| YB-49 from Wikipedia |
They went on to build the YB-49 which was, of course, jet powered and projected to be a bomber. It tended to wallow as it flew keeping the pilot very busy dampening the un-commanded movements. If I recall correctly, they built almost 100 B-49s before the program was call off.
The B-2 is also a flying wing. It works because the un-commanded movements are dampened by the fly-by-wire computer. Its stealthy qualities come from the inherent low radar cross section of the flying wing. In addition, the aircraft is coated with a radar absorbent material.
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