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Donny Fenn1
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Quite the collection, Rempel - thanks for that.
Saudi LAV IIIs. Would these be among the ones sold to the Saudis by us?
And possibly caused to be disabled by the Yemeni forces in their border war? Either by direct action or by the Saudis trying to avoid attacks and over reacting thereby ditching the vehicles?
Cockpit layout of YB-35 flying wing
Jack Northrop
"Later years
He broke a decades-long silence on the Flying Wing's demise in a 1979 television interview,[11] accusing the Air Force of killing the project to punish him for refusing to merge his company with Consolidated Vultee. He alleged that Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington threatened him by saying, "You’ll be goddamned sorry if you don’t."[8] Symington called the charge "preposterous and absurd" and told a researcher[12] "There was a tremendous overcapacity in the industry following World War II". He said Northrop came to him, seeking more business to help his struggling company. Symington said, "I may very well have suggested that he merge his company with Convair, who we knew was going to get business."[8] Aviation expert Bud Baker, who studied declassified documents and public records and conducted personal interviews with Symington, Air Force generals and Northrop's chairman, concluded the cancellation "was a sound decision, based on budgetary, technical, and strategic realities."[12]
Northrop dabbled in real estate and lost much of his personal fortune. In 1976, with his health failing, he felt compelled to communicate to NASA his belief in the low drag high lift concept inherent in the flying wing. NASA replied that the idea had technological merit, encouraging Northrop that his flying wing concepts had not been completely abandoned. By the late 1970s a variety of illnesses left him unable to walk or speak. Shortly before his death, he was given clearance to see designs and hold a scale model of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, which shared design features of his YB-35 and YB-49.[13] The B-2, for example, has the same 172-foot wingspan as the jet-powered flying wing, YB-49.[14] Northrop reportedly wrote on a sheet of paper "Now I know why God has kept me alive for 25 years".[14] B-2 project designer John Cashen said, "As he held this model in his shaking hands, it was as if you could see his entire history with the flying wing passing through his mind."[15] He died 10 months later."
Jack Northrop
"Later years
He broke a decades-long silence on the Flying Wing's demise in a 1979 television interview,[11] accusing the Air Force of killing the project to punish him for refusing to merge his company with Consolidated Vultee. He alleged that Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington threatened him by saying, "You’ll be goddamned sorry if you don’t."[8] Symington called the charge "preposterous and absurd" and told a researcher[12] "There was a tremendous overcapacity in the industry following World War II". He said Northrop came to him, seeking more business to help his struggling company. Symington said, "I may very well have suggested that he merge his company with Convair, who we knew was going to get business."[8] Aviation expert Bud Baker, who studied declassified documents and public records and conducted personal interviews with Symington, Air Force generals and Northrop's chairman, concluded the cancellation "was a sound decision, based on budgetary, technical, and strategic realities."[12]
Northrop dabbled in real estate and lost much of his personal fortune. In 1976, with his health failing, he felt compelled to communicate to NASA his belief in the low drag high lift concept inherent in the flying wing. NASA replied that the idea had technological merit, encouraging Northrop that his flying wing concepts had not been completely abandoned. By the late 1970s a variety of illnesses left him unable to walk or speak. Shortly before his death, he was given clearance to see designs and hold a scale model of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, which shared design features of his YB-35 and YB-49.[13] The B-2, for example, has the same 172-foot wingspan as the jet-powered flying wing, YB-49.[14] Northrop reportedly wrote on a sheet of paper "Now I know why God has kept me alive for 25 years".[14] B-2 project designer John Cashen said, "As he held this model in his shaking hands, it was as if you could see his entire history with the flying wing passing through his mind."[15] He died 10 months later."
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Rod B
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They do far better driving camels.
Dark Alley Dan
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Cockpit layout of YB-35 flying wing
That gives me the willies. I imagine the "emergency egress procedure manual" was 28 pages long and replete with illustrations.
"Step 3411(b): In the event the pilot sights open flames in the cockpit, he will alert the copilot by saying 'How's that emergency hatch coming along' and offering helpful tips and encouragement..."
Why are they putting the Staff Sergeant rank on the horse's ###(rear, posterior....etc)?
They're actually putting it on her uniform(blanket) because it's her honorary rank, given for extreme service
There are very few Saudis risking their lives in their army. The regular army is mostly Pakistanis. The other Saudi army, the National Guard is mostly Saudi but they confine their operations to oppressing their own.
Dark Alley Dan
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This plump-looking old gal is the Curtiss XF14C-2, a turbocharged carrier-borne high altitude interceptor.
By the time they built it, the problem they were looking to solve had evaporated.
And so she went nowhere.
By the time they built it, the problem they were looking to solve had evaporated.
And so she went nowhere.
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The flying wing cockpit shown in post #18284 is actually the co-pilot's seat, the pilot's seat is just visible to the left..
The pilot's seat and cockpit is in the bubble on the top of the wing above and to the left of the co-pilot's seat.
The reference is;
Jack Northrop and the Flying Wing; The Story Behind the Stealth Bomber by Coleman, Ted
Picture of where the seats of the pilot and co-pilot are located;.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/jhtm....org/wmd/systems/images/xb-35-earlyfrt.jpg|||
The pilot seated in the plexiglass bubble to the left of the aircraft centreline. The co-pilot was to the right of and below the pilot, behind a large window in the leading edge of the wing. An engineer's station was also in the forward part of the crew nacelle, as were stations for the radio operator, navigator, bombardier, and gunners. The mid-section of the crew nacelle had sleeping facilities for a relief crew of six people, a requirement for operational missions of 10,000 miles where crew fatigue would be a primary consideration. The after section contained the gunner's station. The seven-foot headroom in the crew's quarters was certainly adequate, and the accommodations were the first of such extent and complexity to have been incorporated into such a radical design.
From; http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation history/flying wings/Northrop bombers.htm
The pilot's seat and cockpit is in the bubble on the top of the wing above and to the left of the co-pilot's seat.
The reference is;
Jack Northrop and the Flying Wing; The Story Behind the Stealth Bomber by Coleman, Ted
Picture of where the seats of the pilot and co-pilot are located;.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/jhtm....org/wmd/systems/images/xb-35-earlyfrt.jpg|||
The pilot seated in the plexiglass bubble to the left of the aircraft centreline. The co-pilot was to the right of and below the pilot, behind a large window in the leading edge of the wing. An engineer's station was also in the forward part of the crew nacelle, as were stations for the radio operator, navigator, bombardier, and gunners. The mid-section of the crew nacelle had sleeping facilities for a relief crew of six people, a requirement for operational missions of 10,000 miles where crew fatigue would be a primary consideration. The after section contained the gunner's station. The seven-foot headroom in the crew's quarters was certainly adequate, and the accommodations were the first of such extent and complexity to have been incorporated into such a radical design.
From; http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation history/flying wings/Northrop bombers.htm
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I'm sure Mentour has a Youtube video for that these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePDl1JNqjpM
Grizz
Dark Alley Dan
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That is a big ol' ass on that bird. Must have had some kinda serious yaw issues to throw that much fin and rudder at it.
You mean like the "Sky Raider"? It too had a massive rudder.
