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Old 25th July 2011, 12:54
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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend

Why the B-36 would be a "disaster"? AFAIK technically a very good design with nice handling.
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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend

Yes Jukka, it would have been a technological marvel but it was designed and built with all those billions of dollars as a war plane and when the war came [Korea] it couldn't go because the enemy had jet fighters as it was already obsolete.
See the post, B-36 Six turnin' and four burnin'
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Old 30th July 2011, 12:18
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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend

Even allowing that, disaster is a far too strong a word to describe the B-36.
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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend

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I hate to sound like a conspiracy theory guy, but the real reason for the Northrop flying wings not proceeding may lie in the procurement methods of the US, and the advantage that gave at the time to "well established" companies like Convair and Boeing.
I understood that it had stability problems that nowadays can be handled by computers and fly-by-wire but weren't soluble then.
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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend

Here is an interesting video clip from 1943 showing the take off of a B-35 during testing.
It shows much more ability to get airborne than the following B-36. When I watched that B-36 video clip in my other post 'Six turnin' and four burnin', it reminded me of the Spruce Goose film clip.
That wing area obviously gave a lot of lift.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYno...eature=related
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