Aerial view of US Air Force’s 100-ton Northrop Flying Wing YB-49 jet bomber in fligh over Hawthorne, California, 1948 [2100×1685]

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zonk3

(Yet another view of this craft.)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelryerson/28568769767/in/faves-26209464@N00/

https://youtu.be/kuIFvNA1UgU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-49
fordnut

Hawthorne, CA is now Northrop’s HQ. Those orchards would eventually be developed into the office buildings that housed the engineers who designed the B-2, building off the work of the YB-49.

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