Though the
B-2 Spirit is perhaps the best-known of the
flying wing designs, its creation came almost 50 years after the earliest attempts at creating fixed-wing aircraft with no definite fuselage. The first prototypes of Frenchman
Charles Fauvel's flying wings followed the patent on his formula for the flying wing in 1929. Jack Northrop's newly formed Northrop Aircraft Co. created the first flying wing for the United States in 1940, dubbed
Northrom N-1M "Jeep". But it was the
Horten Brothers, German aircraft pilots and enthusiasts, who created the first fully-functional stealth flying wing: the
Horten Ho IX.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 24, 2009 -
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The F117A Swan Song, the Fall of the Belgrade Embassy...and China Rising China Matters blog offers a fascinating take on "the role that the Belgrade bombing seems to play as the creation myth of the birth of the 21st Chinese strategic military doctrine, founded on the assumption that the U.S. will unscrupulously use its military, diplomatic, and propaganda advantages not only to contain China but even to attack it when need, desire, and circumstances permit."
posted by Abiezer
on Apr 29, 2008 -
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