Research and data obtained during the testing of these and other experimental aircraft would lead to today’s B-2 Spirit bomber and beyond. American concerns that Great Britain might fall to Axis ...

The B2 Spirit looks nothing like a conventional aircraft. Rather than wings attached to a fuselage, the B2 is a single flying wing. While most people associate it with stealth, the flying wing design ...

Nobody thinks that the present design of planes is definitive. One who has revolutionary ideas about the next step is brainy, energetic John Knudsen Northrop. He thinks the tail ought to come off: he ...

Early aviation engineers appreciated the potential for a “flying wing” design. A flying wing, which minimizes fuselage and usually eliminates the tail, reduces many of the aerodynamic compromises ...

In the February 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics, Lockheed engineer Hall Hibbard laid out a vision for a future aircraft that was the shape of giant wing, providing "evidence that the flying wing is ...