This is a poll intended to gauge what your favorite giant airplane project of the pre-1945 period is. The ANT-26 is often seen as the largest Soviet warplane project of the pre-1945 era, but the Germans in WW1 envisaged a monster bomber with a 479 foot span and we now know that Consolidated and...
Does anyone have drawings or specs of the Boeing Model 404 flying wing bomber? I just wanted to ask because I saw the designation in the Boeing model numbers list and the Model 404 had the same number of engines as the XB-35 and Consolidated Flying wing design.
Check out this article at RetroMechanix.com on the General Airborne Transport XCG-16, an American flying wing type combat glider with twin booms and a single rudder dating from 1944:
The article reproduces an Army Air Force preliminary evaluation report on the type, which features 21 high...
Greetings Chaps:
I saw artwork on fly-wings, so here is a fly-wing montage I located that is roughtly 70 or so years old on the Northrop XB-35 Bomber Project.
I had to enlarge slightly, cut n' paste and make up this simplistic display. I don't have tools to clean it up so take it as it is ok...
Hi folks,
Here are some Boeing Flying Wing concepts from the mid 1930s. They are all variations of the same theme and come under the Model 306 designation:
First the Heavy Bomber:
Regards,
Greg
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