Fixed Wing Bomber

Added on January 19th, 2008 by superseth83 | Report Post
Tags:Military, WTF

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Acriticalgent (#1668)

16 years ago

wait, when was it broken?

Hepathos (#719)

16 years ago

You guys are crazy. That’s clearly an UFO.

RSIxidor (#950)

16 years ago

That reminds of this. there was at least one person that said he saw fighter jets following it as well.

RSIxidor (#950)

16 years ago

Also, MyConfinedSpace is already the top page on Google for ‘fixed wing bomber’ what the fuck?

lumps937 (#2105)

16 years ago

All bombers are “fixed-wing bombers,” unless you’re talking about a helicopter. This plane is more properly referred to as a “flying wing.” In fact, it’s a Northrup YB-49, a revision to Jack Northrup’s original flying wing bomber design, the YB-35. It’s a direct forerunner of the B-2 Spirit bomber.

Phyreblade (#1414)

16 years ago

True. As opposed to rotary wing…

blackdog33 (#17955)

14 years ago

Northrup got the contract for the YB-49 to be Air Force’s #1 bomber. Then they reniged because of pressure from Texas politicians and where told they could not have the contract unless they merged with Chance-Vought of Ft. Worth. John Northrup refused. He knew Chance-Vought was a scum-bag plane maker. The U.S. bought ALL the B-49s, blew them up and burned the blueprints. There is not even one in the Smithsonian. The Air Force bought the B-36 from Chance-Vought. And the taxpayers paid for a flying piece of shit.