The flying wing design is niche and rare today, but the concept has been the focus of study for 100 years. ... Various companies, including Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Armstrong Whitworth, ...

The flying wing design is niche and rare today, but the concept has been the focus of study for 100 years. ... Various companies, including Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Armstrong Whitworth, ...

But the retirement of the Lynch STOL 26s from forest work was not the end of N4818E's flying career. In 2001, it was listed by the company Southern Cross Aviation Inc, of Wilmington, DE, and was ...

NASA and McDonnell Douglas revisited the concept in the 1990s, ... The company’s experience with similar flying wing designs (from the 1940s N-9M and YB-49 to the more recent B-2 and B-21) ...

Labor issues led to the end of the Douglas relationship in 1937, ... The company’s first flying wing design, designated the N-1, was also the first company-financed research project.

This is where Long Beach startup JetZero Inc. is Flying wing sparks Air Force, airline interest. 61.5 F. Los ... But McDonnell Douglas and then Boeing declined to invest the capital necessary to ...

When approached to develop a fast bomber, Douglas responded with the Douglas XB-42 “Mixmaster,” a decidedly unconventional, piston-powered design promised to achieve nearly 500 mph. Jason McDowell ...

The blended wing shape lends itself so well to the latter that last year the US Air Force awarded JetZero $235 million to develop a full-scale demonstrator and validate the performance of the ...