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@@sirrianusdagovax hiding the fact that they've been compromised until a white hat hacker group exposes them doesn't need to be explained to me. It's plain for everyone to see. We have been informed of their issues by third parties, they are not transparent with their customers. You cannot excuse their cover up.
A big problem that was found the YB-49 is that when stalled it would tumble end over end and the way that was discovered to get out of this was to cut the engines on one side to induce a flat spin and they get into normal flight from there. This happened once and after that "plane is never to be stalled under any circumstances" was added to the manual. Purportedly this issue was solved in the B2 by having the fly by wire computer not allow the pilot to stall the plane.
TV shows tend to be big disappointments compared to the top youtube channels like this. They're almost always unnecessarily dramatised, the flow of the story cut into pieces, it's awful to watch. RUclips may have a lot of dumb stuff, but the good stuff is *really* good.
mrnoobster The pitch is full of misleading or outright false claims as well...a VPN has zero effect on the probability that your passwords are going to be stolen. Unless you’re using an insecure site AND there’s an attacker that specifically wants *your* password, not just anybody’s password, AND that person has special access to your internet connection. But of course, it’s using the unsecured site that puts you at greatest risk, and the VPN is just the weakest “security by obscurity“ in comparison, and may expose you to more man-in-the-middle attacks, because of the diverse exit points it uses on different days to route your traffic.
Howdy I work in the cyber security field. Specifically doing bug bounties. Vpns are useful in 3 situations. 1. If you are in a coffee shop or on public wifi. Ssl stripping is possible and there is an entire toolkit dedicated to doing mitms. 2. If you run a very secure network and want the only way to connect to that network is via a VPN that gets you onto the internal network or at least a login on the internal. Although it would have be setup using something other than nordvpn it would need to be something like ovpn on a vps on the server. 3. Hiding internet traffic from your isp so you can torrent without getting fines as well as bypass region locks.
you also could use the the Tor browser with a bridge for certain cases. Also one can be quite certain that NordVPN and other providers sell your data like your internet provider does.
@@n111254789 How effective are VPN's at hiding your traffic from your own ISP? Surely any ISP worth their salt can check your network regardless of a VPN?
@@manstonhisk667 They cannot. They see a request go from you to your VPN and it is encrypted then you get a page returned but it appears to come from your VPN. There is nothing they can do about it. If they suspect something they have to contact law enforcement get a subpoena issue (if there is good cause) the government will subpoena your VPN provider and they will have logs of what you did. Regardless if they say they keep logs or not they will have logs of what you did unless they are from a non five eyes country. Hiding from your isp they work though. It's why people in China setup their own on a vps using openvpn and then can access other stuff. Same with torrenting and getting country specfic content here in the USA.
You missed the best part... when Northrop found out that they were going to build the top-secret B-2 bomber, they acquired permission to let a very old Jack Northrop know that the flying wing was going to become a true reality, of course, he was very pleased, and I believe he died not long after that.
@a My dad was a Sergeant in the Andersen air force base military police force at the time and our family was just coming back from the beach after we went past the front gate where they check your military IDs. What kind of a sad person are you? I come in here and share a one in a million experience I had and you just come here and doubt it for no reason.
@@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 Idiots like that will always doubt other people's stories. They haven't made it further than their mother's basement so they don't understand that other people have this amazing experience called 'Life' I honestly feel sorry for them as they're just middle aged virgins with no friends.
@@hannesgroesslinger BULLSHIT !!!!!! The Nazis never had a full size flying model and the V2 model crashed on its second flight and killed the pilot !!!! Jack Northrop was years ahead of the nazis !!!
Jack Northrop was one of the only civilians to see the first B-2 prototype. It’s ironic but also fitting in that his baby (and his math, including the same exact wingspan of his YB-35/49) was the same exact day confirmed to be nearly perfect, and used in the B-2. I really wish I could have been there when they wheeled him into that hangar and they saw his life’s ambitions become a reality. Apparently those close to him said that after that moment, he was at peace with his life and traveled to the other side with no regrets.
When I was in high school I was a volunteer at the Plane's of Fame air museum. They had an original N9MB flying wing and was the last of the original flying wings from the 40s still flying. I was honored to have the chance to help work on it. It crashed earlier this year killing the pilot David Vopat. Very sad to see a piece of aviation history be destroyed and a good pilot die. RIP David.
Also, don't forget, another nail in the coffin of the YB-49 was the fact that when it began as the XB-35 it was supposed to be a heavy, long range bomber in direct competition with Convair's B-36. When the contra-rotating propellers worked it had adequate power and showed to have excellent range. The switch to single props reduced power so that it couldn't really compete on any level so they went to jets. With jets it had adequate power but the early turbojets were so thirsty that the range was reduced considerably. This put it square into the medium bomber class, which let it compete with the B-47, which it couldn't do. The '47 was a medium from the word go, the Wing was a heavy that was knocked down to a medium, and it just didn't work.
One of my favorite air show memories is watching the small yellow flying wing in the skies around Chino, CA. It's a shame that the planes and its pilot were lost in a crash.
This is fascinating, and Curious Droid consistently has that effect on topics I had no interest or particular knowledge of. It also inspired me to read a bit about Jack Northrup, who I had no idea was such an intriguing inventor/innovator/entrepreneur, and how striking was his personal torment from the rejection by the corrupt or inept or what-have-you bureaucrats in the military and federal government. I wonder if they could make a movie, "Northrup".
Years ago I had a book of paper (thin card) aeroplanes to cut out and make. It included a flying wing glider which flew very well. The wing tips were bent up vertically, does that disqualify it? Maybe you could tell me: when he refers to vertical stabilisation is that provided by the horizontal surface or the vertical one in a conventional plane? I'm wondering about winglets, you see. Aeromodelers are often near the cutting edge! I recommend a RUclips search for "18 wing ornithopter". The most astonishing flying thing I've seen!
@@raykent3211 my RC wing the E-flite opterra 2 meter wing sounds much like what you describing Have some videos on my channel It have the tips bend up to and two small vertical tips at the fuselage One of my best flying and gliding RC planes About disqualified as an wing because of the vertical tips 🤔 Actually a good question my friend
If I may: The Horten 229 was not for the 1000x1000x1000 requirement, I think that was the Horten XVIII project, which was a massively upscaled version. The 229 was initially a study to test the viability of the 18 if I remember correctly, but it was so good it was ordered into production as a fighter
From what I've always understood , that design is very difficult to control for whatever reason. And modern avionics making adjustments by the microsecond is the reason they were able to overcome that design issue.
I lived in Pasadena, CA, in the 90s. I had a condo, just a block off the Rose Parade route. One New Years, a B2 preceded the parade, at low altitude. That was a eerie sight !
Little correction: The N1M was a single engine model to prove that the tailless wing concept would work. The twin engine single pilot plane is the N9M. It was built during the development of the YB-35 to test engine out characteristics. The locations of the two engines on the N9M were such that with one out of the N9M, it would act like a YB-35 with two engines out on one wing. A single N9M is all that survives from the YB-35/49 project. There were a few other concepts for a flying wing fighter with a prone flying position and a chin rest for the pilot during high G maneuvers. It was later adapted to have jet engines, and test pilots were able to pull 12G maneuvers in them without blacking out. Those projects were also canceled when Northrop refused to merge with Convair, although they were not without their crashes. Of note, Jack Northrop designed the wing of the DC-2, the precursor to the most successful airplane ever built. The sturdy structure of the DC-3's wing is thanks to Jack Northrop, and his ideas he had in the early 30s designing his first flying wing.
This aircraft was a useful prop for 1960's sci-fi movies. I recall seeing on TV old movies where the threat of giant insects, toads or whatnot (as well as some hapless space aliens) was countered--after all the usual armaments failed--with the command "Send in the Flying Wing". Stock footage would show the futuristic and presumably super-powerful machine on its way to save the day. I wish I could remember the titles of those movies.
General "I want the Guam pilots salaries garnished for the B2 crash!" Advisor "their military salaries will never cover it" General "then give them a 550m dollar Yr raise and garnish that!"
The flying wing was definitely "stealthy" for the era. My father was a radar operator on a B-50 training in Tuscon around '48-'49 and said he tracked a plane on their radar, but it was too small to be the tanker they were supposed to find. After some radio calls to avoid the planes colliding, the other plane turned and dad's radar screen lit up with a bigger signature. He looked out the observation blister and could see the Flying Wing turning away. Once it went wings-level, it was like trying to see a pencil line in the sky. Re: The proposed Convair-Northrop "merger"... Dad was in aerospace after his service (he worked at Convair then moved to Lockheed) and worked with some ex-Northrop guys from that time. They said Northrop was given more or less and ultimatum not only by Symington and Convair's President, but also a certain Texas Senator who they said tried to squeeze Northrop by his gonads. He told Northrop he'd never get another military contract unless he caved in. That Texas Senator was Lyndon Johnson -- and Convair was based in Ft. Worth at the time. So we've always had the best congressmen that money can buy!
The big problem that aircraft have with flying wing designs as opposed to birds, especially going back to earlier days before fly-by-wire, was that while an aircraft's wing is mostly solid, with a limited range of motions and variability, a bird's wing and tail feathers are in contrast extremely dexterous, kind of like how a spider can easily run short distances with it's eight tiny legs. The fact that computerisation has come a long way does make a huge difference, but the other half of the problem remains. It would be interesting to see an aircraft design that used something like the many individual feathers of a bird to produce many highly variable control surfaces.
Remember that , its scene like indi at Egypt and shot his enemy with the tail machine. Gun ruclips.net/video/X-WgGjJ_On8/видео.html here American vs banzai charge at ww2
I love your channel, your content is always very interesting, well researched, and put together nicely. Additionally whenever I can't fall asleep, I put on a couple hr playlist of Curious Droid's content... His soothing voice and relaxing background music always puts me right to sleep when I'm tired but can't seem to fall asleep... Do not take that as me implying that you are boring, as when I'm up and going during the day I can watch your videos for hrs... Keep up the great work..
Some trivia: Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a Late Cretaceous pterosaur the height of a giraffe, and with a wingspan the size of a Cessna 172, was named after Jack Northrop.
I think it should be pointed out that most stealth technology does not arise from paint, or cross section, but does from electronics and wire meshes built into the wing.
@@puirYorick You're talking to the world, here. Spain in particular. Couldn't give a damn so long as he does his job keeping the US from going to shit. And shit is always one step away with that Ponzi scheme that ALL of us are in. No time for dallying with politics, this.
@@armr6937 Yea, I love how everyone blames (any current president) for the conditions of the country (good or bad) now, when the problems, politics, profit and potential of the country goes back well over 150 years.
@@armr6937 I appear to have found myself communicating with an alternate reality. You think he's doing his job so we clearly don't exist in the same cosmos. 👽👽👽
I love your videos. The topics of your content are fabulous and the first thing I do when I open RUclips is checking your channel for new videos. There’s no better way of falling asleep listening to your calm voice talking about interesting stuff. I’m looking forward to more aviation related videos.
As a side note. When I was in school/university (1970's), I had an instructor, who was on the flight test team for the original flying wings (1940's-1950's). He stated that they had a flight from, roughly LA, Calif. to San Francisco, Calif. During this test they were unable to track the flying wing on "Radar." So, maybe, time was waiting for computer controlled flight? Thanks
My first encounter with a Flying wing was in the 1953 movie War of the Worlds, as a child I was stunned by how different it was to other aircraft and have had an interest in them ever since.
I was living in Los Angeles when I was very young playing in the back yard and I heard this loud roar in the sky! When I looked up I saw the Flying Wing! I watched it until it was out of sight. This was around 1955. I still remember it very clearly. I think that it was built at Northrup in Inglewood in So. Cal
Muroc Air Force Base (originally Army Air Force Base) was renamed Edwards AFB in honor of Glen Edwards, who died piloting the YB-49 flying wing in 1948. Edwards was the primary base used for testing US aircraft from the 40's on, and where (among many others) the X-1 broke the sound barrier, and the X-15 was flown.
Shortly before Jack Northrup passed away, he was shown drawings and a model of the B-2 that was about to go into production. From Wikipedia: "Northrop reportedly wrote on a sheet of paper "Now I know why God has kept me alive for 25 years". B-2 project designer John Cashen said, "As he held this model in his shaking hands, it was as if you could see his entire history with the flying wing passing through his mind." He died 10 months later."
@@otm646 I use a VPN in order to hide from the French government (for torrents) and to access Amazon prime USA from France. In both cases it works very well. That's it.
it wasn't a hack.. it's was a compromised sever via a third party setup and it was 1 server out of 50+ in reality it can (and has happened) to any vpn out there. if anything they are probably the safest they have ever been as they did a audit of their systems to gain customer confidence back.
Arguably the most rewarding, easiest foam board Flite Test plane to build and fly (and crash and throwing back in the air) is the Arrow which is a small wing. If you’re into RC and can get dollar store foam board you should give it a try.
The downside of the 'flying wing' is that the wing is larger than required for the necessary lift it needs to generate. As everyone knows, the part most responsible for drag is not a fuselage, but the wing. Making a wing larger (read: with more frontal area) than necessary to do its job, only to provide volume to contain goods, results in more drag than created by a small wing and a fuselage. For this reason alone, Boeing opted already in an early stage to make the B-29 wing as small and narrow as possible, and house the engines in separate nacelles as opposed to containing them entirely within a large, thick wing. As an aside, Curious Droid remarks that the Northrop YB49's thickness of its wing reduced its speed considerably. And the YB49 was only a bomber, designed to carry a high density, low volume payload as opposed to passenger transports.
Birds constantly change their shape of wings and tails to fly without a vertical stabilizer. Birds are the true masters of flying with an R&D advantage of millions of years. they also endure upto 10 - 14Gs everyday.
The Germans (Lippisch and the Hortens) used different technology to Norton. Norton gave his wings sweep back, about 4 degrees of negative washout thus effectively having a tail pushing down at the wing tips. Stats were added to handle span wise flow and premature tip stall. The Germans also used this technique but they also made use of “auto stable airfoils”. these literally can create a flying plank that needs no sweep. The Me 163 used sweep and an auto stable airfoil as well as slots. The Horton Ho 229 used sweep and a small amount of washout but the bat like tail had reflex and was auto stable. Probably more effective than Norton’s. Note twin tails on B2. Jets like the Me 262 and Meteor sll jets suffer from high speed snaking and this was not cured till yaw dampers were added to deflect the rudder up to 5%. They consist of rate gyro acting on a servo mechanically connected to the rudder or a small separate rudder.. Aircraft like the SR71 had dampers on all three axis yaw, pitch and roll. That’s exactly what the YB49 needed. Note the gyroscopic effect of propellors tends to stabilise.
I remember seeing the Flying Wing in the skies over San Diego in the mid to late 60's. It was beautiful to see! From a distance it looked like a graceful bird. A very loud bird.
Shortly before his death, he (Jack Northrop) was given clearance to see designs and hold a scale model of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, which shared design features of his YB-35 and YB-49. The B-2, for example, has the same 172-foot wingspan as the jet-powered flying wing, YB-49. Northrop reportedly wrote on a sheet of paper "Now I know why God has kept me alive for 25 years". From Wikipedia
Not sure if you're being snarky or if you're one of the people who hasn't gotten the concept that you can pre-release videos privately. It only shows the public posting date.
One thing about flying wings I don't know is accurate, but I notice in games, is that the lift generated by a flying wing is very consistent, regardless of speed. A traditional plane will try to pitch up at high speed and drop the nose at low speeds, it would seem flying wings suffer much less from this effect. But I'm sure someone smarter than I can confirm/sink that idea.
Curiously enough the Dunne D.8 biplane flying wing that you mention in the film was so incredibly stable that one pilot demonstrated this by allowing the aircraft to fly itself while he climbed out on to the wing.
I think the birds comparison is a bit off, because planes have fixed wings, and birds don't. They move, retract, extend, they can actively stabilize and shift their weight, whereas with planes, all of that is a lot more difficult. It's much like us trying to made bipedal robots: a two-year old can walk upright, so how hard can it be for a robot? Well as it turns out, very, because the amount of sensory input, computing power, and active stabilization it takes to just stand upright, let alone walking or running, is enormous.
I can't believe you didn't mention the B-21, or that Jack Northrop was allowed to see the then-classified B-2 designs before his death. Imagine how triumphant that must have felt.
Suggesting people use NordVPN to improve their security is a bit like suggesting people eat at McDonalds if they want to lose weight. Not only did NordVPN get breached fairly recently, it took them a while to even notice, they didn't disclose it until over a year later and that disclosure was woefully inadequate in terms of the information it contained.
Great video. You should have included the B-21 Raider which is presently in the assembly phase! Also, the recent crash of the only flyable Northrop N9M, piloted by a great guy I used to fly with.
I'm glad you included the recent work at Dryden. Anyone who wants to hear more about it can look for Albion (or Al) Bowers NASA in RUclips for some of his talks.
Lifting bodies and blended bodies are similar to the flying wing and are commonly used in fighter aircraft(especially russian ones) to increase lift along with wings while having very little drag.
You didnt mention one big point about the flying wing; in an event of stall/spin, they are the safest design out there. The story is that yu can point the nose up, pull back the throttle, and the plane will settle into a stable fall, comparable to the speeds of a parachute going down. The reason why it never made it as an airline design is that the person who owned the patents on this design (cant remember his name) wanted his pound of flesh, but Boeing/Douglas wouldn't comply, hence it never happened.
I'm pretty sure that "Nord VPN hack" was actually some hackers getting a list of peoples emails and passwords from a 3rd party site and then trying them on Nord, that's actually a very common way hackers get info
@@JoeRadiation it's a common technique Most people don't switch up their passwords and use the same ones across multiple sites, all it takes is a 3rd party website to be compromised and then hackers will just try and use those on other sites, change up your passwords or else it's your fault
Is it possible that birds have vertical geometry to their wings and tails that is difficult to notice? They do tend to curve up and down in arch shapes. Maybe that's important for stable flight. It's merely an observation.
The most aerodynamic plane would be one with no wings or controls surfaces at all. Short story, low drag is great but the best control surfaces use drag to operate.
I guess Boeing did not use "lessons learned" from the aviation industry about its single-point sensor failure mode that produced similar take-off crashes with two B737 Max's and it's MCAS system that Northrup B2's experienced in 2008 when a sensor failed to send correct data to the computer (time stamp 9:44) forcing the aircraft to pitch-up and lose lift.
The obvious reason birds don't need vertical stabilizers is because they wist their bodies to overcome unstabilizing lateral forces. That twisting bends their wings. All flying wing designs up to this point aren't using any twisting. They are using split elevons. Hey, you build a mechanical bird all our vertical takeoff and landing problems will go away as well.
Although I don't think there is any definitive official name, I think the Horten wing should be Ho 9. Gotha was given the manufacturing contract and they received the number 229 from the RLM. So the prototype that was captured and eventually ended up at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum is Ho 9 V3. If it made it to production, it would have been called Go 229. That NASA remote control wing looks an awful lot like some of the Horten gliders from the 1930s.
@@1993Crag Horten wings are *very* different, although there is parallel evolution with the two design schools. Early Horten designs were gliders. I think the Northrop ones were always powered. The NASA wings from this video have quite a narrow chord, compared to Northrop wings. www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/Horten-HoIV/IMAGES/All-three-Horten-Flying-wing-gliders.jpg Coincidentally, the B-2 Spirit has the same dimensions as the YB-35/XB-49.
I wonder if we will ever see transport planes (not sure if passenger due to lack of windows) but I am guessing these planes would be massive and make the problems caused by the Airbus 380's size look minor.
I know this channel deals in absolutes so forgive me for for now speaking in hearsay, so the NASA Delta wing is the Mars flyer currently being test in the Antarctic ( nearest to a Mars environment) I have a colleague there who is a marine biologist using the same environment as a model for finding biology on Mars. Then how about the possibility of the flying triangle? What would be your view on that subject?
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With all due respect, have you been living under a rock for the past two months?
Nord is an unreliable and unsafe VPN provider.
You do know they got hacked, right?
@@Y.M... Seems you are the one under a rock: you haven't watched one of the previous videos where CD explains NordVPN's issues...
How well can these flying wing aircraft perform at mach flight?
@@sirrianusdagovax hiding the fact that they've been compromised until a white hat hacker group exposes them doesn't need to be explained to me. It's plain for everyone to see. We have been informed of their issues by third parties, they are not transparent with their customers. You cannot excuse their cover up.
If its shaped like a boomerang, loses control and goes into a spin, at least the aircraft should return back home again.
Somebody better catch it
Lol, don't be silly lad.😁
Brilliant observation lol
Nice one
A big problem that was found the YB-49 is that when stalled it would tumble end over end and the way that was discovered to get out of this was to cut the engines on one side to induce a flat spin and they get into normal flight from there. This happened once and after that "plane is never to be stalled under any circumstances" was added to the manual. Purportedly this issue was solved in the B2 by having the fly by wire computer not allow the pilot to stall the plane.
The flying wing is alive and well in the R/C community. They are cheap, easy to setup and can do almost anything!
Yeah :) I started out with a quadcopter but now I mainly fly wing. It just feels the best to fly. I really don't know about sitting in one tho :)
I've seen Horizon I think with a flying wing with a FPV built in. Not the racer type but more of a generic and I want it so bad
Not a pointless design after all, seems to one way or another made a lot of ppl happy
Curious droid is the most underrated channel! This man deserves his own tv show!
TV shows tend to be big disappointments compared to the top youtube channels like this. They're almost always unnecessarily dramatised, the flow of the story cut into pieces, it's awful to watch. RUclips may have a lot of dumb stuff, but the good stuff is *really* good.
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Yes, being on TV would not be an improvement.
TV is dead
He has something better... This man has own TV *channel* . An entire channel dedicated to his work.
I agree with you all, I don’t watch tv. What I meant was he deserves the cultural ubiquity and big, fat paycheck that comes with a high budget show.
It went to the Ace Combat universe
Yup, Arsenal Bird.
Damn Belkans!
Its purpose is strictly for defence
I dropped Nord VPN when they literally tried to hide the fact they had their servers compromised. Good video. Bad VPN advertising.
mrnoobster The pitch is full of misleading or outright false claims as well...a VPN has zero effect on the probability that your passwords are going to be stolen. Unless you’re using an insecure site AND there’s an attacker that specifically wants *your* password, not just anybody’s password, AND that person has special access to your internet connection. But of course, it’s using the unsecured site that puts you at greatest risk, and the VPN is just the weakest “security by obscurity“ in comparison, and may expose you to more man-in-the-middle attacks, because of the diverse exit points it uses on different days to route your traffic.
Howdy I work in the cyber security field. Specifically doing bug bounties. Vpns are useful in 3 situations.
1. If you are in a coffee shop or on public wifi. Ssl stripping is possible and there is an entire toolkit dedicated to doing mitms.
2. If you run a very secure network and want the only way to connect to that network is via a VPN that gets you onto the internal network or at least a login on the internal. Although it would have be setup using something other than nordvpn it would need to be something like ovpn on a vps on the server.
3. Hiding internet traffic from your isp so you can torrent without getting fines as well as bypass region locks.
you also could use the the Tor browser with a bridge for certain cases. Also one can be quite certain that NordVPN and other providers sell your data like your internet provider does.
@@n111254789 How effective are VPN's at hiding your traffic from your own ISP? Surely any ISP worth their salt can check your network regardless of a VPN?
@@manstonhisk667 They cannot. They see a request go from you to your VPN and it is encrypted then you get a page returned but it appears to come from your VPN. There is nothing they can do about it.
If they suspect something they have to contact law enforcement get a subpoena issue (if there is good cause) the government will subpoena your VPN provider and they will have logs of what you did. Regardless if they say they keep logs or not they will have logs of what you did unless they are from a non five eyes country.
Hiding from your isp they work though. It's why people in China setup their own on a vps using openvpn and then can access other stuff. Same with torrenting and getting country specfic content here in the USA.
You missed the best part... when Northrop found out that they were going to build the top-secret B-2 bomber, they acquired permission to let a very old Jack Northrop know that the flying wing was going to become a true reality, of course, he was very pleased, and I believe he died not long after that.
Scott : Shock at being totally ripped ¿?
Northrop: "this is nice"
Northrop: **dies**
His life was complete at that point.
TBH....45% of the time im only clicking to see the shirt!!....This one didnt disappoint!
I know, right? Guitar picks.
You're not alone.. LOL
HaHaHa! Thankyou, I hadn't thought of that.
I was living on Guam when the B2 crashed. I didn’t know what caused it at the time but that thing really shook the ground like an earthquake.
Some condensation in vital electronics was the cause of the b2 crash.
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No, B-2.
@a My dad was a Sergeant in the Andersen air force base military police force at the time and our family was just coming back from the beach after we went past the front gate where they check your military IDs. What kind of a sad person are you? I come in here and share a one in a million experience I had and you just come here and doubt it for no reason.
@@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 Idiots like that will always doubt other people's stories. They haven't made it further than their mother's basement so they don't understand that other people have this amazing experience called 'Life'
I honestly feel sorry for them as they're just middle aged virgins with no friends.
I miss when Paul would announce the kind of shirt he was wearing.
I love this channel. Keep up the good work, Paul!
You and me both.
I think you're just being picky there!
@@MrWombatty I see what you did there. 🎸
definetly that shirt was the right pick.
It’s amazing how far ahead of his time Jack Northrop was!!!
Indeed. After all, he was only about 10 years behind the Horten brothers!
@@hannesgroesslinger ^^
Pfft! Ancient Greeks conceived the atom.
@@hannesgroesslinger BULLSHIT !!!!!! The Nazis never had a full size flying model and the V2 model crashed on its second flight and killed the pilot !!!! Jack Northrop was years ahead of the nazis !!!
@@hannesgroesslinger Yeah, except for the little insignificant fact that his model actually worked and was much better.
Jack Northrop was one of the only civilians to see the first B-2 prototype. It’s ironic but also fitting in that his baby (and his math, including the same exact wingspan of his YB-35/49) was the same exact day confirmed to be nearly perfect, and used in the B-2.
I really wish I could have been there when they wheeled him into that hangar and they saw his life’s ambitions become a reality. Apparently those close to him said that after that moment, he was at peace with his life and traveled to the other side with no regrets.
When I was in high school I was a volunteer at the Plane's of Fame air museum. They had an original N9MB flying wing and was the last of the original flying wings from the 40s still flying. I was honored to have the chance to help work on it. It crashed earlier this year killing the pilot David Vopat. Very sad to see a piece of aviation history be destroyed and a good pilot die. RIP David.
the good old arsenal bird
The thumbnail was the exact poster I had on my wall as a kid
Also, don't forget, another nail in the coffin of the YB-49 was the fact that when it began as the XB-35 it was supposed to be a heavy, long range bomber in direct competition with Convair's B-36. When the contra-rotating propellers worked it had adequate power and showed to have excellent range. The switch to single props reduced power so that it couldn't really compete on any level so they went to jets. With jets it had adequate power but the early turbojets were so thirsty that the range was reduced considerably. This put it square into the medium bomber class, which let it compete with the B-47, which it couldn't do. The '47 was a medium from the word go, the Wing was a heavy that was knocked down to a medium, and it just didn't work.
One of my favorite air show memories is watching the small yellow flying wing in the skies around Chino, CA. It's a shame that the planes and its pilot were lost in a crash.
This is fascinating, and Curious Droid consistently has that effect on topics I had no interest or particular knowledge of. It also inspired me to read a bit about Jack Northrup, who I had no idea was such an intriguing inventor/innovator/entrepreneur, and how striking was his personal torment from the rejection by the corrupt or inept or what-have-you bureaucrats in the military and federal government. I wonder if they could make a movie, "Northrup".
I believe the wingspan of the YB-49 and the B2 are the same - 172 feet. Saw that in the same documentary on the History Channel.
The flying wing is being used to the max in the RC world 😉
Thanks for amazing content mate
Cheers
Years ago I had a book of paper (thin card) aeroplanes to cut out and make. It included a flying wing glider which flew very well. The wing tips were bent up vertically, does that disqualify it? Maybe you could tell me: when he refers to vertical stabilisation is that provided by the horizontal surface or the vertical one in a conventional plane? I'm wondering about winglets, you see. Aeromodelers are often near the cutting edge! I recommend a RUclips search for "18 wing ornithopter". The most astonishing flying thing I've seen!
Yep, the Klingberg flying wing, and the Zagi wings come to mind. The pure flying wing has another common offspring: High performance hang gliders.
@@SVSky the next step for an RC guy like me is definitely hang gliders 👍
@@raykent3211 my RC wing the E-flite opterra 2 meter wing sounds much like what you describing
Have some videos on my channel
It have the tips bend up to and two small vertical tips at the fuselage
One of my best flying and gliding RC planes
About disqualified as an wing because of the vertical tips 🤔
Actually a good question my friend
@@laseonestar That was my progression. You can see on my channel when I made the jump.
If I may: The Horten 229 was not for the 1000x1000x1000 requirement, I think that was the Horten XVIII project, which was a massively upscaled version. The 229 was initially a study to test the viability of the 18 if I remember correctly, but it was so good it was ordered into production as a fighter
Ben Hooper - You are correct. Good call.
From what I've always understood , that design is very difficult to control for whatever reason. And modern avionics making adjustments by the microsecond is the reason they were able to overcome that design issue.
So that's where all my guitar picks went.... On his shirt.
I was gonna say, hes got my dunlop tortex's all over it
I lived in Pasadena, CA, in the 90s. I had a condo, just a block off the Rose Parade route. One New Years, a B2 preceded the parade, at low altitude. That was a eerie sight !
Little correction: The N1M was a single engine model to prove that the tailless wing concept would work. The twin engine single pilot plane is the N9M. It was built during the development of the YB-35 to test engine out characteristics. The locations of the two engines on the N9M were such that with one out of the N9M, it would act like a YB-35 with two engines out on one wing. A single N9M is all that survives from the YB-35/49 project. There were a few other concepts for a flying wing fighter with a prone flying position and a chin rest for the pilot during high G maneuvers. It was later adapted to have jet engines, and test pilots were able to pull 12G maneuvers in them without blacking out. Those projects were also canceled when Northrop refused to merge with Convair, although they were not without their crashes. Of note, Jack Northrop designed the wing of the DC-2, the precursor to the most successful airplane ever built. The sturdy structure of the DC-3's wing is thanks to Jack Northrop, and his ideas he had in the early 30s designing his first flying wing.
This aircraft was a useful prop for 1960's sci-fi movies. I recall seeing on TV old movies where the threat of giant insects, toads or whatnot (as well as some hapless space aliens) was countered--after all the usual armaments failed--with the command "Send in the Flying Wing". Stock footage would show the futuristic and presumably super-powerful machine on its way to save the day. I wish I could remember the titles of those movies.
General "I want the Guam pilots salaries garnished for the B2 crash!"
Advisor "their military salaries will never cover it"
General "then give them a 550m dollar Yr raise and garnish that!"
The flying wing was definitely "stealthy" for the era. My father was a radar operator on a B-50 training in Tuscon around '48-'49 and said he tracked a plane on their radar, but it was too small to be the tanker they were supposed to find. After some radio calls to avoid the planes colliding, the other plane turned and dad's radar screen lit up with a bigger signature. He looked out the observation blister and could see the Flying Wing turning away. Once it went wings-level, it was like trying to see a pencil line in the sky.
Re: The proposed Convair-Northrop "merger"... Dad was in aerospace after his service (he worked at Convair then moved to Lockheed) and worked with some ex-Northrop guys from that time. They said Northrop was given more or less and ultimatum not only by Symington and Convair's President, but also a certain Texas Senator who they said tried to squeeze Northrop by his gonads. He told Northrop he'd never get another military contract unless he caved in. That Texas Senator was Lyndon Johnson -- and Convair was based in Ft. Worth at the time. So we've always had the best congressmen that money can buy!
Thanks for telling that story!
The B-2 Bomber is without a doubt the most beautiful aircraft ever made.
The big problem that aircraft have with flying wing designs as opposed to birds, especially going back to earlier days before fly-by-wire, was that while an aircraft's wing is mostly solid, with a limited range of motions and variability, a bird's wing and tail feathers are in contrast extremely dexterous, kind of like how a spider can easily run short distances with it's eight tiny legs. The fact that computerisation has come a long way does make a huge difference, but the other half of the problem remains. It would be interesting to see an aircraft design that used something like the many individual feathers of a bird to produce many highly variable control surfaces.
Anyone remember the Flying Wing from Raiders of the lost Ark? I know it's a prop, but I had to google it again.
It was created for the film, it was not an actual aircraft design.
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman That's why I said it was a prop.
Remember that , its scene like indi at Egypt and shot his enemy with the tail machine. Gun
ruclips.net/video/X-WgGjJ_On8/видео.html here American vs banzai charge at ww2
A 'bad guy' in Africa ate that prop . . . (Pat Reid? : )
Nazis actually built at least one.
Just seeing that clip of the Northrop YB-49 flying overhead is awesome.
flying wings: the most expensive plane to develop
F-35: hold my beer
The best cost the most
@@rich-qk7dc id hardly call it the best. best for what? wasting tax payer money? then yeah, its been great at doing that.
@@millermonsterair it is the best bomber in the world hands down, most who think its a waste of taxpayers money are not wven American
@@rich-qk7dc i see your flying wing and raise you a B-1 Lancer.....lol..... i was referring to the F-35 being a huge waste of taxpayer money...
F-35 is also the best
As a retired FAA employee, I found your vids exceptional in quality & technicality! Keep up the good work!
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"Hey captain there's something on the radar. About the size of a small bird but it's going 600mph"
I love your channel, your content is always very interesting, well researched, and put together nicely. Additionally whenever I can't fall asleep, I put on a couple hr playlist of Curious Droid's content... His soothing voice and relaxing background music always puts me right to sleep when I'm tired but can't seem to fall asleep... Do not take that as me implying that you are boring, as when I'm up and going during the day I can watch your videos for hrs... Keep up the great work..
Wait you mean the arsenal bird
Some trivia: Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a Late Cretaceous pterosaur the height of a giraffe, and with a wingspan the size of a Cessna 172, was named after Jack Northrop.
Nord VPN...Ouch!!!
Probably contractually obligated.
Helps me watch US-only Netflix shows from my home in the UK. I ain’t mad. Happy to pay the tiny amount a month extra for that.
@@mra2zee hoxx VPN... also plenty of others that have not been hacked and not tell their customers about it for months!!!
I think it should be pointed out that most stealth technology does not arise from paint, or cross section, but does from electronics and wire meshes built into the wing.
If only the enemy could program their radar to lock onto a 600MPH pigeon...
I don't think a computer would find that too difficult
@@armr6937 ...but but pumpkin POTUS has said the latest and best jets are totally invisible "you can't see 'em" so who am I to believe now!!!
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@@puirYorick You're talking to the world, here. Spain in particular. Couldn't give a damn so long as he does his job keeping the US from going to shit. And shit is always one step away with that Ponzi scheme that ALL of us are in. No time for dallying with politics, this.
@@armr6937 Yea, I love how everyone blames (any current president) for the conditions of the country (good or bad) now, when the problems, politics, profit and potential of the country goes back well over 150 years.
@@armr6937 I appear to have found myself communicating with an alternate reality. You think he's doing his job so we clearly don't exist in the same cosmos.
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I love your videos. The topics of your content are fabulous and the first thing I do when I open RUclips is checking your channel for new videos. There’s no better way of falling asleep listening to your calm voice talking about interesting stuff. I’m looking forward to more aviation related videos.
What a shirt! I've never seen so many pic's in my life!!
As a side note. When I was in school/university (1970's), I had an instructor, who was on the flight test team for the original flying wings (1940's-1950's). He stated that they had a flight from, roughly LA, Calif. to San Francisco, Calif. During this test they were unable to track the flying wing on "Radar." So, maybe, time was waiting for computer controlled flight?
Thanks
My first encounter with a Flying wing was in the 1953 movie War of the Worlds, as a child I was stunned by how different it was to other aircraft and have had an interest in them ever since.
I was living in Los Angeles when I was very young playing in the back yard and I heard this loud roar in the sky! When I looked up I saw the Flying Wing! I watched it until it was out of sight. This was around 1955. I still remember it very clearly. I think that it was built at Northrup in Inglewood in So. Cal
Muroc Air Force Base (originally Army Air Force Base) was renamed Edwards AFB in honor of Glen Edwards, who died piloting the YB-49 flying wing in 1948. Edwards was the primary base used for testing US aircraft from the 40's on, and where (among many others) the X-1 broke the sound barrier, and the X-15 was flown.
Shortly before Jack Northrup passed away, he was shown drawings and a model of the B-2 that was about to go into production. From Wikipedia: "Northrop reportedly wrote on a sheet of paper "Now I know why God has kept me alive for 25 years". B-2 project designer John Cashen said, "As he held this model in his shaking hands, it was as if you could see his entire history with the flying wing passing through his mind." He died 10 months later."
Why is he still using Nord VPN after they got hacked?
They are still a very good service.
Because money, it's real simple.
@@pierredubois5851 You have zero ability to confirm that.
@@otm646 I use a VPN in order to hide from the French government (for torrents) and to access Amazon prime USA from France. In both cases it works very well. That's it.
it wasn't a hack.. it's was a compromised sever via a third party setup and it was 1 server out of 50+
in reality it can (and has happened) to any vpn out there.
if anything they are probably the safest they have ever been as they did a audit of their systems to gain customer confidence back.
Arguably the most rewarding, easiest foam board Flite Test plane to build and fly (and crash and throwing back in the air) is the Arrow which is a small wing. If you’re into RC and can get dollar store foam board you should give it a try.
The downside of the 'flying wing' is that the wing is larger than required for the necessary lift it needs to generate. As everyone knows, the part most responsible for drag is not a fuselage, but the wing. Making a wing larger (read: with more frontal area) than necessary to do its job, only to provide volume to contain goods, results in more drag than created by a small wing and a fuselage. For this reason alone, Boeing opted already in an early stage to make the B-29 wing as small and narrow as possible, and house the engines in separate nacelles as opposed to containing them entirely within a large, thick wing. As an aside, Curious Droid remarks that the Northrop YB49's thickness of its wing reduced its speed considerably. And the YB49 was only a bomber, designed to carry a high density, low volume payload as opposed to passenger transports.
I think he did one on Nuclear powered planes once. Now there's a crazy😵 idea. ( Look it up. It was an insane idea!
It was actually a good idea, just that satellites were a far better idea...
Scott Manley also has a good video about it I think it's called project Pluto.
And curious droid also has one ruclips.net/video/DZHONQAMV48/видео.html
@@ftr98 Project Pluto was a bona fide insane concept.
Birds constantly change their shape of wings and tails to fly without a vertical stabilizer. Birds are the true masters of flying with an R&D advantage of millions of years. they also endure upto 10 - 14Gs everyday.
What about using the concept for passenger craft with seating in the singe wing and use vertical stabilisers as required?
The Germans (Lippisch and the Hortens) used different technology to Norton. Norton gave his wings sweep back, about 4 degrees of negative washout thus effectively having a tail pushing down at the wing tips. Stats were added to handle span wise flow and premature tip stall. The Germans also used this technique but they also made use of “auto stable airfoils”. these literally can create a flying plank that needs no sweep. The Me 163 used sweep and an auto stable airfoil as well as slots. The Horton Ho 229 used sweep and a small amount of washout but the bat like tail had reflex and was auto stable. Probably more effective than Norton’s. Note twin tails on B2.
Jets like the Me 262 and Meteor sll jets suffer from high speed snaking and this was not cured till yaw dampers were added to deflect the rudder up to 5%. They consist of rate gyro acting on a servo mechanically connected to the rudder or a small separate rudder.. Aircraft like the SR71 had dampers on all three axis yaw, pitch and roll. That’s exactly what the YB49 needed. Note the gyroscopic effect of propellors tends to stabilise.
I remember seeing the Flying Wing in the skies over San Diego in the mid to late 60's.
It was beautiful to see! From a distance it looked like a graceful bird. A very loud bird.
Shortly before his death, he (Jack Northrop) was given clearance to see designs and hold a scale model of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, which shared design features of his YB-35 and YB-49. The B-2, for example, has the same 172-foot wingspan as the jet-powered flying wing, YB-49. Northrop reportedly wrote on a sheet of paper "Now I know why God has kept me alive for 25 years".
From Wikipedia
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Looks in comments and they are all from an hour ago
Patrons have early access. That usually explains why just uploaded videos have old comments on it.
Not sure if you're being snarky or if you're one of the people who hasn't gotten the concept that you can pre-release videos privately.
It only shows the public posting date.
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@@Cemi_Mhikku You don't need to be rude about it.
@@scarfabledscar If you call that tiny bit of cheek rude, you may not want to spend much time on the internet.
Everybody gansta till the boomerang *drops bombs*
Love ur videos!👍✌️
One thing about flying wings I don't know is accurate, but I notice in games, is that the lift generated by a flying wing is very consistent, regardless of speed. A traditional plane will try to pitch up at high speed and drop the nose at low speeds, it would seem flying wings suffer much less from this effect. But I'm sure someone smarter than I can confirm/sink that idea.
with NordVPN help, this plane can go incognito in any country.
Curiously enough the Dunne D.8 biplane flying wing that you mention in the film was so incredibly stable that one pilot demonstrated this by allowing the aircraft to fly itself while he climbed out on to the wing.
Why no mention of the A.W.52 ?
I think Jack Northrop life and his flying wings is worthy of a Hollywood Biopic.
Amazing footage I‘ve never seen before. Love your channel!
NordVPN oof
just found your channel, love your work Mr Droid. Look forward to viewing all your movies, Ken, Australia
I think the birds comparison is a bit off, because planes have fixed wings, and birds don't. They move, retract, extend, they can actively stabilize and shift their weight, whereas with planes, all of that is a lot more difficult. It's much like us trying to made bipedal robots: a two-year old can walk upright, so how hard can it be for a robot? Well as it turns out, very, because the amount of sensory input, computing power, and active stabilization it takes to just stand upright, let alone walking or running, is enormous.
The Flying Wing evolved into the B-2 Bomber.
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I can't believe you didn't mention the B-21, or that Jack Northrop was allowed to see the then-classified B-2 designs before his death. Imagine how triumphant that must have felt.
1:42 This Mirage is a canard. It has got a horizontal stabilizer.
Suggesting people use NordVPN to improve their security is a bit like suggesting people eat at McDonalds if they want to lose weight. Not only did NordVPN get breached fairly recently, it took them a while to even notice, they didn't disclose it until over a year later and that disclosure was woefully inadequate in terms of the information it contained.
Thank you - very good research - I love this channel! Please tell us something about ring wing aircrafts - it was a promising approach I believe.
We enjoy your show very much. Have you ever done one on your background?
I love the intro, with the iris and space theme. 👍
Great video. You should have included the B-21 Raider which is presently in the assembly phase! Also, the recent crash of the only flyable Northrop N9M, piloted by a great guy I used to fly with.
"You look to the sky and hear the sound of money rubbing together."
Ah yes, Jeff Bezos drone hub
I'm glad you included the recent work at Dryden. Anyone who wants to hear more about it can look for Albion (or Al) Bowers NASA in RUclips for some of his talks.
Fascinating! This is a wonderful episode!
what happened to the flying wing? ask the CIA, the military and Area 51
I'm so glad that there are uber nerds like you to feed the little nerds like me all this cool info!
Lifting bodies and blended bodies are similar to the flying wing and are commonly used in fighter aircraft(especially russian ones) to increase lift along with wings while having very little drag.
Not a fan of military stuff but, the shape of B-2's are just amazing
You didnt mention one big point about the flying wing; in an event of stall/spin, they are the safest design out there. The story is that yu can point the nose up, pull back the throttle, and the plane will settle into a stable fall, comparable to the speeds of a parachute going down. The reason why it never made it as an airline design is that the person who owned the patents on this design (cant remember his name) wanted his pound of flesh, but Boeing/Douglas wouldn't comply, hence it never happened.
Still promoting NordVPN after their security debacle? uncool
Probably contractually obligated.
Making a hard earned income from putting together quality content that we consume for free? Pretty cool with me.
I'm pretty sure that "Nord VPN hack" was actually some hackers getting a list of peoples emails and passwords from a 3rd party site and then trying them on Nord, that's actually a very common way hackers get info
@@demanischaffer emails ............really , do you know what is encryption key .......
nord are scambags .....
@@JoeRadiation it's a common technique
Most people don't switch up their passwords and use the same ones across multiple sites, all it takes is a 3rd party website to be compromised and then hackers will just try and use those on other sites, change up your passwords or else it's your fault
Jack Northup was a genius. Ahead of his time. I love Northrup Grumman aircraft
Oh yes, Nord VPN, the only VPN stupid enough to leave a backdoor and get hacked recently because of that, thanks for promoting this crap...
AliveC4T that’s not what happened, you lying, sad piece of shit
It was one server in Brazil 😂 there's over 50 servers.
Probably contractually obligated.
And your information is wildly exasperated..
@@jesse9496 Even servers aren't safe in Brazil.
The provider for the VPN’s servers had a breach, not the VPN itself. No data was stolen, since it wasn’t stored in the first place
How many stories - for good or ill - begin to gather momentum with the words "During the War...."
Is it possible that birds have vertical geometry to their wings and tails that is difficult to notice? They do tend to curve up and down in arch shapes. Maybe that's important for stable flight. It's merely an observation.
Wow, I'm so early lmao
nasa have been testing some pretty tasty passenger jet designs, all based on flying wing airframes.
The most aerodynamic plane would be one with no wings or controls surfaces at all.
Short story, low drag is great but the best control surfaces use drag to operate.
Small little Arsenal bird.
I guess Boeing did not use "lessons learned" from the aviation industry about its single-point sensor failure mode that produced similar take-off crashes with two B737 Max's and it's MCAS system that Northrup B2's experienced in 2008 when a sensor failed to send correct data to the computer (time stamp 9:44) forcing the aircraft to pitch-up and lose lift.
The obvious reason birds don't need vertical stabilizers is because they wist their bodies to overcome unstabilizing lateral forces. That twisting bends their wings. All flying wing designs up to this point aren't using any twisting. They are using split elevons. Hey, you build a mechanical bird all our vertical takeoff and landing problems will go away as well.
The design of this thing is giving me some ideas
Although I don't think there is any definitive official name, I think the Horten wing should be Ho 9. Gotha was given the manufacturing contract and they received the number 229 from the RLM.
So the prototype that was captured and eventually ended up at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum is Ho 9 V3. If it made it to production, it would have been called Go 229.
That NASA remote control wing looks an awful lot like some of the Horten gliders from the 1930s.
Just like they look like Northrop designs from the 30's...
@@1993Crag Horten wings are *very* different, although there is parallel evolution with the two design schools. Early Horten designs were gliders. I think the Northrop ones were always powered.
The NASA wings from this video have quite a narrow chord, compared to Northrop wings.
www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/Horten-HoIV/IMAGES/All-three-Horten-Flying-wing-gliders.jpg
Coincidentally, the B-2 Spirit has the same dimensions as the YB-35/XB-49.
I wonder if we will ever see transport planes (not sure if passenger due to lack of windows) but I am guessing these planes would be massive and make the problems caused by the Airbus 380's size look minor.
I know this channel deals in absolutes so forgive me for for now speaking in hearsay, so the NASA Delta wing is the Mars flyer currently being test in the Antarctic ( nearest to a Mars environment) I have a colleague there who is a marine biologist using the same environment as a model for finding biology on Mars. Then how about the possibility of the flying triangle? What would be your view on that subject?