List of flying wing aircraft
- List of flying wing aircraft
The following is a list of flying wing aircraft, along with some information about their roles, successfulness, and country of origin. A flying wing aircraft is one in which the fuselage and tail sections are abandoned, and the crew operates inside a thick wing. In theory, such an aircraft has a higher lift and lower drag than conventional ones, though it can be difficult to use properly due to its inherent instability.
Some aircraft incorporate design elements fundamental to a blended wing design (such as the B-1 Lancer and F-16 Fighting Falcon), but not to the extent that a true flying wing or blended wing body would possess.
List of flying wings
True flying wings
*Arup 2 (1932)
*Hoffman (1934)
*Freel Flying Wing
*Northrop N-1M (1940)
*Horten Ho IV (1941) — glider
*Northrop N-9M (1942)
*Vought V-173 (1942)
*Baynes Bat (1943)
*Horten Ho 229 (1944) — One of the few planes that met Hermann Göring's infamous performance requirements, the Ho 229 was an experimental fighter built by Nazi Germany near the end of World War II.
*Horten Ho XVIII — Design of a long range jet bomber.
*Northrop XP-79 Flying Ram (1945)
* Northrop B-35 (1945) — competitor to the Convair B-36 heavy bomber
*Northrop YB-49 (1947) — YB-35 converted to use jet engines. Though proven to have stability problems and cancelled, it served as the inspiration for the B-2 Spirit.
*Vought XF5U (1947)
*Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 (1949) — twin engined jet
*Northrop B-2 Spirit (1989) — An American stealth bomber, built as an alternative to the F-117 Nighthawk with a much larger payload.
*McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II — An American attack aircraft intended to replace the United States Navy's A-6 Intruder. The project was aborted in 1991 before any aircraft were built.
*Facetmobile — experimental homebuilt aircraft
*Northrop Grumman Switchblade
=Blended Wing Bodies=
*Boeing X-45C (2002) — unmanned aircraft
*Boeing X-48
*Lockheed Martin/Boeing RQ-3 DarkStar
*Northrop Grumman X-47 Pegasus (2003) — unmanned aircraft
*Silent Aircraft Initiative
*Wingco Atlantica (airplane) — in development
External links
* [http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/TRC/Aeronautics/FLYING_WING.html NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project]
* [http://www.wingco.com/progress.htm Progress of development of Wingco Atlantica small BWB plane]
* [http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0623950/L/ Airliners.net picture of the Atlantica prototype aircraft, July 2004]
ee also
*Blended wing body
*Burnelli CBY-3 and other designs by Vincent Burnelli
*Flying wing
*Lifting body
*Variable-sweep wing
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