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Restored Vintage Northrop N9MB Flying Wing---Rare Sight !

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This is a video that I took of the Planes of Fame Museum's (Chino, California) Northrop N9MB Flying Wing while performing a display at the Palm Springs Air Museum in 2006. This aircraft was painstakingly restored over a 13-year period.

As part of the November 1941 contract that Northrop was awarded for the proposed XB-35 Flying Wing included the construction of four, 1/3-scale aircraft, designated N9M, that were to act as flying test beds for various flight systems and also to familiarize Air Force pilots with flying-wing operations. The Planes of Fame Flying Wing in this video is one of those aircraft, and the only one remaining. Aviation greats such as Jack Northrop himself, Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover actually flew this exact aircraft. I understand that this aircraft has a lot of idiosyncrasies that every pilot that ever flew her fell prey to, with interesting results!

Unfortunately, this aircraft experienced an in-flight engine fire just a short time after this video was taken in its left, 300 hp., 8-cylinder Franklin 0-540-7 engine. Pilot Ron Hackworth skillfully landed the aircraft safely. The Flying Wing has since been pretty much restored, but the restoration of the rare Franklin 0-540-7 engine is another matter. There were only 13 of these engines ever built and it is believed that only three of them exist today. The needed parts may be newly manufactured as necessary, but the factory drawings are needed. They have not yet been located to my knowledge, as of Nov. 2007.

Given the resourcefulness of the Planes of Fame people, this aircraft will once again fly the skies of Southern California. But in the meantime, enjoy the rare video of this historic aircraft!

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Restored Vintage Northrop N9MB Flying Wing---Rare Sight !

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  • Let me tell U ...

    Let me tell U German subs were outdated + second rate 2 the US Fleet Submarine with 10,000 mile range. 1939 new US Subs had Mark 1 TDC Tactical Data Computer + computer decoder machines. US Fleet Subs were air conditioned 4 hability + advanced electronics on board. US subs had radar with five mile radius which made running on the surface much safer. Top speed was 27 knots and + Jap ships destroyed by US were triple that of Germany.

    "Watch Silent Service 1-6" to see the best + why U lost WW2!

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  • Thats bullshit + U ...

    Thats bullshit + U know it! USA was far ahead of the Krauts N aviation because Nazis choked creativity N dictatorship while Americans R free 2 do what they do best + that Avionics. The swept wing on ME-262 came off Northupps flying wing + is not a German invention. Northrupp an American years ahead of Horton Balsa Wood Glider that was never powered like his twin engine flying wing that flew N 1935. Theres a big difference between a Kraut glider + Northupp's superior 1935 twin engine flying wing

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  • Scharfschutzen1 + ...

    Scharfschutzen1 + Nazi F**king Troll

    Germans R the best at stealing USA technology + putting their Nazi Rubber Stamp on it saying we designed it. Nazi Germany's SS Major Werner Von Braun admitted he stole rocket designs 4 the V-2 from US Patent office. Robert Goddard an American scientist designed, built + launched first liquid fueled rocket N New Mexico,USA N 1926. It speed 500 MPH plus Godard had over 200 patents. Have U heard of the Goddard Space Center @ Nazi. Krauts R second rate @ best.

    By TombstoneAnnieOakly [Affiliate User] 1221154098 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • PeacesEagle is a ...

    PeacesEagle is a F**king Nazi Troll! R U crazy Robert Northrupp's an Ameerican twin engine powered flying wing flown N 1935 was years ahead of Germany take a look @ videos on Utube. USA was 1st N flight. BTW take a look at the first powered flying wing built N 1926 by USA podiatrist. American inventors were years of the Germans with powered flight.

    The flying "Heel Lift" - Arup S2 and S4 flying wings 1926

    Northrop Flying Wing 1935

    YB-49 Memorial
    Northrop B-49 Flying Wing (Jet Powered)

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  • Hahahahahaha, looks ...

    Hahahahahaha, looks like an old banger pulled out of the early 1800.

    By PeacesEagle [Affiliate User] 1220809148 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • this is actually ...

    this is actually quite true, a german designed the computer first, the first jet airplane was german, and the first flying wing was designed by a a german during WWII.

    By sergeant137 [Affiliate User] 1219662085 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • If your so superior ...

    If your so superior then why did a young 140 year old country kick your nazi ass? twice.

    By rocketsharc [Affiliate User] 1219207163 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • the US planed the ...

    the US planed the flying wing right after WWI..... so, they didnt steal it?

    By DangerofDeath2 [Affiliate User] 1218827029 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • God I hope not! ...

    God I hope not! Right up there with the pet rock.

    By TJDOZIER1 [Affiliate User] 1218597950 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • and the cabbage ...

    and the cabbage patch? lol

    By darranpight [Affiliate User] 1218570152 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • But the Beanie Baby ...

    But the Beanie Baby !

    By pup2097 [Affiliate User] 1218570055 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Actually the ...

    Actually the Germans made the flying wing and America stole it along with most other things they claim to be their own? Computers, jet engine, rockets ect... to name but a few? :-)

    By darranpight [Affiliate User] 1218569135 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Yes, didn't America ...

    Yes, didn't America give us the Beanie Baby ?

    By pup2097 [Affiliate User] 1218568680 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Watch the video ...

    Watch the video called "So you dont like America or Americans" for a more complete list of what America has given to the world. That does not diminish the accomplishments of other nations, but we have done more. We have gone farther, faster and deeper that all of the other nations combined. But I think penicillin may be the greatest discovery so far. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to the Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928. Every nation contributes to the world.

    By TJDOZIER1 [Affiliate User] 1217565515 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • The payoff is ...

    The payoff is seeing and hearing a piece of history in the skies. To me, it's worth it.

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