Designed and constructed by Northrop at Hawthorne, Calif, airplane represents first successful true flying wing; it has no tail surfaces or auxiliary surfaces and no fuselage; power plant and personnel are housed within contours of airfoil; two engines are buried in wing on either side of pilot's cockpit, driving pusher propellers through extension shafts. (See also Western Flying v 21 n 11 Nov 1941 p 40-2 and 56; U S Air Services v 26 n 11 Nov 1941 p 15-6; Aero Digest v 39 n 5 Nov 1941 p 116, 118 and 121)
Northrop's "Flying wing"
Aviation
Aviation ; 40 , n 12
1941
Article (Journal)
English
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