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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:30 PM
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Awright, ya bastids, what plane is THIS?
And what's its historical significance?

:P
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:32 PM
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1. a 'flying wing', it's significants is that it was invented as a flying craft...
by Hitler's Nazi regime
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:36 PM
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4. I'll give you half for the first part
And bzzzzt for the second. :P
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:45 PM
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11. elaborate please...
my father was a AF pilot, and my godfather a top gun pilot & trainer, you need to do better than that http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002598.html :P :P
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:49 PM
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13. It is a flying wing
But I wanted the specific model, whose historical significance is not related to the Nazis.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:53 PM
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16. very well, carry on citizen...
:patriot:
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:34 PM
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2. It's color was chosen by the cast of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"?
:shrug:


:P
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:37 PM
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6. Do you seriously believed
they'd go for a mustard yellow? Not likely.
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:45 PM
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12. heheheh.
no, not "mustard yellow", it would have to be called something more sophisticated, like "sunshine", or "amarillo" :P
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:35 PM
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3. YB-47
First flying wing bomber, made after World War Two. Dropped in favor of the B-52
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:36 PM
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5. Look closer
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:38 PM
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8. The propellers are on the wrong side.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:40 PM
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9. They're pushers
Ya twit. :spank:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:41 PM
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10. That is Upper Class Twit of the Year to you!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OMSic0V-Xww
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:50 PM
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14. Can't be you
Gervaise Brook-Hampster was my name on a Python forum. :P
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:53 PM
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17. Shit!
:rofl:
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 03:01 PM
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30. Argh, my old roomie called just as I was typing my response
I didn't have time to follow up!

Yeah, it's too small to be a heavy bomber like the YB-49 was.

D'oh!
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:55 PM
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20. that's not the YB47
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 11:07 PM
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23. I think he must've meant the YB-49, anyway
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:37 PM
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7. This was the final attempt to transform the boomerang into an instrument of terror.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:52 PM
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15. Is that the Air Force school bus?
:rofl:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:54 PM
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18. Ding!
The Very Short Airbus. :D
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 11:04 PM
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22. OMD!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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achtung_circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:55 PM
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19. Northrop N9M flying wing. nt
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:57 PM
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21. Ding!
Now... for part two. :P
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 12:06 AM
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24. YB49 designed by Jack Northrup.............
Edited on Sun Oct-21-07 12:06 AM by Historic NY
this is the small scale version of what was to be called the "flying wing". The plane went through many design changes but never did fly in any active service. The last versions were powered by jet engines. It was dropped in favor of the YB-47 Stratojet. Note the yellow color is the designated color of an experimental aircraft.This plane formed the basis of the design of the now storied B-1 bomber.


http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-49-pics.htm
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 12:27 AM
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25. Ding!
Well... ding-minus. Your answer combined with achtung_circus's is the correct one. But, yeah — the N9M was a one-third-scale test bed for the YB-35, which became the YB-49 when problems with the drive shafts for the counter-rotating propellors moved Northrop to convert to jet engines. But that severely limited its range, and by then the Boeing B-47 was in production.

Yeah, the B-1 is based on the YB-49. They even have the same wing span.

:thumbsup:
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 08:28 AM
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28. At least Jack was vindicated...............
he lived to see his idea fly, amazing how what was old becomes rediscovered. I strongly believe the quality of our engineering then was much better than now. Their ideas were only limited by the ability to develop raw resources necessary to implement them. I they had the computer technology then the sky would have been the limit. Jack's plane was manual control and they damn near perfected it, today the B-1 is fly by wire and controlled by computers.
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 04:43 AM
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26. It's a runway Zamboni n/t
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 06:31 AM
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27. It's a yellow plane and its historical significance is...
that it is painted with the ugliest yellow paint ever known to mankind. :P

:popcorn:
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 09:11 AM
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29. Doesn't the Stealth
look something like that?
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 03:07 PM
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31. But it isn't yellow. Yellow would kind of mess up the stealth thing.
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