The Northrop B-2 is a flying wing bomber that has corporate, structural and sentimental connections to the famous XB-35 and YB-49 aircraft of the 1940s. The present Northrop Corporation has always denied that there was any direct engineering relationship between the aircraft. But their obvious similarities in shape, concept and wingspan have fixed in the public mind that the modern B-2 is a direct descendant of John Northrop's most famous designs.
