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- From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
- Subject: Re: fast-track failures
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.204710.13592@pixel.kodak.com>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 20:47:10 GMT
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- Pat (prb@access.digex.com) wrote:
- >
- > Actually another case was the YB-49 and YB-50? those were
- > northrops flying wing prototypes, the turbo-prop and the jet versions.
- >
- > They actually flew but had trouble with range, and power. the prop job
- > needed twin counter rotating props to really develope thrust.
- >
- > Plus there were enormous political problems witht he Air Force on the
- > birds. Too bad, the effort broke jack northrop and he never got to
- > see his vision carried off in the B-2.
-
- Actually he was given a look at a B-2 model while it was still a black
- program. His reported words were "Now I know why I got to live so long".
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