The N-9M (mockup) would be a flying wing design with a 60 ft wingspan, powered by two Menasco C6S-4 269 engines producing 269 horsepower each. Top speed was 257 mph, service ceiling 19,500 ft, with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The B-21 bomber pairs cutting edge tech with a throwback aircraft design. It is based on a visionary aircraft design that dates ...

Northrop Grumman is confirming it has built the experimental XRQ-73 hybrid-electric flying-wing the company has been developing under a secretive US military project. The Virginia-based aerospace ...

Northrop’s XB-35 flying wing promised a bomber that could fly farther, carry more bombs, and do it more efficiently than traditional aircraft. Its giant wing only shape, huge payload, and long range ...

John Knudsen Northrop, 45, has designed such crack planes as the Lockheed Vega, the Army’s A17, but it became evident last week that a big part of his heart and head was really in something very ...

The decision comes after the first prototype of the next-generation stealth bomber has completed at least two successful flights. The US Air Force (USAF) has approved low-rate production of the ...

"This photo survey covers the flying wing and tailless craft designed and produced by Jack Northrop and his team at Northrop Aircraft, Incorporated between 1939 and the early 1950s. It is not meant to ...

The U.S. Dept of Defense issued a five-year contract worth up to $7 billion to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. for modernization and sustainment activities for the B-2 ...

A sensational advance in industrial technique was revealed last week and immediately opened the way for major advances in the aviation industry. The new technique: arc-welding of magnesium. Result: ...