The Northrop Flying Wing

The Northrop N-9M was a one-third scale, 60-foot wide, all-wing aircraft used for the development of the 172-foot-wide Northrop XB-35 and YB-35 flying wing long-range bomber program. First flown in 1942, the N-9M (M for Model) was the third in a lineage of all-wing Northrop aircraft designs that began in 1929 when Jack Northrop (1895-1981) succeeded in early experiments with his single pusher propeller, twin-tailed, twin-boom, all stressed metal-skin Northrop Flying Wing X-216H monoplane. From the San Diego Air and Space Museum.