AVIATION: Flying Wing

Nobody thinks that the present design of planes is definitive. One who has revolutionary ideas about the next step is brainy, energetic John Knudsen Northrop. He thinks the tail ought to come off: he believes that conventional airplanes will eventually be replaced by tailless flying wings. This week in Hawthorne, Calif. Jack Northrop proudly showed his Flying Wing bomber, which looked like a giant boomerang, 172 feet from tip to tip.

The unconventional XB-35 is the first of 15 which Northrop Aircraft, Inc. is building for the U.S. Army. Fully loaded, it will...

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