yb49flyingwing

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airmanisr2 said:
The Northrop YB-49 was a prototype jet-powered heavy bomber aircraft developed by Northrop Corporation shortly after World War II for service with the U.S. Air Force. The YB-49 featured a flying wing design and was a jet-powered development of the earlier, piston-engined Northrop XB-35 and YB-35. The two YB-49s actually built were both converted YB-35 test aircraft The YB-49 never entered production, being passed over in favor of the more conventional Convair B-36 piston-driven design. Design work performed in the development of the YB-35 and YB-49 nonetheless proved to be valuable to Northrop decades later in the eventual development of the B-2 stealth bomber, which entered service in the early 1990s So there was never a B-49.

James Nicoletti said:
I believe this is the YRB-49A judging by the fighter like cockpit canopy.

James Nicoletti said:
If this is in fact a YB-49, then it is a very late derivation with the fighter plane like canopy. If it is the YRB-49, then it appears to be early in the conversion before the podded engines where fitted under the wing.