the Daily Timewaster finds some really cool stuff, the YB-35, YB-49 and the B-2

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/ey4uc5/the_evolution_of_the_b2_the_yb35_yb49_and_the_b2/#lightbox

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-yb-35-yb-49-and-b-2-bombers.html

one step closer to making a reality of a Studio Ghibli flying wing from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

The innards of the sublime YB-35 drawn by Charles Rayburn

Found on a site that has a surprising amount of cool aircraft stuff posted 

https://elpoderdelasgalaxias.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/northrop-b-35-flying-wing-bomber/

the 1942 Vought V-173. It had two 80 hp Piper Cub engines that turned two 16.5-foot propellers, and could land at 22 mph. Thanks George!

 

https://www.flyingmag.com/historys-unique-aircraft/the-u-s-navys-unconventional-flying-pancake-fighter/

I had forgotten that there was a flying wing in Transformers: Last Knight, a made up hybrid of the Northrop B-35 and B-49

1949 (reposted because the blog conked out, and I deleted the 5 newest posts as one of them could have had malware code and been the problem... they weren't, so, reposting. Sorry about the deleted comments!)

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-flying-wing-imagine-piloting-that.html

the flying wing r and d was a LOT of faceplants.... but it was a noble effort to get a working flying wing that we know eventually succeeded

lots and lots of faceplants, probably from under-engineered nose gear.

see hundreds of photos of the developement from frame to engines to flying: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/albums/72157719269344046

A B-2 Spirit assigned to 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/08/29/northrop-weighs-new-capabilities-for-b-2-after-successful-test/

because I love those really old helicopters, sci fi and fantasy air battle scenes, and I wanted to let you know of a website I just came across that only features pulp magazine cover art

 https://pulpcovers.com/  there's 23 pages just of this artists other work. 

If you think the flying submarine is goofy, well, this artist was making a lot goofier stuff to get kids to buy these magazines, like vampires, combat skeletons, silver sinned gremlins, very ridiculous stuff that was a lot like Flash Gordon, or Edgar Rice Burroughs creations, and Red Skull, Capt America's adversary

https://pulpcovers.com/tag/frederickblakeslee

I just found the link to the earlier post about a pulp magazine cover artist https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/05/edgar-franklin-wittmack-1894-1956.html

Historic Northrup Flying Wing, N9M, crashed into the Norco prison yard

There were no indications that prisoners or anyone on the ground was injured. Only a pilot was on board the Northrop N9M aircraft crashed just after noon at the California Rehabilitation Center on Fifth Street in Norco.

The aircraft was identified as the 1944 one of a kind remaining - Flying Wing, owned by the Planes of Fame Air Museum in nearby Chino.

https://ktla.com/2019/04/22/plane-crashes-in-prison-yard-of-facility-in-norco-faa/
https://abc7.com/historic-small-plane-crashes-at-state-prison-in-norco/5264698/

Convair B-36 and Northrop YB-49 over the White House in 1949.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/408007142579635/permalink/2057954437584889/

Flying Wings, the Northrop XB-35, at the Northrop plant in Hawthorne, California in 1949.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelryerson/17474387496/

the Northrop YB 49-6

https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/page287

the YB 49 Flying Wing compared to a B 17 and B 2

and that might be a Sabre below to the left, I'm not sure
From a 3 page article on the Flying Wing at https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/the-amazing-flying-wing-images-you-havent-seen-before.html/

I found the flying wing, in it's home hanger. The Chino "Planes of Fame" museum

coolest place I've visited in a long time due to the unexpected awesome stuff on display. Your clubhouse will never be this cool... the Space Age Paint Supply in Phoenix

the following posts, the railcar and the Arrow Plane are both at the Space Age Paint Supply... but deserve individual posts.