Northrop YB-35

Northrop XB-35 dan YB-35 adalah pesawat pembom berat eksperimental yang dikembangkan oleh Northrop Corporation untuk United States Army Air Forces selama dan segera setelah Perang Dunia II.

Pesawat ini menggunakan desain sayap terbang radikal dan berpotensi sangat efisien, di mana bagian ekor dan badan pesawat dieliminasi dan semua payload dilakukan di sayap tebal. Hanya prototipe dan pesawat pra-produksi dibangun, meskipun masih cukup kuat untuk menjamin pengembangan lebih lanjut dari desain sebagai bomber jet, di bawah penunjukan YB-49.

Referensi

• Allen, Francis. "Before the B-2: Northrop's Flying Wings, The XB-35 and XB-49". Air Enthusiast. No. 106, July/August 2003, pp. 2–12. Stamford, UK: Key Publishing. ISSN 0143-5450.
• Coleman, Ted. Jack Northrop and the Flying Wing: The Real Story Behind the Stealth Bomber. New York: Paragon House, 1988. ISBN 1-55778-079-X.
• Donald, David, ed. "Northrop Flying Wings". Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Etobicoke, Ontario: Prospero Books, 1997. ISBN 1-85605-375-X.
• Fitzsimons, Bernard, ed. "Scorpion, Northrop F-89." Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare, Volume 21. London: Phoebus, 1978. ISBN 0-8393-6175-0.
• Gunston, Bill. "Northrop's Flying Wings". Wings of Fame. Volume 2, pp. 24–37. London: Aerospace Publishing, 1996. ISBN 1-874023-69-7. ISSN 1361-2034.
• Jones, Lloyd S. U. S. Fighters. Fallbrook, California: Aero Publishers, 1975. ISBN 0-8168-9200-8.
• Knaack, Marcelle Size. Post-World War II Bombers, 1945–1973. Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1988. ISBN 0-16-002260-6.
• Maloney, Edward T. Northrop Flying Wings, Corona del Mar, California: World War II Publications, 1988. ISBN 0-915464-00-4.
• O'Leary, Michael. "Wings of Northrop, Part Three." Air Classics, Volume 44, Number 2, February 2008, Challenge Publications, Inc. ISSN 0002-2241. (Heavily illustrated, authoritative XB/YB-35 article.)
• Pape, Garry and John Campbell. Northrop Flying Wings: A History of Jack Northrop's Visionary Aircraft. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1995. ISBN 0-88740-689-0.
• Winchester, Jim, "Northrop XB-35/YB-49". Concept Aircraft: Prototypes, X-Planes and Experimental Aircraft. Kent, UK: Grange Books plc., 2005. ISBN 978-1-84013-809-2.
• "The Wing". Flight, 20 March 1947, pp. a–b, 241.
• Wooldridge, E. T. Winged Wonders: The Story of the Flying Wings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. ISBN 0-87474-966-2.

Pranala luar

• Manual: (1948) Report No. HB-18 Pilot's Handook for the XB-35 Heavy Bombardment Airplane
• Encyclopedia of American Aircraft Diarsipkan 2007-05-28 di Wayback Machine.
• USAF Museum XB-35
• USAF Museum YB-35
• Popular Science, May 1946, 100-ton Flying Wing