Northrop N-9M

Northrop N-9M adalah pesawat skala sepertiga digunakan untuk pengembangan Program bomber jarak jauh Northrop XB-35 dan YB-35 Flying Wing.

Pertama diterbangkan pada tahun 1942, N-9M (M Model) adalah yang ketiga dalam garis keturunan dari desain pesawat semua sayap Northrop yang dimulai pada tahun 1929 ketika Jack Northrop berhasil dalam percobaan awal dengan baling-baling tunggal pendorong nya, twin-ekor, twin-boom, semua stres logam kulit monoplane Northrop Flying Wing X-216H,"Flying Wing Is Successful In first Tests." Popular Mechanics, May 1930. dan satu dekade kemudian, dual-prop N-1M pada 1939-1941.O'Leary 2007, p. 62. Perintis pesawat semua sayap Northrop akan memimpin Northrop Grumman selama bertahun-tahun kemudian sampai akhirnya mengembangkan pembom siluman canggih B-2 Spirit, yang memulai debutnya dalam persediaan Angkatan Udara pada tahun 1989.

 Referensi 

 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, editor. "Northrop Flying Wings", Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Etobicoke, Ontario: Prospero Books, 1997. ISBN 1-85605-375-X.
 Maloney, Edward T. Northrop Flying Wings. Corona del Mar, California: World War II Publications, 1988. ISBN 0-915464-00-4.
 O'Leary, Michael. "Northrop's Flying Sorcery". Aeroplane, Volume 35, Number 6, Issue 410, June 2007. pp. 62–64.
 O'Leary, Michael. "The Shape of Wings to Come". Aeroplane, Volume 35, Number 6, Issue 410, June 2007, pp. 65–68.
 O'Leary, Michael. "Wings of Northrop, Part Two". Air Classics, Volume 44, Number 1, January 2008, Challenge Publications, Inc. ISSN 0002-2241. (Heavily illustrated, authoritative N-9M article.)
 New 'Flying Wing' Plane Hailed as Great Advance In Aviation. "The Baltimore American" newspaper, Section E, 9 February 1930. (Front-page feature article with two photos reporting on Northrop's flights with his first Flying Wing monoplane.)
 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.
 Wooldridge, E. T. Winged Wonders: The Story of the Flying Wings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. ISBN 0-87474-966-2.

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