The vast open skies and secluded airstrips of the Mojave Desert have been used as testing grounds for the world’s most advanced aircraft for decades, and on Oct. 21, 1947, Northrop’s iconic “Flying ...

Born from a quest for better performance and visibility, the XP-56 Black Bullet pushed flying wing design to the extreme. This episode follows Northrop’s radical magnesium fighter, its dangerous ...

Early aviation engineers appreciated the potential for a “flying wing” design. A flying wing, which minimizes fuselage and usually eliminates the tail, reduces many of the aerodynamic compromises ...

Northrop Grumman is beginning high-speed windtunnel testing of the oblique flying wing X-plane it is designing for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. If built, the OFW technology ...

Active control of wing flexing can allow a high-flying surveillance aircraft to have a long, swept wing that is both aerodynamically efficient and lightweight, Northrop Grum­man has demonstrated. The ...

Today, we tend to associate the flying wing design of aircraft with stealthy planes like the B-2 and the upcoming B-21 bomber. But the world’s first jet-powered flying wing emerged 70 years ago, and ...

Northrop Grumman is proposing what it believes to be a unique combination of a flying wing with a powered-lift system as a future short-takeoff-and-landing multi-mission transport. The proposal, for ...

In the 1940s, Jack Northrop’s flying wings were meant to revolutionize aviation - sleek, fast, and efficient. But innovation ...