Morgans wrote:
"Monk" wrote

Never mind. This picture puts in better perspective.
http://northrop.host.sk/images/MX-32...rry_Crosby.jpg

After looking at the two pictures, I would put his eyeballs at between 3 and
4 feet off the ground.

Still, that's quite a perspective, since it is your melon that is out in
front of almost everything else, and it is what would get smushed, if
anything "bad" happened. Hmmm.

Also, I have never read about it's flight characteristics, but the small
fin, and the fact that it would be totally blanketed in a spin, I would bet
a very mean flat spin could develop, if it was ever spun.

I had never seen that one before. Interesting, and probably slick as snot!
It would be fun to build one with the pilot sitting like a sleek glider
pilot, and with a pusher prop.


Rocket powered maybe? See the3rd pic down.
http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/FW/Northrop.htm


But THIS is the sweetie...

N9M was a scaled down pre-design version of the XB-35/49

N-9M 1942 = 1-2pC flying wing; two 260hp Menasco C6C; span: 60'0"
length: 17'10" v: 257/100/x range (est): 500 ceiling (est): 21,500'.
One-third-size flying scale model of B-35. Gross wt: 7000#, endurance:
3.2 hrs. POP: 1 N-9M, 1 N-9M-A, and 1 N-9M-B with two 300hp 8-cyl
Franklin O-540-7. Although officially test models for USAAF, s/ns were
never assigned. The first N-9M crashed on 5/19/43, killing test pilot
Max Constant. The N-9M-B was restored by the Planes of Fame Museum in 1994.

http://www.aerofiles.com/north-n9m.jpg
http://www.aerofiles.com/north-n9mx.jpg
http://www.aerofiles.com/north-N9Mcockpit.jpg


For a synopsis of ALL Northrop work...
http://www.aerofiles.com/_north.html


Richard