List of flying wing aircraft

The experimental Northrop YB-49 bomber of the 1950s.

The following is a list of flying wing aircraft, along with some information about their roles, successfulness, and country of origin. A flying wing aircraft is one in which the fuselage and tail sections are abandoned, and the crew operates inside a thick wing. In theory, such an aircraft has a higher lift and lower drag than conventional ones, though there are drawbacks related to limited stability margins.

List of flying wings

True flying wings

• AC 20.30
• AeroVironment Wasp — unmanned aircraft
• Akaflieg SB13 (1980s)
• Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 (1949) — twin engined jet
• Baynes Bat (1943)
• Brochocki BKB-1
• Dassault nEUROn — unmanned aircraft
• DINFIA IA 38 (1960), cargo aircraft designed by Reimar Horten in Argentina.
• Dunne D.1 (1907)
• Dunne D.5 (1910)
• Burgess-Dunne (1911/2)
• Facetmobile, experimental homebuilt aircraft
• Farrar V-1 Flying Wing
• Fauvel AV.36
• Freel Flying Wing
• Haig Minibat
• Arup 2 (1932)
• Hoffman 1934 flying wing
• Horten H.I (1933) — glider
• Horten H.Ib
• Horten H.II (1935) — glider
• Horten H.III (1937) — glider / motorglider
• Horten H.IIIa
• Horten H.IIIc
• Horten H.IIIf
• Horten H.IV
• Horten H.IVb
• Horten H.V (1936) — twin pusher engined flying wing - World's first all-composite aircraft.
• Horten H.VI
• Horten H.VII (1942) — twin pusher engined flying wing
• Horten H.VIII
• Horten H.IX V1
• Horten H.IX V2
• Horten H.IX
• Horten H.X
• Horten H.XI
• Horten H.XIII
• Horten H.XIIIa
• Horten H.XIIIb
• Horten H.XIV
• Horten H.XV
• Horten H.XVa
• Horten H.XVb
• Horten H.XVc
• Horten H.XVI
• Horten H.XVIII — Design of a long range jet bomber.
• Horten Parabola
• Horten Ho 229 (1944) — One of the few planes that met Hermann Göring's 1000 kg bombs x 1000 km/h speed x 1000 km range performance requirements, the H.IX/Go 229 was an experimental fighter built by Nazi Germany near the end of World War II.
• I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú (1949), glider designed by Reimar Horten in Argentina and manufactured by the FMA.
• I.Ae. 41 Urubú, glider designed by Reimar Horten in Argentina.
• Interstate XBDR
• Kasper Bekas

The Klingberg Wing was the first foot-launched sailplane and employed all composite construction.

• Klingberg Wing, first foot launched sailplane (1987)
• Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel (2007) — UAV
• Marske Monarch
• Marske Pioneer
• Marske XM-1
• McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II — An American attack aircraft intended to replace the United States Navy's A-6 Intruder. The project was aborted in 1991 before any aircraft were built.
• Mitchell U-2 Superwing (1977)
• Northrop B-2 Spirit (1989), an American stealth bomber, built as an alternative to the F-117 Nighthawk with a much larger payload.
• Northrop Grumman Switchblade
• Northrop N-1M (1940)
• Northrop N-9M (1942)
• Northrop B-35 (1945) — competitor to the Convair B-36 heavy bomber
• Northrop YB-49 (1947) — YB-35 converted to use jet engines. Though proven to have stability problems and cancelled, it served as the inspiration for the B-2 Spirit.
• Vought V-173 (1942)
• Vought XF5U (1947)
• Weltensegler (1921)
• Northrop XP-79 Flying Ram (1945)

Blended Wing Bodies

The Boeing X-48 is not a true flying wing aircraft, but a blended-body aircraft.

• Boeing X-45C (2002) — unmanned aircraft
• Boeing X-48
• Burnelli CBY-3
• Lockheed Martin/Boeing RQ-3 DarkStar
• Northrop Grumman X-47 Pegasus (2003) — unmanned aircraft
• Silent Aircraft Initiative

External links

• NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project
• Progress of development of Wingco Atlantica small BWB plane
• Airliners.net photo of the Atlantica prototype aircraft, July 2004
• Development History of Horten Flying Wing Aircraft

See also

• Blended wing body
• Flying wing
• Lifting body
• Variable-sweep wing