The flying wing design is niche and rare today, but the concept has been the focus of study for 100 years. The flying wing design is intuitive but relatively rare. As the name implies, a flying ...

Since a flying wing is built around Bernoulli’s principle, no flying wing aircraft has ever been able to break the sound barrier; even the B-2 is limited to subsonic flight.

Hence designers believe the flying wing can either. 1) get the same speed with perhaps half the horsepower of a normal plane or. 2) get 25-30% more speed with the same horsepower.

Nobody thinks that the present design of planes is definitive. One who has revolutionary ideas about the next step is brainy, energetic John Knudsen Northrop. He thinks the tail ought to come off: ...