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B-49M

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Among many tales of what-if planes on the web, is the "what if the YB-49 flying wing was built and it was kept as long in service as the B-52 would be?" In this idea, picture a very tired design, reaching the end of its days in the early 1970's, and having been rebuilt and re-engined twice previously. However a new strategic plan calls for one more modify since the B2 design is going to be both late and very expensive. This rebuild will allow the outer wing panels to be discarded and the use of new materials. So the B-49 M is begun in 1975 by a series of contractors, calling many machines out of desert storage as well as later pulling active machines into the cycle. The outer wing panels, the outermost 60 percent are replaced with composite formed wings with thinner cross-section. The embedded and underslung engines are all removed in favor of top mounted podded high bypass turbofans as used in the 747 and DC-10, the wing edge inlets are capped and the short tail fins are replaced with wingtip fins. The cockpit is given a raised profile deck using the pending B2 design and the instruments are all-digital and mostly CRT display. The original "Northrop's wonder" is ready for one more turn at the skies and perhaps an even earlier end of the cold war impasse. Model is a card model scratchbuilt project and it was in fact converted from a YB-49A model when a resin kit of the earlier machine was now available and built- I seldom throw models away.
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bagera3005's avatar
been thinking about doing that but using b-1b cockpit an f-16 engines in blueprints