From The Depths

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Experimental - Northrop X/YB-35
   
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Experimental - Northrop X/YB-35

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The Northrop YB-35, Northrop designation N-9 or NS-9, was an experimental heavy bomber aircraft developed by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Army Air Forces during and shortly after World War II. The airplane used the radical and potentially very efficient flying wing design, in which the tail section and fuselage are eliminated and all payload is carried in a thick wing. Only prototypes and pre-production aircraft were built, although interest remained strong enough to warrant further development of the design as a jet bomber, under the designation YB-49.
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(This project was the opportunity to see until where the game goes in aerodynamics. Unfortunately, artificially made drag, used for the flying wings yaw, isn't present, so I had to cheat:
-Rudders integrated in the engine pods
-External props configurated for yawing in addition with propulsion
-Same with small custom jets added in the tip of the wings.
I've chosen the single props version for power save reason.
Flies pretty well and rather fast for a plane of this size, but of course don't expect it to be a dogfighter. It's a strategic bomber after all!
Since carpet bombing isn't a thing either in FtD, I let you discover how bombs of this thing work -and how their number saturates enemy's anti-projectile defense-. ^^
The turrets could be better but they're made for self-defense, not for attack.
Historically, the tail was supposed to have the same guns as the turrets but I didn't have enough space to have them the same specs, so I replaced them by missiles.)