On this day in aviation history, December 15, 1948, the small, white, tailless airplane rose from the Rogers Dry Lakebed into the desert skies of California. It was the Northrop X-4 Bantam, the fourth ...
On this day in aviation history, 78 years ago (October 21, 1947), the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing made its first flight. Designed and built by the American aerospace company Northrop, the YB-49 was a ...