{"id":99283,"date":"2024-08-02T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/huge-mighty-grounded-ww2-northrop-yb-35-flying-wing\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T23:00:11","slug":"the-huge-the-mighty-the-grounded-the-ww2-northrop-yb-35-flying-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=99283","title":{"rendered":"The Huge, The Mighty, The Grounded The WW2 Northrop YB-35 Flying Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    When one thinks of &#8220;flying wing&#8221; military aircraft, chances are <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-2-billion-b-2-spirt-stealth-bomber-too-pricey-to-fix\/\">Northrop&#8217;s B-2 Spirit <\/a>(the original &#8220;Stealth Bomber&#8221;) comes to mind, as do the upcoming<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-clears-higher-price-tag-northop-grumman-b-21-bombers\/\" > Northrop Grumman B-21 &#8220;Raider&#8221; <\/a>and the<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/china-h-20-stealth-bomber-update\/\" > Red Chinese X-20<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before Northrop succeeded with the B-2 Spirit, it had the YB-35 Flying Wing. What went wrong with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,8977,8411,408,412,915,1384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-cold-war","category-flying-wing","category-history","category-military","category-northrop-grumman","category-us-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99284,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99283\/revisions\/99284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}