N-1M aka N-306 Flying Wing Test Flight (post 03Jul41)
Baker Dry Lake, California
Flying Wing (NX28311) take off with two pusher propellers from dry lake bed. circles and flys overhead, lands past camera. Rolls to stop in front of John “Jack” Northrop & ?? Pilot Moye Stephens (second test pilot after Vance Breese) removes plexiglass cockpit. Northrop & Stephens w/ papers & pose in front of plane.
05:42:21 CU of Jack Northrop.
05:42:38 CU of nose landing gear, air intakes, flaps moving
05:43:00 Northrop at prop, turning as pilot into plane and cockpit cover put over; spectators watch from side in winter coats. Propellors turned and started, plane taxiis away, turns and taxiis away from camera.
05:44:50 Take off past camera, into air and retracts landing gear. See overhead banking and rolling, turning gracefully. Another plane seen above.
05:46:36 Aerial view from plane alongside.
05:47:31 N-1M comes in for smooth landing. Taxiis up to camera. Another take off, various fly-bys & shot from air of plane banking. Taxiing & turning on ground
Experimental Aircraft; Airplanes; UFOs; Unidentified Flying Objects; Flying Saucers; Inventions; Oddities; Inventors; 1940s;
NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Only 1 plane was built; was predecessor to much larger YB-35 & YB-49 aircraft.
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N-1M aka N-306 Flying Wing Test Flight (post 03Jul41) Baker Dry Lake, California Flying Wing (NX28311) take off with two pusher propellers from dry lake bed. circles and flys overhead, lands past camera. Rolls to stop in front of John “Jack” Northrop & ?? Pilot Moye Stephens (second test pilot after Vance Breese) removes plexiglass cockpit. Northrop & Stephens w/ papers & pose in front of plane. 05:42:21 CU of Jack Northrop. 05:42:38 CU of nose landing gear, air intakes, flaps moving 05:43:00 Northrop at prop, turning as pilot into plane and cockpit cover put over; spectators watch from side in winter coats. Propellors turned and started, plane taxiis away, turns and taxiis away from camera. 05:44:50 Take off past camera, into air and retracts landing gear. See overhead banking and rolling, turning gracefully. Another plane seen above. 05:46:36 Aerial view from plane alongside. 05:47:31 N-1M comes in for smooth landing. Taxiis up to camera. Another take off, various fly-bys & shot from air of plane banking. Taxiing & turning on ground Experimental Aircraft; Airplanes; UFOs; Unidentified Flying Objects; Flying Saucers; Inventions; Oddities; Inventors; 1940s; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Only 1 plane was built; was predecessor to much larger YB-35 & YB-49 aircraft.