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  • Northrop Once Built Planes That Were Just Giant Wings

    Northrop Once Built Planes That Were Just Giant Wings

    After World War II, the future of commercial air travel was supposed to be fantastic. There were promises that planes like Northrop Grumman’s flying wing would become the norm for civilian flying. These promises were often made to Baby Boomers — young, impressionable kids of the 1950s and ’60s — like in this cutaway drawing…