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Howard in reply to @vilms5000

Nah that's cool. My original questions was kinda flippant too.

I'm just going to assume that - at the time - a normal design couldn't meet the speed / range / radar visibility requirements and the computer power was available to iron out the weirdness in flight.

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vilms5000 in reply to @Howard

Yes, the 1940s wing was -ultimately- defeated by the lack of supporting technology (there is also some tinfoil-hattery related to its demise because of ‘gubmint’ > palm-greasing > sabotage).
Every 35/49 airframe was destroyed, so we won’t ever see it and the B-2 on the same flight line.

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