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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: YF-22 vs. YF-23, Why?
Summary: B-49 had good handling characteristics ?!?
Message-ID: <1991May24.030604.9489@amd.com>
Date: 23 May 91 17:06:17 GMT
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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov


wb9omc@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick) writes...
>	While the B36 wasn't the worst plane in the world, quite a
>few authors claim that the B49 would have been a better plane from
>several viewpoints, not the least of which were handling characteristics,

Hmm.  Could you provide references?  What I heard was that the B-49 was 
killed in part because of controllability problems.  I also recall a 
perhaps apocryphal story that, when a prototype nosed over after landing 
and caught fire, the by-then-disgusted pilot tried to dissuade the 
firemen from extinguishing the wretched aircraft.

Your statements about "sabotage" in the B-49 program are also quite
provocative and, if true, would be interesting to hear in further detail.

--Joe