Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 Flying Wing

**gwpriester** · 08 July 2011, 06:08 PM

Impressive and well done.

**a4hire** · 09 July 2011, 02:57 PM

Beautiful work Gray! Very realistic looking.

**gray** · 09 July 2011, 03:44 PM

Thanks so much Gary, Bruce.

**pauland** · 09 July 2011, 04:23 PM

I love flying wings - great job Gary, I'd never heard about this one.

Coco mentioned German efforts - there was a fantastic programme about this one: http://www.aerospacemuseum.org/colle...item.php?id=28

**gray** · 09 July 2011, 11:09 PM

Thanks, Paul.
I saw that show on the Horten flying wing. Apparently it flew very well. The Germans were planning on building a larger 4 engine version to enable them to drop their atomic bomb on London and New York in 1946. It also had a small radar signature.

**Biggy Rat** · 10 July 2011, 11:31 PM

Another sterling effort there Gray!

I haven't looked this one up but was wondering what sort of armament it would have had, or was it primarily a Bomber? Also, do you think they understood the benefits of the small radar signature as we do today? (Not trying to sell them short mind you...)

**gray** · 10 July 2011, 11:46 PM

Thanks so much, BR.
It was to be a medium range bomber and was a research project into laminar flow wings and boundary layer control. Although Britain was a world leader in radar in the 40's I haven't read anything about this plane being involved in research on reducing it's footprint. The 40's and 50's were such creative times for flight.