![]() Jack Northrop, founder of Northrop, had been playing with the concept of flying wings during the 1930s and 1940s and eventually produced the N-1M and N-9M designs while the proposed XP-79 fell to naught. The remains of the project fell to the to the Americans in the immediate post-war period and ended its days in museum storage. However only three of the type were completed after a first flight on March 1st, 1944. The most famous of these wartime models became the German Horten Ho 229 (detailed elsewhere on this site) which utilized an early form of stealth and was jet-powered to boot. I'm wondering if you could fit a set of quality Jap forks to this thing.The concept of the flying wing bomber had been on the minds of aeronautical engineers for quite some time before the forms of World War 2 (1939-1945) had made their presence known. It's less than adequate, and when you throw it over a table top, your neck gets a beating when the front wheel smashes into the guard. The only problem is the front suspension travel. Yes there will be those nay sayers here who will say it was because the other 3 guys could not ride, but I can tell you they were not too bad and the fact my $2000 chinese bike left their 4x more expensive 2 stroke rockets behind shows the Xb_35 is not a bad bike at all and a bargain for the price. I was riding with kids less than half my age 2 on KX 125cc bikes 1 on a CR 125 and one on a KTM 400 something. Within 3 laps I was giving the poor little XB-35 250cc 4-banger the thrashing of it's life. It's amazing how much your brain remembers and how it can recall the information after so many years. I was out at the track yesterday and the lure of the Moto X track was just too much and I decided just to do a couple of slow laps. After 25 years off a bike I didnt think I would remember a thing about riding hard. When my son decided to switch from racing karts to Moto X I decided to go cheap because my original plan was to just plonk around a few trails and watch and help my son learn the skills. I raced Moto X alot when I was younger but im now in my early 40s. We went through this when my son was racing karts and people started heaping crap on chinese karts even though no one had actually seen one. It's funny how people know so much about a bike they have never seen or ridden. ![]() Ok thought I would resurect this thread because it has lots of intersting info and it's where I did most of my homework before buying an Xb-35.įirst of all I have to laugh at some of the negative, ill informed comments about the xB-35. ![]()
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