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Meet Northrop's XST, The Plane That Lost Out To The Original Stealth Jet
Meet Northrop's XST, The Plane That Lost Out To The Original Stealth Jet

Interestingly, years after the XST competition concluded, Northrop’s non-faceted design philosophy seems much more ahead of its time than the Lockheed faceted approach, especially when you consider that second and third generation stealth aircraft and unmanned systems have much more in common with Northrop’s XST design than Lockheed’s XST design.