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<deleted content> Your recollections are spot-on. :D I've read the SACs and flight documentation on both the YB-35 and the RB-49, (the SACs are included in US Strategic Bombers 1945 - 2012 published by Defense Lion Publications) and both aircraft had very unpleasant flying characteristics...

That's good to know. There are a lot of other out-of-print books though that really cost eye-watering amounts of money.

Mon Capitaine, might that not be a good idea for a service here? People who want but don't have specific books could list what they want and people who have but don't want or can get them can get in touch.

I believe this is the Vickers Victory Bomber Type C.2 dating from 1943. This originated from a pre-war Barnes Wallis proposal for the 10-ton Grand Slam bomb and an aircraft to carry it to Germany. The original Victory Bombers were quite conventional but as knowledge of the German defenses...

According to information obtained by "National Technical Assets", it was the cruise missile. not the torpedo. Something like this, we really don't need the Russians to release information, we can get it for ourselves. In this case, I would ***guess*** the "asset" in question was a recon bird...

There's a webpage that has details of some proposed Japanese aircraft that were under development at the end of WW2. Hikoki:1946, I don't think the Japanese projects were as completely nuts as the German ones though.