[ACE-OF-ACES]

That's true but even though Northrop was experimenting with flying wings before WWII, we on the Internet know all aeronautical advances owe their existence to German aviation from the war years. Perhaps Northrop merely copied them from his future. Maybe he got a hold of a German time machine and traveled back to the future in a Mercedes Benz with der kaput kapacitor?

ROTFL!

You had me going there for a sec!