Remember the Stranger

Jack Northrop, the founder of Northrop Aircraft Inc. and the manufacturer of the YB-49 in the 1947 Wright Brothers Lecture delivered to the Royal Aeronautical Society on Flying Wings stated the YB-49 should not be stalled.
In January 1948 airforce test pilot Major Bob Cardenas stalled the YB-49 and dropped toward earth at a rate of 5,ooo ft. per minute. Miraculously he recovered. He said a placard should be placed on the instrument panel warning pilots to not stall the plane which was agreed to.
In June 1948 Captain Glen W. Edwards, Major Daniel M. Forbes, Jr., 1 Lt. Edward L. Swindell, Civilian Clare C. Lesser, and Civilian C. H. LaFountain took the YB-49 up with the intent to stall the YB-49 at 15,000 ft. "The test profile called for...low power stalls, with an option for high power stalls if the low power ones were satisfactory." N-1 to B-2: Fifty Years Of Flight-Testing Northrop's Flying Wings, Bill Flanagan, Northrop Grumman, B-2 Flight Test WSO
The stall tests were not sucessful and two airforce test pilots, one of whom was Major Bob Cardenas, saw the plane spiraling straight down toward earth and the ensuing smoke column from the crash.
I asked the navy seal commander mentioned in my last post if he thought Captain Edwards was ordered to stall the YB-49 and his answer was yes.
Is the U.S. Airforce responsible for the deaths of Captain Glen W. Edwards, Major Daniel M. Forbes, Jr., 1 Lt. Edward L. Swindell, Civilian Clare C. Lesser, and Civilian C. H. LaFountain? You Decide!