America's Strangest Bomber Experiment- Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1

After experiencing the horrors of World War 1 firsthand, a brave Lieutenant General defied the United States Army and set out to create his own aviation project: the Experimental Night Bomber Long Range.

The Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1, commonly known as the Barling Bomber, was the largest aircraft ever built back then and ended up winning several impressive world records.

The product of idealistic passions, this behemoth of an aircraft exceeded the technological realities of the 1920s and was the face of a political storm that surrounded the future of America's military might after the war.

It was also one of America's strangest long-range bomber experiments ever built.
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