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The Northrop Corporation was a leading aircraft manufacturer of the United States. Image File history File links Northrop_logo. ...
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Jack Northrop founded three companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation in 1927, which was absorbed in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation as a subsidiary named "Northrop Aviation Corporation". The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas (of Douglas Aircraft Company fame), established a "Northrop Corporation" located in El Segundo, California, which produced several successful designs, including the Northrop Gamma and Northrop Delta. However, labor difficulties led to the dissolution of the corporation by Douglas in 1937, and the plant became the El Segundo Division of Douglas Aircraft. John Knudsen Jack Northrop (1895 - 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist. ...
1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Official language(s) none Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area Ranked 15th - Total 82,277 sq mi (213,096 km²) - Width 211 miles (340 km) - Length 417 miles (645 km) - % water 0. ...
Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...
Donald Wills Douglas may be: Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. ...
The Douglas Aircraft Company was founded by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. ...
The El Segundo skyline, as seen from Sepulveda Boulevard (CA/SR-1) El Segundo is a city in Los Angeles County, California on the Santa Monica Bay, incorporated on January 18, 1917. ...
Northrop Gamma was a single-engine all-metal monoplane cargo aircraft used in the 1930s. ...
Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Northrop still wanted his own company, and so in 1939 established the "Northrop Corporation" that lasted until 1994. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
In 1994, partly due to the loss of the Advanced Tactical Fighter contract to Lockheed Martin and the removal of their proposal from consideration for the Joint Strike Fighter competition, the company merged with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman. Lockheed/BAE/Northrop F-35 Lockheed Trident missile C-130 Hercules; in production since the 1950s, now as the C-130J Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is an aerospace manufacturer formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. ...
Boeing X-32 (left) and Lockheed Martin X-35 prior to down-select in 2001, where the X-35 was chosen. ...
The Grumman logo The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading producer of military and civilian aircraft of the 20th century. ...
The Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of a 1994 merger between Northrop and Grumman. ...
The company was notable in the 1940s for experimentation with flying wings; although a number of designs were flight-tested, only the B-2 stealth bomber of the 1980s ever made it to production and deployment. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ...
A Northrop YB-49 flying wing. ...
The B-2 Spirit, made by Northrop Grumman, is an multi-role stealth aircraft able to drop conventional and nuclear weapons. ...
The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ...
v • d • e Northrop aircraft Fighters: FT · XP-56 · P-61 · F2T · XP-79 · F-89 · F-5 · CF-116 · YF-17 · F-18L · F-20 · YF-23 The Northrop A-17 was a two seat, single engine, monoplane, attack bomber built in 1935 by the Northrop Corporation for the US Army Air Corps. ...
The XP-56 Black Bullet was a unique prototype fighter interceptor built by Northrop. ...
The Northrop P-61 Black Widow was an all-metal, twin-engine, twin-boom, monoplane night fighter and night intruder aircraft flown by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. It was the first American aircraft designed specifically as a radar-equipped night fighter. ...
The Northrop P-61 Black Widow was an all-metal, twin-engine, twin-boom, monoplane night fighter and night intruder aircraft flown by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. It was the first American aircraft designed specifically as a radar-equipped night fighter. ...
The Northrop XP-79 Flying Ram was an ambitious design for a flying wing fighter aircraft; it had several notable design features. ...
The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was an early American jet-powered all-weather interceptor. ...
The F-5 Freedom Fighter (or Tiger II) is a fighter aircraft, designed and built by Northrop in the USA, beginning in 1962. ...
The CF-116 Freedom Fighter was an aircraft flown by the Canadian Forces based on the American F-5 Freedom Fighter. ...
The Northrop YF-17 Cobra was a prototype lightweight day fighter aircraft designed for the U.S. Air Forces Light Weight Fighter (LWF) technology evaluation program. ...
An F/A-18 taking off from USS Kitty Hawk The Boeing (formerly McDonnell Douglas) F/A-18 Hornet is a modern all-weather carrier-capable strike fighter jet, designed to attack both ground and aerial targets. ...
The Northrop F-20 Tigershark (initially F-5G) was a privately financed fighter aircraft, designed and built by Northrop in the USA, starting in 1975 and offered for sale starting in the 1980s and formally ending in the early 1990s. ...
The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 Black Widow II â unofficially named by Northrop after its P-61 Black Widow â was a prototype fighter aircraft designed for the United States Air Force. ...
Attack: YA-13 · XA-16 · A-17 · BT · SBT · YA-9 - Bombers: YB-35 · B2T · YB-49 · B-62 · B-2 The YA-13 was an attack version of the Northrop Gamma 2 type aircraft. ...
The XA-16 was a redesignated Northrop YA-13 following an engine change. ...
The Northrop A-17 was a two seat, single engine, monoplane, attack bomber built in 1935 by the Northrop Corporation for the US Army Air Corps. ...
The Northrop BT was a two seat, single engine, monoplane, dive bomber built by the Northrop Corporation for the US Navy. ...
The Northrop YA-9 was a prototype attack aircraft developed for the USAF, but passed over in preference for the Fairchild YA-10 that became the A-10 Thunderbolt II in service. ...
The Northrop YB-35 (Northrop NS-9) was an experimental heavy bomber aircraft. ...
The Northrop YB-35 (Northrop NS-9) was an experimental heavy bomber aircraft. ...
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Snark missile launch The Northrop SM-62 Snark was a specialised intercontinental missile with a nuclear warhead briefly operated by the US Strategic Air Command from 1958 until 1961. ...
The B-2 Spirit, made by Northrop Grumman, is an multi-role stealth aircraft able to drop conventional and nuclear weapons. ...
Transports: Alpha · C-19 · Beta · C-100 Gamma · RT Delta · YC-125 Northrop Alpha was an American single-engine monoplane fast mail/passenger transport aircraft used in the 1930s. ...
The Northrop C-19 Alpha was a series of three aircraft purchased from Northrop by the US Army Air Corps in 1931. ...
Northrop Gamma was a single-engine all-metal monoplane cargo aircraft used in the 1930s. ...
Reconnaissance: F-15 · RF-5 · TR-3 - Trainers: T-38 The Northrop P-61 Black Widow was an all-metal, twin-engine, twin-boom, monoplane night fighter and night intruder aircraft flown by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. It was the first American aircraft designed specifically as a radar-equipped night fighter. ...
The F-5 Freedom Fighter (or Tiger II) is a fighter aircraft, designed and built by Northrop in the USA, beginning in 1962. ...
The TR-3A Black Manta is reputedly a United States Air Force spyplane. ...
The Northrop T-38 Talon is a US-built supersonic jet trainer for military pilots and NASA astronauts. ...
Experimental: N-1M · N-9M · MX-324 · X-4 · M2-F2 · M2-F3 · HL-10 · Tacit Blue · X-21 The Northrop N-1M was an early flying wing aircraft, predecessor to the Northrop N-9M and Northrop YB-35. ...
The Northrop N-9M was a one-third scale development aircraft for the Northrop B-35 flying wing bomber. ...
The Northrop X-4 Bantam was a small twin-jet airplane that had no horizontal tail surfaces, depending instead on combined elevator and aileron control surfaces (called elevons) for control in pitch and roll attitudes. ...
NASA M2-F2 Lifting Body The Northrop M2-F2 was a heavyweight lifting body based on studies at NASAs Ames and Langley research centers. ...
The Northrop M2-F3 was rebuilt from the M2-F2 at Northrop and redesignated the M2-F3 after the M2-F2 crashed at Dryden in 1967. ...
The Northrop HL-10 was one of five heavyweight lifting body designs flown at NASAs Flight Research Center (FRC--later Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, from July 1966 to November 1975 to study and validate the concept of safely maneuvering and landing a low lift-over-drag vehicle...
The Northrop Tacit Blue was a technology demonstrator aircraft created to demonstrate that a stealth low observable surveillance aircraft with a low probability of intercept radar and other sensors could operate close to the forward line of battle with a high degree of survivability. ...
The Northrop X-21 was an experimental aircraft designed to test wings with laminar flow control. ...
Timeline of aviation Aircraft · Aircraft manufacturers · Aircraft engines · Aircraft engine manufacturers · Airports · Airlines Air forces · Aircraft weapons · Missiles · Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) · Experimental aircraft Notable military accidents and incidents · Notable airline accidents and incidents · Famous aviation-related deaths Flight airspeed record · Flight distance record · Flight altitude record · Flight endurance record · Most produced aircraft Aviation refers to flying using aircraft, machines designed by humans for atmospheric flight. ...
This is a timeline of aviation history. ...
This list of aircraft is sorted alphabetically, beginning with the name of the manufacturer (or, in certain cases, designer). ...
This is a list of aircraft manufacturers (in alphabetic order). ...
List of aircraft engines: // Allison V-1710 Alvis Alcides Alvis Leonides Alvis Leonides Major Alvis Maenoides Alvis Pelides Armstrong Siddeley Leopard Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar Armstrong Siddeley Panther Armstrong Siddeley Mongoose Armstrong Siddeley Puma Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah Armstrong Siddeley Nimbus Beardmore Bentley BR1 Rotary BMW 132 BMW 139 BMW 801 Bramo...
This is a list of aircraft engine manufacturers both past and present. ...
This is a list of airlines in operation (by continents and country). ...
This is a list of Air forces, sorted alphabetically by country. ...
This is an incomplete list of aircraft weapons, past and present. ...
Below is a list of (links to pages on) missiles, sorted alphabetically by name. ...
A Boeing 720 being flown under remote control as part of NASAs Controlled Impact Demonstration The following is a list of Unmanned aerial vehicles developed and operated by various countries around the world. ...
This is a list of experimental aircraft. ...
This is a list of notable incidents and accidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. ...
// Accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. ...
This is a list of some well-known people who have died in aviation-related events. ...
The worlds fastest aircraft, the SR-71 Blackbird. ...
Flight distance records without refueling. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with List of altitude records reached by different aircraft types. ...
The flight endurance record is the amount of time spent in the air. ...
Aircraft with a production run greater than 5,000 aircraft. ...
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