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Jack Northrop
John Knudsen "Jack" Northrop (November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer, who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939.
His career began in 1916 as a draftsman for Lockheed Aircraft Manufacturing Company (founded 1912). He joined the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1923, where in time he became a project engineer. In 1927 he rejoined Lockheed, where he was a chief engineer on the Lockheed Vega transport. He left in 1929 to found Avion Corporation, which he sold in 1930. Two years later he founded the Northrop Corporation. This firm became a subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft in 1939, so he co-founded a second company named Northrop.
Entering aviation
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Northrop grew up in Santa Barbara, California. In 1916 Northrop's first job in aviation was in working as a draftsman for Lockheed Aircraft Manufacturing Company, founded in 1912 by the Loughead brothers (Allan and Malcolm Loughead). In 1923, Northrop joined Douglas Aircraft Company, participating in the design of the Douglas Round-the-World-Cruiser and working up to project engineer. In early 1927, Northrop assisted Jack Ryan of Ryan Aircraft in the larger wing design used on Lindbergh's plane "The Spirit of St Louis" that would later make the New York to Paris flight in May 1927.
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Northrop | Aviation Pioneer And American Industrialist | Upscaled Original Documentary
Jack Northrop (John Knudsen Northrop), the aviation pioneer and American industrialist founded 3 companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation in 1928, which was absorbed in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation[2] as a subsidiary named "Northrop Aircraft Corporation" (and later became part of Boeing).[3] The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas, 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.[4] Northrop still sought his own company,...
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The History Of The Flying Wing And U.S. Bomber Aircraft. Jack Northrop's Dream
Learn about Jack Northrop's flying wing, its evolution, and its competitors. Jack Northrop's brainchild lost out to the B-36 after World War II, but the low radar profile of the flying wing design made a comeback decades later in the form of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses. Designed during the Cold War, it is a flying wing design with a crew of two. The bomber is subsonic and can deploy both conventional and thermonuclear weapons, such as up to eighty 500-pound class (230 kg) Mk 82 JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear bombs. The B-2 is the ...
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F-0471 Jack Northrop Designer
Biography of the founder of Northrop Aircraft. From the archives of the San Diego Air and Space Museum http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/re... Please do not use for commercial purposes without permission
published: 28 Feb 2013 -
What Happened To Flying Wings?
Watch 'Tip of the Spear: The B-2 Spirit' here: https://nebula.tv/videos/mustard-tip-of-the-spear-the-b-2-spirit Watch More Mustard Videos & Support The Channel: https://nebula.tv/mustard Support Mustard on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MustardChannel Mustard Store: https://www.teespring.com/stores/mustard-store Website: https://www.mustardchannel.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MustardVideos Thanks to Azzecco for producing the incredible XB-35 and YB-49 modes used in this video, visit: https://www.artstation.com/acez3d At the start of the 1940’s, flying wing aircraft seemed destined to be the next evolution in aircraft design. By eliminating structural components typically found on conventional aircraft, such as engine nacelles, fuselage and tail, parasitic drag would be reduced ...
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Crafting History – John Cashen, B-2 Designer
Here’s what happened when the B-2 was unveiled to one of the founders of Northrop Grumman, Jack Northrop. See more Crafting History at: http://www.northropgrumman.com/craftinghistory #NorthropGrumman #B2Spirit
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Crafting History – B-2 Beginnings
After designing a plane with no tail or fuselage, two of its builders look back at their time creating a revolutionary aircraft no one thought was possible. See more Crafting History at: http://www.northropgrumman.com/craftinghistory #NorthropGrumman #B2Spirit
published: 22 Oct 2018 -
A Tribute to Jack Northrop and His Flying Wings
Roy Wolford shares stories, photographs, and videos from his 61 years with Northrop, including 40 years as photo department manager. He flew in chase aircraft to photographically many historical test flights. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org
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Flying Wings - John K. Northrop's Final Interview - 1979
No copyright infringement intended. Please contact me directly, and I will remove the film. This ultra-rare documentary from 1979 has never been released on home video in any format, and hasn't been on PBS TV since 1980. Includes John K. Northrop's final interview. Also included are test pilots Max Stanley & Robert Cardenas. Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! "The Boxart Den" World's largest display & collection of FULLY RESTORED rare & collectable model kit box art http://boxartden.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Box-Art http://www.facebook.com/craviola990 http://www.youtube.com/mcdonnell220
published: 03 Jun 2013 -
The Jack Northrop Saga
A short history of John K. "Jack" Northrop founder of Northrop Aviation and inventor of the Flying Wing.
published: 16 Feb 2019 -
Hawthorne City Walk: Jack Northrop
Looking for a good walk around Hawthorne? Hawthorne City Walk is a brand new segment that will take you to different trails within the city while learning fun facts many residents don't know about. In this segment, we take you on a 1 mile walk behind the Hawthorne airport on a street named Jack Northrop Ave.
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Northrop | Aviation Pioneer And American Industrialist | Upscaled Original Documentary
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Jack Northrop (John Knudsen Northrop), the aviation pioneer and American industrialist founded 3 companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation i...
Jack Northrop (John Knudsen Northrop), the aviation pioneer and American industrialist founded 3 companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation in 1928, which was absorbed in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation[2] as a subsidiary named "Northrop Aircraft Corporation" (and later became part of Boeing).[3] The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas, 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.[4]
Northrop still sought his own company, and so in 1939 he established the "Northrop Corporation" in nearby Hawthorne, California, a site located by co-founder Moye Stephens. The corporation ranked 100th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.[5] It was there that the P-61 Black Widow night fighter, the B-35 and YB-49 experimental flying wing bombers, the F-89 Scorpion interceptor, the SM-62 Snark intercontinental cruise missile, and the F-5 Freedom Fighter economical jet fighter (and its derivative, the successful T-38 Talon trainer) were developed and built.[1]
Northrop Corporation wordmark from 1960
The F-5 was so successful that Northrop spent much of the 1970s and 1980s attempting to duplicate its success with similar lightweight designs. Their first attempt to improve the F-5 was the N-300, which featured much more powerful engines and moved the wing to a higher position to allow for increased ordnance that the higher power allowed. The N-300 was further developed into the P-530 with even larger engines, this time featuring a small amount of "bypass" (turbofan) to improve cooling and allow the engine bay to be lighter, as well as much more wing surface. The P-530 also included radar and other systems considered necessary on modern aircraft. When the Light Weight Fighter program was announced, the P-530 was stripped of much of its equipment to become the P-600, and eventually the YF-17 Cobra, which lost the competition to the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Nevertheless, the YF-17 Cobra was modified with help from McDonnell Douglas to become the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet in order to fill a similar lightweight design competition for the US Navy. Northrop intended to sell a de-navalized version as the F-18L, but the basic F-18A continued to outsell it, leading to a long and fruitless lawsuit between the two companies. Northrop continued to build much of the F-18 fuselage and other systems after this period, but also returned to the original F-5 design with yet another new engine to produce the F-20 Tigershark as a low-cost aircraft. This garnered little interest in the market, and the project was dropped.
In 1994, partly due to the loss of the Advanced Tactical Fighter contract to Lockheed Corporation and the removal of their proposal from consideration for the Joint Strike Fighter competition, the company bought Grumman to form Northrop Grumman.
Aircraft:
Northrop Alpha Single-engine transport
Northrop C-19 Alpha Single-engine transport
Northrop Beta Single-engine sport airplane
Northrop Gamma Single-engine transport
Northrop Delta Single-engine transport, 19 additional aircraft built by Canadian Vickers
Northrop XFT Prototype naval fighter
Northrop YA-13 Prototype attack aircraft
Northrop A-17/Nomad Attack/light bomber
Northrop BT Dive bomber
Northrop N-1M Experimental flying wing
Northrop N-3PB Floatplane patrol bomber
Northrop P-61 Black Widow Night fighter
Northrop N-9M Experimental scale flying wing proof of concept for B-35
Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet Prototype tailless fighter
Northrop F-15 Reporter Reconnaissance aircraft based on P-61
Northrop XP-79 Prototype jet flying wing fighter
Northrop YB-35 Prototype strategic bomber
Northrop Pioneer Trimotor transport
Northrop YB-49 Prototype eight-jet-engine strategic bomber
Northrop F-89 Scorpion Interceptor
Northrop X-4 Bantam Experimental trans-sonic tailless aircraft
Northrop YC-125 Raider Trimotor transport
Northrop F-5 Lightweight fighter
Northrop T-38 Talon Advanced trainer
Northrop X-21 Experimental boundary layer control aircraft
Northrop M2-F2 Experimental rocket powered lifting body
Northrop HL-10 Experimental rocket lifting body
Northrop M2-F3 Experimental rocket lifting body
Northrop YA-9 Prototype attack aircraft
Northrop YF-17 Prototype fighter, led to F/A-18
Northrop Tacit Blue Experimental stealth aircraft
Northrop F-20 Tigershark Prototype lightweight fighter derived from F-5
Northrop B-2 Spirit Strategic stealth bomber
Northrop YF-23 Prototype stealth fighter
Low Res Footage courtesy of the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives
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Jack Northrop (John Knudsen Northrop), the aviation pioneer and American industrialist founded 3 companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation in 1928, which was absorbed in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation[2] as a subsidiary named "Northrop Aircraft Corporation" (and later became part of Boeing).[3] The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas, 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.[4]
Northrop still sought his own company, and so in 1939 he established the "Northrop Corporation" in nearby Hawthorne, California, a site located by co-founder Moye Stephens. The corporation ranked 100th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.[5] It was there that the P-61 Black Widow night fighter, the B-35 and YB-49 experimental flying wing bombers, the F-89 Scorpion interceptor, the SM-62 Snark intercontinental cruise missile, and the F-5 Freedom Fighter economical jet fighter (and its derivative, the successful T-38 Talon trainer) were developed and built.[1]
Northrop Corporation wordmark from 1960
The F-5 was so successful that Northrop spent much of the 1970s and 1980s attempting to duplicate its success with similar lightweight designs. Their first attempt to improve the F-5 was the N-300, which featured much more powerful engines and moved the wing to a higher position to allow for increased ordnance that the higher power allowed. The N-300 was further developed into the P-530 with even larger engines, this time featuring a small amount of "bypass" (turbofan) to improve cooling and allow the engine bay to be lighter, as well as much more wing surface. The P-530 also included radar and other systems considered necessary on modern aircraft. When the Light Weight Fighter program was announced, the P-530 was stripped of much of its equipment to become the P-600, and eventually the YF-17 Cobra, which lost the competition to the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Nevertheless, the YF-17 Cobra was modified with help from McDonnell Douglas to become the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet in order to fill a similar lightweight design competition for the US Navy. Northrop intended to sell a de-navalized version as the F-18L, but the basic F-18A continued to outsell it, leading to a long and fruitless lawsuit between the two companies. Northrop continued to build much of the F-18 fuselage and other systems after this period, but also returned to the original F-5 design with yet another new engine to produce the F-20 Tigershark as a low-cost aircraft. This garnered little interest in the market, and the project was dropped.
In 1994, partly due to the loss of the Advanced Tactical Fighter contract to Lockheed Corporation and the removal of their proposal from consideration for the Joint Strike Fighter competition, the company bought Grumman to form Northrop Grumman.
Aircraft:
Northrop Alpha Single-engine transport
Northrop C-19 Alpha Single-engine transport
Northrop Beta Single-engine sport airplane
Northrop Gamma Single-engine transport
Northrop Delta Single-engine transport, 19 additional aircraft built by Canadian Vickers
Northrop XFT Prototype naval fighter
Northrop YA-13 Prototype attack aircraft
Northrop A-17/Nomad Attack/light bomber
Northrop BT Dive bomber
Northrop N-1M Experimental flying wing
Northrop N-3PB Floatplane patrol bomber
Northrop P-61 Black Widow Night fighter
Northrop N-9M Experimental scale flying wing proof of concept for B-35
Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet Prototype tailless fighter
Northrop F-15 Reporter Reconnaissance aircraft based on P-61
Northrop XP-79 Prototype jet flying wing fighter
Northrop YB-35 Prototype strategic bomber
Northrop Pioneer Trimotor transport
Northrop YB-49 Prototype eight-jet-engine strategic bomber
Northrop F-89 Scorpion Interceptor
Northrop X-4 Bantam Experimental trans-sonic tailless aircraft
Northrop YC-125 Raider Trimotor transport
Northrop F-5 Lightweight fighter
Northrop T-38 Talon Advanced trainer
Northrop X-21 Experimental boundary layer control aircraft
Northrop M2-F2 Experimental rocket powered lifting body
Northrop HL-10 Experimental rocket lifting body
Northrop M2-F3 Experimental rocket lifting body
Northrop YA-9 Prototype attack aircraft
Northrop YF-17 Prototype fighter, led to F/A-18
Northrop Tacit Blue Experimental stealth aircraft
Northrop F-20 Tigershark Prototype lightweight fighter derived from F-5
Northrop B-2 Spirit Strategic stealth bomber
Northrop YF-23 Prototype stealth fighter
Low Res Footage courtesy of the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives
#northrop #aircraft #pioneer
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The History Of The Flying Wing And U.S. Bomber Aircraft. Jack Northrop's Dream
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Learn about Jack Northrop's flying wing, its evolution, and its competitors.
Jack Northrop's brainchild lost out to the B-36 after World War II, but the low rad...
Learn about Jack Northrop's flying wing, its evolution, and its competitors.
Jack Northrop's brainchild lost out to the B-36 after World War II, but the low radar profile of the flying wing design made a comeback decades later in the form of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.
The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses. Designed during the Cold War, it is a flying wing design with a crew of two. The bomber is subsonic and can deploy both conventional and thermonuclear weapons, such as up to eighty 500-pound class (230 kg) Mk 82 JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear bombs. The B-2 is the only acknowledged aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration.
Development started under the "Advanced Technology Bomber" (ATB) project during the Carter administration; its expected performance was one of the President's reasons for the cancellation of the Mach 2 capable B-1A bomber. The ATB project continued during the Reagan administration but worries about delays in its introduction led to the reinstatement of the B-1 program. Program costs rose throughout development. Designed and manufactured by Northrop, later Northrop Grumman, the cost of each aircraft averaged US$737 million (in 1997 dollars). Total procurement costs averaged $929 million per aircraft, which includes spare parts, equipment, retrofitting, and software support. The total program cost, which included development, engineering and testing, averaged $2.13 billion per aircraft in 1997.
Because of its considerable capital and operating costs, the project was controversial in the U.S. Congress. The winding-down of the Cold War in the latter portion of the 1980s dramatically reduced the need for the aircraft, which was designed with the intention of penetrating Soviet airspace and attacking high-value targets. During the late 1980s and 1990s, Congress slashed plans to purchase 132 bombers to 21. In 2008, a B-2 was destroyed in a crash shortly after takeoff, though the crew ejected safely. As of 2018, twenty B-2s are in service with the United States Air Force, which plans to operate them until 2032, when the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is to replace them.
The B-2 is capable of all-altitude attack missions up to 50,000 feet (15,000 m), with a range of more than 6,000 nautical miles (6,900 mi; 11,000 km) on internal fuel and over 10,000 nautical miles (12,000 mi; 19,000 km) with one midair refueling. It entered service in 1997 as the second aircraft designed to have advanced stealth technology after the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk attack aircraft. Though designed originally as primarily a nuclear bomber, the B-2 was first used in combat dropping conventional, non-nuclear ordnance in the Kosovo War in 1999. It later served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
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Learn about Jack Northrop's flying wing, its evolution, and its competitors.
Jack Northrop's brainchild lost out to the B-36 after World War II, but the low radar profile of the flying wing design made a comeback decades later in the form of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.
The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses. Designed during the Cold War, it is a flying wing design with a crew of two. The bomber is subsonic and can deploy both conventional and thermonuclear weapons, such as up to eighty 500-pound class (230 kg) Mk 82 JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear bombs. The B-2 is the only acknowledged aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration.
Development started under the "Advanced Technology Bomber" (ATB) project during the Carter administration; its expected performance was one of the President's reasons for the cancellation of the Mach 2 capable B-1A bomber. The ATB project continued during the Reagan administration but worries about delays in its introduction led to the reinstatement of the B-1 program. Program costs rose throughout development. Designed and manufactured by Northrop, later Northrop Grumman, the cost of each aircraft averaged US$737 million (in 1997 dollars). Total procurement costs averaged $929 million per aircraft, which includes spare parts, equipment, retrofitting, and software support. The total program cost, which included development, engineering and testing, averaged $2.13 billion per aircraft in 1997.
Because of its considerable capital and operating costs, the project was controversial in the U.S. Congress. The winding-down of the Cold War in the latter portion of the 1980s dramatically reduced the need for the aircraft, which was designed with the intention of penetrating Soviet airspace and attacking high-value targets. During the late 1980s and 1990s, Congress slashed plans to purchase 132 bombers to 21. In 2008, a B-2 was destroyed in a crash shortly after takeoff, though the crew ejected safely. As of 2018, twenty B-2s are in service with the United States Air Force, which plans to operate them until 2032, when the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is to replace them.
The B-2 is capable of all-altitude attack missions up to 50,000 feet (15,000 m), with a range of more than 6,000 nautical miles (6,900 mi; 11,000 km) on internal fuel and over 10,000 nautical miles (12,000 mi; 19,000 km) with one midair refueling. It entered service in 1997 as the second aircraft designed to have advanced stealth technology after the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk attack aircraft. Though designed originally as primarily a nuclear bomber, the B-2 was first used in combat dropping conventional, non-nuclear ordnance in the Kosovo War in 1999. It later served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
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21:06
F-0471 Jack Northrop Designer
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Biography of the founder of Northrop Aircraft.
From the archives of the San Diego Air and Space Museum http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/re... Please do not u...
Biography of the founder of Northrop Aircraft.
From the archives of the San Diego Air and Space Museum http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/re... Please do not use for commercial purposes without permission
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Biography of the founder of Northrop Aircraft.
From the archives of the San Diego Air and Space Museum http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/re... Please do not use for commercial purposes without permission
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13:31
What Happened To Flying Wings?
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Watch 'Tip of the Spear: The B-2 Spirit' here: https://nebula.tv/videos/mustard-tip-of-the-spear-the-b-2-spirit
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At the start of the 1940’s, flying wing aircraft seemed destined to be the next evolution in aircraft design. By eliminating structural components typically found on conventional aircraft, such as engine nacelles, fuselage and tail, parasitic drag would be reduced down to its absolute minimum. The result would be a high-lift, low-drag aircraft with unequaled speed, range and efficiency.
Despite earlier efforts around the world to develop all-wing aircraft designs, arguably no single person was more committed to the concept than pioneering American aircraft designer Jack Northrop. Beginning in the 1920’s Northrop studied the concept, drawing up countless designs for flying wing aircraft. By 1940, he had successfully produced two prototypes, the Model 1 (“X216H”) in 1929 and the Northrop N-1M in 1940. But Northrop’s ambitions went far beyond just experimental planes.
Responding to an urgent need for the United States to develop the first ever intercontinental bomber, in 1941 Northrop presented the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) with a concept for an enormous flying wing bomber that would offer unparalleled speed, range and efficiency. Not only would the aircraft far outperform conventional bombers, the all-wing design would make it structurally more simple and economical to build. Impressed with Northrop’s concept, the USAAF agreed to fund the aircraft’s development, ordering an experimental model designated as the XB-35 and pre-production models designated as YB-35s. The USAAF would eventually order over 200 production aircraft which were to be designated as B-35s. Later, a jet powered version, designated as the YB-49 would also be produced.
But engineering such unconventional aircraft would be a daunting engineering challenge for Northrop and his small team of engineers. Eliminating conventional control surfaces would maximize lift and minimize drag, but it would also create new unforeseen technical issues, many of which would only be discovered during flight testing - with tragic consequences. Despite best efforts by Northrop to solve technical issues with flying wing aircraft, solutions would prove elusive using technology available in the 1940s.
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At the start of the 1940’s, flying wing aircraft seemed destined to be the next evolution in aircraft design. By eliminating structural components typically found on conventional aircraft, such as engine nacelles, fuselage and tail, parasitic drag would be reduced down to its absolute minimum. The result would be a high-lift, low-drag aircraft with unequaled speed, range and efficiency.
Despite earlier efforts around the world to develop all-wing aircraft designs, arguably no single person was more committed to the concept than pioneering American aircraft designer Jack Northrop. Beginning in the 1920’s Northrop studied the concept, drawing up countless designs for flying wing aircraft. By 1940, he had successfully produced two prototypes, the Model 1 (“X216H”) in 1929 and the Northrop N-1M in 1940. But Northrop’s ambitions went far beyond just experimental planes.
Responding to an urgent need for the United States to develop the first ever intercontinental bomber, in 1941 Northrop presented the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) with a concept for an enormous flying wing bomber that would offer unparalleled speed, range and efficiency. Not only would the aircraft far outperform conventional bombers, the all-wing design would make it structurally more simple and economical to build. Impressed with Northrop’s concept, the USAAF agreed to fund the aircraft’s development, ordering an experimental model designated as the XB-35 and pre-production models designated as YB-35s. The USAAF would eventually order over 200 production aircraft which were to be designated as B-35s. Later, a jet powered version, designated as the YB-49 would also be produced.
But engineering such unconventional aircraft would be a daunting engineering challenge for Northrop and his small team of engineers. Eliminating conventional control surfaces would maximize lift and minimize drag, but it would also create new unforeseen technical issues, many of which would only be discovered during flight testing - with tragic consequences. Despite best efforts by Northrop to solve technical issues with flying wing aircraft, solutions would prove elusive using technology available in the 1940s.
Thanks for watching!
- published: 27 Aug 2022
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1:17
Crafting History – John Cashen, B-2 Designer
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Here’s what happened when the B-2 was unveiled to one of the founders of Northrop Grumman, Jack Northrop. See more Crafting History at: http://www.northropgrumm...
Here’s what happened when the B-2 was unveiled to one of the founders of Northrop Grumman, Jack Northrop. See more Crafting History at: http://www.northropgrumman.com/craftinghistory
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Here’s what happened when the B-2 was unveiled to one of the founders of Northrop Grumman, Jack Northrop. See more Crafting History at: http://www.northropgrumman.com/craftinghistory
#NorthropGrumman #B2Spirit
- published: 17 Sep 2018
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3:42
Crafting History – B-2 Beginnings
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After designing a plane with no tail or fuselage, two of its builders look back at their time creating a revolutionary aircraft no one thought was possible. See...
After designing a plane with no tail or fuselage, two of its builders look back at their time creating a revolutionary aircraft no one thought was possible. See more Crafting History at: http://www.northropgrumman.com/craftinghistory
#NorthropGrumman #B2Spirit
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After designing a plane with no tail or fuselage, two of its builders look back at their time creating a revolutionary aircraft no one thought was possible. See more Crafting History at: http://www.northropgrumman.com/craftinghistory
#NorthropGrumman #B2Spirit
- published: 22 Oct 2018
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58:31
A Tribute to Jack Northrop and His Flying Wings
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Roy Wolford shares stories, photographs, and videos from his 61 years with Northrop, including 40 years as photo department manager. He flew in chase aircraft ...
Roy Wolford shares stories, photographs, and videos from his 61 years with Northrop, including 40 years as photo department manager. He flew in chase aircraft to photographically many historical test flights. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org
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Roy Wolford shares stories, photographs, and videos from his 61 years with Northrop, including 40 years as photo department manager. He flew in chase aircraft to photographically many historical test flights. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org
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Flying Wings - John K. Northrop's Final Interview - 1979
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No copyright infringement intended. Please contact me directly, and I will remove the film. This ultra-rare documentary from 1979 has never been released on hom...
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The Jack Northrop Saga
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A short history of John K. "Jack" Northrop founder of Northrop Aviation and inventor of the Flying Wing.
A short history of John K. "Jack" Northrop founder of Northrop Aviation and inventor of the Flying Wing.
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A short history of John K. "Jack" Northrop founder of Northrop Aviation and inventor of the Flying Wing.
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Hawthorne City Walk: Jack Northrop
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Looking for a good walk around Hawthorne? Hawthorne City Walk is a brand new segment that will take you to different trails within the city while learning fun f...
Looking for a good walk around Hawthorne? Hawthorne City Walk is a brand new segment that will take you to different trails within the city while learning fun facts many residents don't know about.
In this segment, we take you on a 1 mile walk behind the Hawthorne airport on a street named Jack Northrop Ave.
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Looking for a good walk around Hawthorne? Hawthorne City Walk is a brand new segment that will take you to different trails within the city while learning fun facts many residents don't know about.
In this segment, we take you on a 1 mile walk behind the Hawthorne airport on a street named Jack Northrop Ave.
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Northrop | Aviation Pioneer And American Industrialist | Upscaled Original Documentary
Jack Northrop (John Knudsen Northrop), the aviation pioneer and American industrialist fou...
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Northrop | Aviation Pioneer And American Industrialist | Upscaled Original Documentary
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Jack Northrop (John Knudsen Northrop), the aviation pioneer and American industrialist founded 3 companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation in 1928, which was absorbed in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation[2] as a subsidiary named "Northrop Aircraft Corporation" (and later became part of Boeing).[3] The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas, 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.[4]
Northrop still sought his own company, and so in 1939 he established the "Northrop Corporation" in nearby Hawthorne, California, a site located by co-founder Moye Stephens. The corporation ranked 100th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.[5] It was there that the P-61 Black Widow night fighter, the B-35 and YB-49 experimental flying wing bombers, the F-89 Scorpion interceptor, the SM-62 Snark intercontinental cruise missile, and the F-5 Freedom Fighter economical jet fighter (and its derivative, the successful T-38 Talon trainer) were developed and built.[1]
Northrop Corporation wordmark from 1960
The F-5 was so successful that Northrop spent much of the 1970s and 1980s attempting to duplicate its success with similar lightweight designs. Their first attempt to improve the F-5 was the N-300, which featured much more powerful engines and moved the wing to a higher position to allow for increased ordnance that the higher power allowed. The N-300 was further developed into the P-530 with even larger engines, this time featuring a small amount of "bypass" (turbofan) to improve cooling and allow the engine bay to be lighter, as well as much more wing surface. The P-530 also included radar and other systems considered necessary on modern aircraft. When the Light Weight Fighter program was announced, the P-530 was stripped of much of its equipment to become the P-600, and eventually the YF-17 Cobra, which lost the competition to the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Nevertheless, the YF-17 Cobra was modified with help from McDonnell Douglas to become the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet in order to fill a similar lightweight design competition for the US Navy. Northrop intended to sell a de-navalized version as the F-18L, but the basic F-18A continued to outsell it, leading to a long and fruitless lawsuit between the two companies. Northrop continued to build much of the F-18 fuselage and other systems after this period, but also returned to the original F-5 design with yet another new engine to produce the F-20 Tigershark as a low-cost aircraft. This garnered little interest in the market, and the project was dropped.
In 1994, partly due to the loss of the Advanced Tactical Fighter contract to Lockheed Corporation and the removal of their proposal from consideration for the Joint Strike Fighter competition, the company bought Grumman to form Northrop Grumman.
Aircraft:
Northrop Alpha Single-engine transport
Northrop C-19 Alpha Single-engine transport
Northrop Beta Single-engine sport airplane
Northrop Gamma Single-engine transport
Northrop Delta Single-engine transport, 19 additional aircraft built by Canadian Vickers
Northrop XFT Prototype naval fighter
Northrop YA-13 Prototype attack aircraft
Northrop A-17/Nomad Attack/light bomber
Northrop BT Dive bomber
Northrop N-1M Experimental flying wing
Northrop N-3PB Floatplane patrol bomber
Northrop P-61 Black Widow Night fighter
Northrop N-9M Experimental scale flying wing proof of concept for B-35
Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet Prototype tailless fighter
Northrop F-15 Reporter Reconnaissance aircraft based on P-61
Northrop XP-79 Prototype jet flying wing fighter
Northrop YB-35 Prototype strategic bomber
Northrop Pioneer Trimotor transport
Northrop YB-49 Prototype eight-jet-engine strategic bomber
Northrop F-89 Scorpion Interceptor
Northrop X-4 Bantam Experimental trans-sonic tailless aircraft
Northrop YC-125 Raider Trimotor transport
Northrop F-5 Lightweight fighter
Northrop T-38 Talon Advanced trainer
Northrop X-21 Experimental boundary layer control aircraft
Northrop M2-F2 Experimental rocket powered lifting body
Northrop HL-10 Experimental rocket lifting body
Northrop M2-F3 Experimental rocket lifting body
Northrop YA-9 Prototype attack aircraft
Northrop YF-17 Prototype fighter, led to F/A-18
Northrop Tacit Blue Experimental stealth aircraft
Northrop F-20 Tigershark Prototype lightweight fighter derived from F-5
Northrop B-2 Spirit Strategic stealth bomber
Northrop YF-23 Prototype stealth fighter
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The History Of The Flying Wing And U.S. Bomber Aircraft. Jack Northrop's Dream
Learn about Jack Northrop's flying wing, its evolution, and its competitors.
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The History Of The Flying Wing And U.S. Bomber Aircraft. Jack Northrop's Dream
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Learn about Jack Northrop's flying wing, its evolution, and its competitors.
Jack Northrop's brainchild lost out to the B-36 after World War II, but the low radar profile of the flying wing design made a comeback decades later in the form of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.
The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses. Designed during the Cold War, it is a flying wing design with a crew of two. The bomber is subsonic and can deploy both conventional and thermonuclear weapons, such as up to eighty 500-pound class (230 kg) Mk 82 JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear bombs. The B-2 is the only acknowledged aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration.
Development started under the "Advanced Technology Bomber" (ATB) project during the Carter administration; its expected performance was one of the President's reasons for the cancellation of the Mach 2 capable B-1A bomber. The ATB project continued during the Reagan administration but worries about delays in its introduction led to the reinstatement of the B-1 program. Program costs rose throughout development. Designed and manufactured by Northrop, later Northrop Grumman, the cost of each aircraft averaged US$737 million (in 1997 dollars). Total procurement costs averaged $929 million per aircraft, which includes spare parts, equipment, retrofitting, and software support. The total program cost, which included development, engineering and testing, averaged $2.13 billion per aircraft in 1997.
Because of its considerable capital and operating costs, the project was controversial in the U.S. Congress. The winding-down of the Cold War in the latter portion of the 1980s dramatically reduced the need for the aircraft, which was designed with the intention of penetrating Soviet airspace and attacking high-value targets. During the late 1980s and 1990s, Congress slashed plans to purchase 132 bombers to 21. In 2008, a B-2 was destroyed in a crash shortly after takeoff, though the crew ejected safely. As of 2018, twenty B-2s are in service with the United States Air Force, which plans to operate them until 2032, when the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is to replace them.
The B-2 is capable of all-altitude attack missions up to 50,000 feet (15,000 m), with a range of more than 6,000 nautical miles (6,900 mi; 11,000 km) on internal fuel and over 10,000 nautical miles (12,000 mi; 19,000 km) with one midair refueling. It entered service in 1997 as the second aircraft designed to have advanced stealth technology after the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk attack aircraft. Though designed originally as primarily a nuclear bomber, the B-2 was first used in combat dropping conventional, non-nuclear ordnance in the Kosovo War in 1999. It later served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
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F-0471 Jack Northrop Designer
Biography of the founder of Northrop Aircraft.
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F-0471 Jack Northrop Designer
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What Happened To Flying Wings?
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What Happened To Flying Wings?
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At the start of the 1940’s, flying wing aircraft seemed destined to be the next evolution in aircraft design. By eliminating structural components typically found on conventional aircraft, such as engine nacelles, fuselage and tail, parasitic drag would be reduced down to its absolute minimum. The result would be a high-lift, low-drag aircraft with unequaled speed, range and efficiency.
Despite earlier efforts around the world to develop all-wing aircraft designs, arguably no single person was more committed to the concept than pioneering American aircraft designer Jack Northrop. Beginning in the 1920’s Northrop studied the concept, drawing up countless designs for flying wing aircraft. By 1940, he had successfully produced two prototypes, the Model 1 (“X216H”) in 1929 and the Northrop N-1M in 1940. But Northrop’s ambitions went far beyond just experimental planes.
Responding to an urgent need for the United States to develop the first ever intercontinental bomber, in 1941 Northrop presented the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) with a concept for an enormous flying wing bomber that would offer unparalleled speed, range and efficiency. Not only would the aircraft far outperform conventional bombers, the all-wing design would make it structurally more simple and economical to build. Impressed with Northrop’s concept, the USAAF agreed to fund the aircraft’s development, ordering an experimental model designated as the XB-35 and pre-production models designated as YB-35s. The USAAF would eventually order over 200 production aircraft which were to be designated as B-35s. Later, a jet powered version, designated as the YB-49 would also be produced.
But engineering such unconventional aircraft would be a daunting engineering challenge for Northrop and his small team of engineers. Eliminating conventional control surfaces would maximize lift and minimize drag, but it would also create new unforeseen technical issues, many of which would only be discovered during flight testing - with tragic consequences. Despite best efforts by Northrop to solve technical issues with flying wing aircraft, solutions would prove elusive using technology available in the 1940s.
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Crafting History – John Cashen, B-2 Designer
Here’s what happened when the B-2 was unveiled to one of the founders of Northrop Grumman,...
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Crafting History – John Cashen, B-2 Designer
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Here’s what happened when the B-2 was unveiled to one of the founders of Northrop Grumman, Jack Northrop. See more Crafting History at: http://www.northropgrumman.com/craftinghistory
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Crafting History – B-2 Beginnings
After designing a plane with no tail or fuselage, two of its builders look back at their t...
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Crafting History – B-2 Beginnings
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After designing a plane with no tail or fuselage, two of its builders look back at their time creating a revolutionary aircraft no one thought was possible. See more Crafting History at: http://www.northropgrumman.com/craftinghistory
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A Tribute to Jack Northrop and His Flying Wings
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A Tribute to Jack Northrop and His Flying Wings
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Roy Wolford shares stories, photographs, and videos from his 61 years with Northrop, including 40 years as photo department manager. He flew in chase aircraft to photographically many historical test flights. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org
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Flying Wings - John K. Northrop's Final Interview - 1979
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The Jack Northrop Saga
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Hawthorne City Walk: Jack Northrop
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Jack Northrop
John Knudsen "Jack" Northrop (November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer, who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939.
His career began in 1916 as a draftsman for Lockheed Aircraft Manufacturing Company (founded 1912). He joined the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1923, where in time he became a project engineer. In 1927 he rejoined Lockheed, where he was a chief engineer on the Lockheed Vega transport. He left in 1929 to found Avion Corporation, which he sold in 1930. Two years later he founded the Northrop Corporation. This firm became a subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft in 1939, so he co-founded a second company named Northrop.
Entering aviation
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Northrop grew up in Santa Barbara, California. In 1916 Northrop's first job in aviation was in working as a draftsman for Lockheed Aircraft Manufacturing Company, founded in 1912 by the Loughead brothers (Allan and Malcolm Loughead). In 1923, Northrop joined Douglas Aircraft Company, participating in the design of the Douglas Round-the-World-Cruiser and working up to project engineer. In early 1927, Northrop assisted Jack Ryan of Ryan Aircraft in the larger wing design used on Lindbergh's plane "The Spirit of St Louis" that would later make the New York to Paris flight in May 1927.
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