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John Knudsen 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 Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company (founded 1912).
21 de feb. de 2022 · Jack Northrop was an American industrialist, born in 1885, and involved in many aircraft designs over his long career. He is best known for founding the Northrop Corporation in 1939. The company produced many military fighter and bomber aircraft, including the B-2 stealth bomber.
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21 de dic. de 2016 · In the 1940s, Jack Northrop generated great excitement with his amazing “Flying Wing,” which flew like an airplane but didn’t look like one, at least not in the traditional sense. It demonstrated that an aircraft did not need a tail or a fuselage to fly. The wing was enough.
10 de nov. de 2017 · On November 10, 1895, American aircraft industrialist and designer Jack Northrop was born. Northrop was an early advocate of all-metal construction and the flying wing design. He founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939.
1 de oct. de 2005 · In the course of a long and illustrious career, the legendary Jack Northrop created a series of outstanding aircraft that ranged from a tiny wooden biplane to gigantic flying wings which were, in some ways, 40 years ahead of their time.
20 de jul. de 2020 · Jack Northrop dreamed big with his futuristic flying wing, but the radical bomber proved too great a technological leap for his company to bridge in the late 1940s.
The world got its first true look at Jack Northrop’s genius with the Northrop Alpha, which matured into the Gamma, one of history’s most capable airplanes of exploration.
