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    The Northrop P-61 Black Widow is a twin-engine United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft of World War II. It was the first operational U.S. warplane...
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    The Northrop F-15 Reporter (later RF-61) was an American unarmed photographic reconnaissance aircraft. Based on the Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter...
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  • Kennywood Black Widow, a roller coaster at Six Flags New England Northrop P-61 Black Widow, a World War II night fighter Black Widow II, a Northrop YF-23[broken...
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    extensively by the Air Defense Command as replacements for the Northrop P-61 Black Widow as all-weather day/night interceptors. During the Korean War,...
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    designed from the outset to function as a night fighter, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. Avionics systems were greatly miniaturised over time, allowing...
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    World War II military production contracts. It was there that the P-61 Black Widow night fighter, the B-35 and YB-49 experimental flying wing bombers...
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    more significant of his World War II designs, along with the Northrop P-61 Black Widow, the first American night interceptor, of which more than 700...
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    2017, p. 84. Goodall 1992, pp. 108–115, 124. Metz 2017, pp. 92–93. Sweetman 1991a, pp. 42–44, 55. "Northrop-McDonnell Douglas YF-23A Black Widow II". National...
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    first purpose-built twin-engine radar-equipped night fighter, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. When the US entered the war in December 1941, designs advanced...
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    It later served in Italy, India, Southern China and Burma as a Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter interceptor squadron. The squadron was reactivated...
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    design, with the Dutch Fokker G.I heavy fighter, and the later Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter and Swedish SAAB 21 having a similar planform. The...
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    was the first American squadron in England equipped with the Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter. After the landings in France, the mission of the...
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    moved from the Beaufighter to the new American nightfighter, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. The squadron only flew a few missions in this new fighter before...
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    All-Weather Fighting Aircraft") for a night fighter to replace the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. The preliminary specification, issued to aircraft manufacturers...
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    of Operations, flying both the British Bristol Beaufighter and Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighters. It earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for operations...
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    The Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet is a unique prototype fighter interceptor built by the Northrop Corporation. It was one of the most radical of the experimental...
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    The Northrop YF-17 (nicknamed "Cobra") was a prototype lightweight fighter aircraft designed by Northrop aviation for the United States Air Force's Lightweight...
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    The Northrop T-38 Talon is a two-seat, twinjet supersonic jet trainer designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Northrop Corporation...
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  • A-13/A-16/A-17/A-33 - Attack aircraft Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet - Prototype fighter Northrop P-61 Black Widow - Night fighter Northrop XP-79 - Prototype interceptor...
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    incorporated into the final design. A night fighter aircraft, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow, was designed around the new radar. Ramsey returned to Washington...
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    of, or to supplement ailerons, such as the F4 Phantom II and Northrop P-61 Black Widow, which had almost full width flaps (there were very small conventional...
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    Lightning operators Lockheed XP-49 Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning Northrop P-61 Black Widow Glacier Girl. p38assn.org Access date: 21 January 2007. 41-7677...
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    30 Ñancú Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Kawasaki Ki-102 Mitsubishi Ki-83 Northrop P-61 Black Widow Rikugun Ki-93 Related lists List of aircraft of World War II List...
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    Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense company. With 95,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion...
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    Kyushu J7W Shinden One of four surviving Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighters One of two surviving Boeing P-26 Peashooter fighters A Bede BD-5, single-seat...
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    operations but primarily flew as night fighters. Although the Northrop P-61 Black Widow fighter began to arrive in December 1944, USAAF Beaufighters continued...
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    Night Fighter Squadrons were stationed at Scorton flying the Northrop P-61 Black Widow fighter. After the war, it was kept for a while as a Maintenance...
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  • A-13/A-16/A-17/A-33 attack aircraft Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet prototype fighter Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter Northrop XP-79 prototype interceptor...
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    The squadron's nickname "Black Widows" is derived from its World War II combat heritage of flying the Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter, the only...
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    March 1994 Bell P-400, 1942 Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1942–1943 Lockheed P-38 Lightning, 1942–1945 Northrop P-61 Black Widow (later F-61, 1947–1950 North...
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