John Knudsen Northrop (November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer who founded the Northrop Corporation...

brainchild of Jack Northrop, who made the flying wing the focus of his work during the 1930s. In 1941 before the USA entered World War II, Northrop and Consolidated...

The Northrop YB-49 was an American prototype jet-powered heavy bomber developed by Northrop Corporation shortly after World War II for service with the...

flying wing design, most successfully the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Jack Northrop founded 3 companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation...

Jack Northrop Field) is a public use airport in Hawthorne, California, United States. It is owned by the City of Hawthorne. The name "Jack Northrop Field"...

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...

Model) was the third in a lineage of all-wing Northrop aircraft designs that began in 1929 when Jack Northrop succeeded in early experiments with his single...

in the development of the flying wing concept by Northrop Aircraft during the 1940s. Jack Northrop became involved with all-wing aircraft designs in...

Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense company. With 95,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion...

Douglas Lawson in 1975 after the tailless fixed-wing aircraft designer Jack Northrop. The genus also includes the smaller species Q. lawsoni, which was known...

magnesium monocoque structure instead of riveted aluminum. In 1942, Jack Northrop conceived the XP-79 as a high-speed rocket-powered flying-wing fighter...

step in weapons technology during the Cold War. The Snark was named by Jack Northrop and took its name from the author Lewis Carroll's character the "snark"...

Northrop may refer to: John Howard Northrop (1891–1987), biochemist John Isaiah Northrop (1861–1891), zoologist Jack Northrop (John Knudsen Northrop,...

The Northrop A-17, also known as the Northrop Model 8, a development of the Northrop Gamma 2F model, was a two-seat, single-engine, monoplane, attack bomber...

garage, which attracted the attention of 20-year-old John K. "Jack" Northrop. Northrop was skilled in drafting and mathematics, and the Lougheads employed...

World War II. It was overseen by Jack Northrop and James L. McKenley. After the war, John Northrop formed the Northrop Aeronautical Institute because he...

The Northrop N-1 (Northrop Model 1) was a projected flying wing medium bomber designed by Jack Northrop. The N-1 was a development of an earlier flying...

which was based on the development of the flying wing aircraft by Jack Northrop in 1940, this design allowed for a stable aircraft with sufficient yaw...

The Northrop F-89 Scorpion is an all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Northrop Corporation...

variants. In the United States, from the 1930s Jack Northrop independently worked on his own designs. The Northrop N-1M, a scale prototype for a long-range...

the Douglas World Cruiser (DWC), also was the first major project for Jack Northrop who designed the fuel system for the series. After the prototype was...

configuration was studied extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, notably by Jack Northrop and Cheston L. Eshelman in the United States, and Alexander Lippisch...

Yeager shared the 1985 Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) Jack Northrop Award and 1987 SETP Iven C. Kincheloe Award with Voyager pilot Dick...

other aircraft companies. Jack Northrop developed his famous flying wings, which ultimately led to the B-2 stealth bomber. Northrop also produced the P-61...

The Northrop Gamma was a single-engine all-metal monoplane cargo aircraft used in the 1930s. Towards the end of its service life, it was developed into...

The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed...

record[verification needed] 1985 – Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) Jack Northrop Award (with Voyager co-pilot Jeana Yeager) 1986 – Presidential Citizens...

surviving Jack Northrop flying wings (Northrop N-1M at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center annex of the National Air and Space Museum and the Northrop JB-1 Bat...

The Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet was a unique prototype fighter interceptor built by the Northrop Corporation. It was one of the most radical of the experimental...

to Santa Barbara, California, the same year Santa Barbara resident Jack Northrop (aged 20) took his first job in aviation working as a draftsman for...