The Northrop XP-79, USAAF project number MX-365, was a rocket and jet-powered flying wing fighter aircraft, designed by Northrop. The pilot operated the...
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anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying wing with a crew of two, the plane was designed by Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) as the prime contractor,...
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The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter technology demonstrator prototype designed for the United...
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Rammer Fliegende Panzerfaust Focke-Wulf Volksjäger Northrop XP-79 known colloquially as the "flying chainsaw" Related lists List of German aircraft projects...
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Retrieved 2023-11-20. "Northrop P-61C Black Widow". National Museum of the United States Air Force™. Retrieved 2023-11-20. "Curtiss XP-62"....
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North American F-82 Twin Mustang (redirect from North American XP-82 Twin Mustang)
Heinkel He 219 Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning Messerschmitt Bf 109Z "Zwilling" Messerschmitt Me 609 Mitsubishi Ki-83 Northrop P-61 Black Widow Savoia-Marchetti...
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Curtiss XP-62 McDonnell XP-67 Bat Republic XP-72 Fisher (General Motors) P-75 Eagle Bell XP-76 Northrop XP-79 Convair XP-81 Bell XP-83 XB-35 YB-49 XB-70...
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Grumman and his business partners, it merged in 1994 with Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman. Leroy Grumman worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering...
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included the Soviet Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 that flew in 1942 while the Northrop XP-79 was originally planned with rocket engines but switched to jet engines...
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning (redirect from Lockheed XP-38 Lightning)
turbosuperchargers, with a central nacelle for the pilot and armament. The XP-38 gondola mockup was designed to mount two .50-caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning...
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(1918–1948), who was killed a year earlier in the crash of the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing. During World War II, he flew A-20 Havoc light attack bombers...
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"Snoopy", "Rhino", "Double Ugly", "Old Smokey", the "Flying Anvil", "Flying Footlocker", "Flying Brick", "Lead Sled", the "Big Iron Sled", and the "St...
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Aviation with the NA-212, which eventually evolved into the F-107; and Northrop Corporation with the N-102 Fang, another J79-powered entry. Although all...
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com/title/tt1996333/ Sharp, D.; Luftwaffe: Secret Jets of the Third Reich, Morton's, 2015. Flying inside the groove: the latest rocket-powered test aircraft take just four...
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troughs (seen on the Northrop YF-23), and coating internal and external metal areas with radar-absorbent materials and paint (RAM/RAP). The AESA radar...
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A German Arado Ar 79 training and touring aircraft sets an international long-distance record for an aircraft of its class, flying 6,303 km (3,917 statute...
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powerful and reliable. The flare and chaff dispensers were moved, and the ram-air intake was lengthened at the fin's base. Initially known as the AV-8D...
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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick I. Eglin, who was killed in a crash of his Northrop A-17 pursuit aircraft on a flight from Langley to Maxwell Field, Alabama...
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List of aircraft engines (redirect from Ram-Jet Engines)
speed record car Superior Air Parts XP-320 Superior Air Parts XP-360 Superior Air Parts XP-382 Superior Air Parts XP-400 Superior Air Parts Gemini Diesel...
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was given the designation XP-21F, with the name parsed as "Sky Striker" on the packaging. In addition to the new tooling, the XP-21F features darker gray...
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parachutes to safety. It is the first aerial night ramming in history. Two squadrons of United States Navy flying boats are based at Reykjavík, Iceland, to conduct...
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MS.560 September 5 – Douglas C-74 Globemaster September 12 – Northrop XP-79B Flying Ram September 25 – de Havilland Dove October 4 — SNCASE SE-2100 October...
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officials said. 13 May On seventh and final flight of Northrop N-69A test vehicle for the Northrop XSM-62 Snark, only two of which were successful, mission...
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the submarine USS Queenfish on 12 April. 11 April The second of two Northrop XP-61E Black Widows, 42-39557, modified from the P-61B with a cut-down fuselage...
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