During WWII Northrop had been commissioned to develop a large wing-only long-range bomber ( XB-35 ) based on photographs of the Horten's record-setting glider from the 1930s, but their initial designs suffered controllability issues that were not resolved until after the war.

* June 25 – Northrop XB-35 42-13603, prototype of the Northrop YB-35 flying-wing bomber

" Northrop XB-35 / YB-49 " Concept Aircraft: Prototypes, X-Planes and Experimental Aircraft.

It was also during this period that he acquired his first experience with a flying wing, as he familiarized himself with the flying qualities of the Northrop N-9M, a single-seat, one-third scale mock-up of the giant XB-35 prototype bomber.

Image: XB-35. jpg | Experimental flying wing Northrop XB-35 ( 1946 )

** Northrop F-5E / F

The backbone of the Brazilian combat aviation made up of three types, the Northrop F-5E / F, the Embraer / Aermacchi A-1A / B ( AMX ) and the Embraer A / T-29 Super Tucano.

* Westinghouse Electronic Systems ( now Northrop Grumman ) AN / APN-241 weather and navigational radar

A version armed with the Northrop Grumman GBU-44 / B Viper Strike weapon system is known as the MQ-5A / B.

Other major satellite manufacturers include Space Systems / Loral, Orbital Sciences Corporation with the STAR Bus series, Indian Space Research Organization, Lockheed Martin ( owns the former RCA Astro Electronics / GE Astro Space business ), Northrop Grumman, Alcatel Space, now Thales Alenia Space, with the Spacebus series, and Astrium.

Northrop Grumman and General Atomics are the dominant manufacturers in this industry, on the strength of the Global Hawk and Predator / Mariner systems.

* Northrop F-5A / B Freedom Fighter & F-5E / F Tiger-II

Northrop Grumman has a major facility in El Segundo where the F / A-18 Hornet fuselage is manufactured, as well as the headquarters of the Space Technology division in Redondo Beach and a facility at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport.

USAF Plant 42, where the aforementioned aerospace projects occurred / occur is home to major operations of the following aerospace companies: Boeing, Lockheed Martin and its famed Skunk Works, and Northrop Grumman.

Aircraft on March's flightline in the 1930s included Keystone B-4, Martin B-10 / B-12 and Douglas B-18 Bolo bombers ; Boeing P-12, P-26 Peashooter, and Curtiss P-36 Hawk pursuit aircraft ; Northrop A-17A dive bombers and Douglas O-38 observation aircraft.

Sunnyvale is also home to several aerospace / defense companies ; Lockheed Martin has a major facility in Sunnyvale, and Honeywell, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems-Marine Systems ( formerly Joshua Hendy Iron Works ), Finisar, and Spirent also have offices in Sunnyvale.

* Space Technology Laboratories, a former division / subsidiary of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, later TRW Inc, taken over by Northrop Grumman in 2002

* Northrop Grumman, X-47A / B ( TD for A variant )

* Northrop F-5E / F Tiger-II

The Northrop Grumman / Bellcom VF-0 Phoenix variable fighter was an advanced prototype for the VF-1 Valkyrie which served as a flight test unit and later in 2008 as a front-line fighter, before the Valkyrie's mass production in November 2008.

" Northrop / McDonnell Douglas YF-23 ".

* Northrop / McDonnell Douglas YF-23 page on joebaugher. com

* YF-23 " Black Widow II ", Northrop / McDonnell Douglas page on fighter-planes. com

" Flying wing " aircraft, such as the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing and the Northrop B-2 Spirit bomber have no separate fuselage ; instead what would be the fuselage is a thickened portion of the wing structure.

Northrop YB-49 flying wing

* The American Northrop YB-49 of 1947.

Such trends culminated in the Northrop YB-35 and YB-49, which did not enter production.

* Northrop YB-49

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His genius continued into the postwar era of jet aircraft, to produce the Northrop F-89 Scorpion all-weather interceptor, the Northrop YB-49 long-range bomber, the Northrop Snark intercontinental missile, and automatic celestial navigation systems.

He produced a number of flying wings, including the Northrop N-1M, Northrop N-9M, and Northrop YB-49.

In May 1948, he was selected to join the team of test pilots and engineers at Muroc who were then evaluating the Northrop YB-49, the all-jet version of the exotic flying wing bomber.

# Redirect Northrop YB-49

Spectrum of aircraft design concepts from Boeing 757 | conventional airliner ( 1 ), X-48 | blended wing-body ( 2 ), B-2 Spirit | hybrid flying wing ( 3 ), Northrop YB-49 | flying wing ( 4 ).

Note that the spectrum does not represent either a chronological or technical order ; the Northrop YB-49 | YB-49 ( 4 ), representing a true flying wing, actually predates all other depicted aircraft, while the " conventional " Boeing 757 ( 1 ) is a relatively new and technologically advanced aircraft, and the X-48 ( 2 ) is the most recently developed.

* Northrop YB-49

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* " Questioning Northrop Frye's Adaptation of Vico ".

A Congressional report stated that " Northrop was behind schedule before it even started " and noted that the Air Force knew as early as 1985 that there were " serious system deficiencies as well as a lack of effective progress ".

The first was the Avion Corporation in 1927, which was absorbed in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation as a subsidiary named " Northrop Aviation Corporation ".

* " Scorpion with a Nuclear Sting: Northrop F-89 ".

Such changes to shape and surface composition form stealth technology as currently used on the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit " Stealth Bomber ".

:* Northrop Frye reviewing the Decline of the West, said that " If ... nothing else, it would still be one of the worlds great Romantic poems ".

Training included a flight on a Northrop T-38 Talon jet trainer aircraft, and about 40 flights on the " Vomit Comet ".

Robert Alter of The New York Times suggested that this kind of writing belongs to a genre literary critic Northrop Frye called the " anatomy ", which is " a combination of fantasy and morality ".

* Goodall, James C. " The Lockheed YF-22 and Northrop YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighters ".

" Northrop Flying Wings ".

The songs second verse originally honored the school's president, Cyrus Northrop, who went by the nickname " Prexy ".

He, another follower of Joseph Smith, Jr. named Northrop Sweet, and four unnamed others were responsible for the creation of the " Pure Church of Christ ".