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Northrop’s Stealth Aircraft Prototypes and Projects 1940-1950 War Secrets-Volume Five CONTENTS Northrop N-1 Northrop N-1M Northrop proposal MX-140 N-9M trainers Northrop XB-35 Air Corps Specification XC-622 Northrop XP-56 (41-786) Northrop XP-56 (42-38353) Aero boost ducts...

The Northrop N-204 was an advanced high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft project conceived in the fall of 1957, derived from Northrop's earlier N-165 spyplane design. It was powered by eight Westinghouse J54 turbojets arranged in two groups of four side-by-side engines between the outer wing...

I have come across an article from Air Force Magazine (link below) about the F-5 dated December 1964 that briefly talks about two variants of the F-5 apparently being offered at the time. First, an improved F-5A with slightly higher thrust ("J85-13/J5", 4300 lbf, 220 lbf higher than the...

Mike Machat shows some of R G Smith's incredible artwork on his Youtube channel. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S4R4B3GxD4

Hi! https://www.airforcemag.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Documents/1963/0863control.pdf http://nhungdoicanh.blogspot.com/2010/07/northrop-x-21.html https://kerbalx.com/NorthAmericanAviation/Northrop-X-21

From SDASM Flickr photostream - what is obviously a visit to Northrop from an Israeli delegation. Anyone know more?

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/usaf-northrop-harassment-weapons-1817855401

hello, I'm searching Northrop BETA 3 plans and pictures to scratch an 1/48 scale model...

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790018955.pdf 1979 Northrop / GE study for conversion of a YF-17 into a demonstrator for GE's ADEN vectoring and thrust reversing nozzle.

Northrop "Walking" Lunar Vehicle from 1965 concept photo found on eBay. Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Press-Photo-1965-Moon-Lunar-Concept-Vehicle-By-Northrop-Space-Lab-Apollo-Moon-La-/160790921570?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item256fe2c162

In 1975, the U.S. Air Force was trying to determine what the capabilities of the next generation of drones should be and how such a vehicle — designed specifically for the task — would accomplish these objectives. While the Air Force's then current inventory of remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs)...

Here's a color shot of the XF-89 (46-678) with Fred C. Bretcher in the cockpit.

The Northrop XST; http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1992/1992%20-%200362.pdf

I was wondering if anybody knows anything more about the NATF & pre-NATF Tomcat replacement proposals.The only one i know about is the Lockheed swing-wing NATF proposal that is based on the F-22.I've read that they chose swing-wings because it was the easiest way to offer F-22 performance and to...

Hi, A new program to USAF during the 1990s was ASTT/ARD (Advanced Surveillance and Tracking Technology/Airborne Radar demonstrator) to develope new AWACS aircraft. I know one contender the Boeing-767 AWACS version.

Found via google patent search. Northrop design, seems to be related to early stages of AX. Patent: D218,856 https://patents.google.com/patent/USD218856S/en

A-12 press pack, courtesy of flateric

This is a design study from AIAA student journal back in the 1980's for a lightweight supercruise fighter by Northrop. To me, it's sort of their "modern" F-5. I've seen pictures of a lightning test model in Koku-Fan of an iteration of this configuration and the model seemed to have slightly...

in this competition, the main contenders were:- 1-Boeing model -----? 2-Northamerican-Rockwell NR-349 3-Vought V-483. 4-lockheed CL- -----? 5-Grumman G-300. 6-General Dynamics model -----? 7-Fairchild-Hiller (Republic division) model ----? 8-McDonnell-Douglas F-15 model ----? can anyone...

Northrop P-610 single-engine variant of the YF-17 Cobra (later F/A-18 Hornet) At the time of the USAF’s ‘Light Weight Fighter’ (LWF) Request for Proposal, Northrop attempted to cover its bases, by submitting both a single-engine design, the P-610, and the twin-engine design, the P-600 Both the...