Northrop’s Stealth Aircraft
Prototypes and Projects 1940-1950
War Secrets-Volume Five
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, elevators, flaperons and split decelerons
Northrop MX-322 (XP-79) Flying Ram
The Rotojet
Northrop MX-322 (XP-79)
Northrop XP-79B
Northrop MX-334/I
The Aerojet XCAL R-200 rocket engine
Northrop MX-334/II
Northrop MX-334/III
Northrop MX-324
Northrop YB-35
Northrop YB-49
Convair B-36
The creation of the Strategic Air Command
Northrop YRB-49
Stuart Symington, Secretary of U.S. Air Force
The Horten Brothers were questioned and the Ho IIL, Ho IIIf, Ho IIIh and Ho IV gliders were inspected by Northrop engineers at Hawthorne plant
The creation of the LASHUP system
The Half Moon Bay stealth incident
Year 1947 was incredibly special. Just five days before the cancellation of the program, the doctrine to contain the Soviet expansion was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman.
The Cold War had started.
In May 22, the President signed an Act of Congress that implement the Truman Doctrine.
On June 4, the first Mogul balloon was launched, five days later the U.S. attaché in Moscow informed the War Department that the Soviets had begun the serial construction of the Horten Ho VIII flying wing bomber.
‘June 9, 1947 intelligence report’
In June 26, the U.S. newspapers first began using the term flying saucer.
The Roswell incident occurred on July 8.
In July 26, the President signed the National Security Act (NSA 47) creating the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Council (NSC).
The first North American F-86 swept wing fighter was flown on October 1, thirteen days later the Bell X-1 experimental rocket plane flew faster than the speed of sound, but it was a record that was kept secret.
In December 30, the Soviet swept wing fighter MiG-15 makes its first flight.
Tupolev Tu-4
Tcheranovski BITch-22
Chetverikov LK-1
Antonov Project M
Tcheranovski tailless jet fighters Nº 24, 25, 26 and 110
Myasishchev M-67 LK
Bibliography
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