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The name "Jack Northrop Field" comes from the Northrop Aircraft Corporation, founded by Jack Northrop, which for years designed, built and flew many classic airplanes including YB-35 flying wing, the P-61 Black Widow and F-89 Scorpion night fighters, the F-5 Freedom Fighter, and the T-38 Talon jet trainer. [1]
Jun 25, 2024 · 21 October 1947: At Northrop Field, Hawthorne, California, Northrop Corporation Chief Test Pilot Max R. Stanley took off in the first YB-49, 42-102367, and flew it to Muroc Air Force Base for flight testing. The co-pilot was Fred C. Bretcher and Orva H. Douglas served as flight test engineer. The Flying Wing landed at Muroc 34 minutes later.
May 26, 2024 · 26 May 1942. Northrop Corporation XP-61 prototype 41-19509 at Northrop Field, 1942. (U.S. Air Force) 26 May 1942: The prototype Northrop XP-61-NO Black Widow, 41-19509, made its first flight at Northrop Field, Hawthorne, California, with free-lance test pilot Vance Breese at the controls. (Breese had taken the North American Aviation NA-73X ...
Aug 25, 1989 · The Northrop Aircraft Co. press release was dated Sept. 1, 1939. ... And Northrop Field, where the first landings a half-century ago were on an unpaved runway, is now the Hawthorne Municipal ...
In 1945, an easement for 0.11 acres was obtained from Northrop Aircraft Corporation bringing the total land size of "Plancor 1469" to 50.82 acres. The united states had no beneficial interest in the remaining approximately 122.5 acres of Hawthorne Municipal Airport. The Army Air Forces Technical Training Command operatef a Factory School at the ...
Jun 25, 2024 · 25 June 1946. Northrop XB-35 taking off at Northrop Field, Hawthorne, California. (U.S. Air Force) Max R. Stanley (Photograph courtesy of Neil Corbett, Test and Research Pilots, Flight Test Engineers)) 25 June 1946: Northrop Aircraft, Inc., experimental test pilot Max R. Stanley, flight test engineer Dale Schroeder and Orva H Douglas, Jr ...
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The name "Jack Northrop Field" comes from the Northrop Aircraft Corporation, founded by Jack Northrop, which for years designed, built and flew many classic airplanes including YB-35 flying wing, the P-61 Black Widow and F-89 Scorpion night fighters, the F-5 Freedom Fighter, and the T-38 Talon jet trainer. [1]
