biography
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Northrop, John K(nudsen)
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| (1895–1981)
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| biography:
| Aircraft designer and manufacturer, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He began as a project engineer for the Loughead Aircraft Co in 1916, continued with Douglas Aircraft Co, and was a co-founder and chief engineer of the Lockheed Aircraft Co of Burbank, CA (1927–8). He was vice-president and chief engineer of the Northrop Corporation, a subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft (1933–7), and became president and director of engineering of Northrop Aircraft Inc (1939–52). His company built military planes such as the P-61 Black Widow night fighter and the F-89 Scorpion jet and fighter. |
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