John Knudsen Northrop (November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939.
His career began in 1916 as a draftsman for Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company (founded 1912). He joined the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1923, where in time he became a project engineer. In 1927 he joined the Lockheed Corporation, where he was a chief engineer on the Lockheed Vega transport. He left in 1929 to found Avion Corporation, which he sold in 1930. Two years later, he founded the Northrop Corporation. This firm became a subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft in 1939, so he co-founded a second company named Northrop.[1]
^Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II, pp. 93-106, Cypress, CA, 2013; ISBN 978-0-9897906-0-4.
John Knudsen Northrop (November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer who founded the Northrop Corporation...
flying wing design, most successfully the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. JackNorthrop founded 3 companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation...
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 95,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess...
which was based on the development of the flying wing aircraft by JackNorthrop in 1940, this design allowed for a stable aircraft with sufficient yaw...
Douglas Lawson in 1975 after the tailless fixed-wing aircraft designer JackNorthrop. The genus also includes the smaller species Q. lawsoni, which was known...
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World War II. It was overseen by JackNorthrop and James L. McKenley. After the war, John Northrop formed the Northrop Aeronautical Institute because he...
garage, which attracted the attention of 20-year-old John K. "Jack" Northrop. Northrop was skilled in drafting and mathematics, and the Lougheads employed...
The Northrop Gamma was a single-engine all-metal monoplane cargo aircraft used in the 1930s. Towards the end of its service life, it was developed into...
variants. In the United States, from the 1930s JackNorthrop independently worked on his own designs. The Northrop N-1M, a scale prototype for a long-range...
the Douglas World Cruiser (DWC), also was the first major project for JackNorthrop who designed the fuel system for the series. After the prototype was...
configuration was studied extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, notably by JackNorthrop and Cheston L. Eshelman in the United States, and Alexander Lippisch...
by the Northrop Corporation, followed by 19 aircraft built under license by Canadian Vickers Limited. When JackNorthrop set up the Northrop Corporation...
record[verification needed] 1985 – Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) JackNorthrop Award (with Voyager co-pilot Jeana Yeager) 1986 – Presidential Citizens...
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