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F-89 Scorpion in Action (Aircraft 104) By L. Davis

The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was one of the most heavily armed fighter aircraft in history and one of Jack Northrop's last designs. The F-89 was the backbone of the North American Air Defense Command and defended the continental United States for over seventeen years, equipping thirty-nine Air Force squadrons. Scorpions were stationed from Maine to Alaska, as well as serving with units in Greenland and Iceland. The F-89 was the first aircraft designed to carry an all-rocket armament, the first operational air­craft to be armed with the Hughes Falcon air-to-air guided missile, and the first nuclear-armed interceptor. Although the F-89 never fired a shot in anger, it was a major deterrent to a Soviet attack during the Cold War of the 1950s.

The F-89 was designed by John K. (Jack) Northrop, one of the most brilliant aviation engineers of all time. His designs included the Lockheed Vega and Gamma, the Douglas SBD Dauntless, and the Northrop P-M Black Widow, the only Allied aircraft of the Second World War specifically designed to fight at night. The most radical of Jack Northrop's designs were the XB-35/YB-49 Flying Wings. Concepts proven with these aircraft eventually led to the B-2 Stealth Bomber. All of his designs had one thing in com­mon — they were unconventional in one way or another.

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