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The P-61 radar operator occupied a separate compartment in the rear of the fuselage accessed from a hatch below. In August 1940, sixteen months before the United States entered the war, the U.S. Air Officer in London, Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, was briefed on British research in radar ("Radio Detection And Ranging" as it was then known), which had been underway since 1935, and had ...
The Northrop F-15 Reporter (later RF-61) was an American unarmed photographic reconnaissance aircraft.Based on the Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter, it was the last piston-powered photo-reconnaissance aircraft designed and produced for the United States Air Force. [1]
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Data from all three aircraft 'black boxes' being extracted. Photos show removal of plane wreckage. ... Moving the larger chunks of the aircraft will be necessary to find the bodies of the ...
The P-82C featured a new nacelle (under the center wing section) housing an SCR-720 radar. The SCR-720 was the same radar installation which was carried aboard the Northrop P-61 Black Widow, a considerably larger aircraft. The right-hand cockpit became the radar operator's position. The production version was designated P-82G. P-82D
Arriving in late August, the squadron was equipped with modified Lockheed P-38 Lightnings used as night fighters without radar. However, the P-38s were replaced when its P-61 aircraft arrived in September. The 547th would be a key player in the battles both prior to and as part of the Philippines Campaign to regain the islands from the Japanese ...
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The crew members included the pilot, paramedic and flight nurse, officials said.