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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 ...
Meanwhile, as there was no sign of the P-61s. the pilots kept up their flight time on Cessna UC-78 Bobcats and de Havilland Mosquitoes. [5] Tennessee Ridge Runner P-61 42–25543 at an ALG in France or the Low Countries, Fall 1944. The squadron moved to RAF Scorton on 6 May. The original plan had been for all three night fighter squadrons to be ...
The first USAAF unit using the P-61 did not move to Britain until February 1944; operational use did not start until the summer, and was limited throughout the war. Colonel Winston Kratz, director of night-fighter training in the USAAF, considered the P-61 as adequate in its role, "It was a good night fighter. It did not have enough speed". [35]
Production delays at Northrop for the P-61 Black Widow fighter aircraft required the unit to use what it had until the first YP-61s were received in early 1944. [3] In October, it was decided to form specialized night fighter training squadrons, and the 348th and 349th Night Fighter Squadrons were formed, [ 5 ] largely from elements of the 50th ...
The Americans used a Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter to divert Japanese attention while the Rangers were crawling toward the camp. [3] The aircraft used in the movie was a Lockheed Hudson, because none of the four surviving P-61s were airworthy when the film was made.
HMBS Nassau (P-61), a patrol boat of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force; HMS Varangian (P61), a submarine of the Royal Navy; INS Kora (P61), a corvette of the Indian Navy; LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61), an offshore patrol vessel of the Irish Naval Service; Maltese patrol boat P61; Polemistis (P61), a HSY-55-class gunboat of the Hellenic Navy
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
Northrop C-19 Alpha; Northrop C-100 Gamma; Northrop C-125 Raider; Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter; Northrop RF-5 Tigereye; Northrop F-15 Reporter; Northrop F-17 Cobra; Northrop F-20 Tigershark; Northrop F-61 Black Widow / Northrop P-61 Black Widow; Northrop F-89 Scorpion; Northrop FT; Northrop F2T Black Widow; Northrop JB-1 Bat; Northrop XP-56 ...