Word: northrop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, arc-welding magnesium was almost as impossible as welding paper, and for the same reason: this most inflammable metal* would ignite from the heat of the welder's electric arc just as it does in magnesium incendiary bombs. But after two years of research, engineers of Northrop Aircraft Inc. discovered that magnesium can safely be arc-welded if the hot metal is blanketed with helium to exclude atmospheric oxygen. The helium also cools the molten metal, acts as a metal-cleaning flux...
Doing away with much of this clutter of ribs and spars is a major step in development of the flying wing, for this bodiless plane must have clear wing interiors to make room for passengers, cargo, bombs, Northrop Aircraft built a two-engined flying wing with a 38-ft. span, flew it so successfully last fall that the U.S. Army popped the queer plane out of sight for further development. Reason: some engineers estimate that the plane, lacking a tail, has 40% less head resistance than a conventional plane, and every square inch of its body contributes to lift. Hence...
...Crimson team which lost to Princeton at the Harvard Club in Boston consisted of Rogber C. Henselman '42, William C. Murphy '42, and Arthur Northrop '42. Winners over Yale at New Haven were Payson Wolff '42, Harold Bailin '43, and Thomas J. O'Toole...
Fighter planemakers quickly fell in line. Bell Aircraft, almost strike-shut a fortnight ago, announced it was going on a 24-hour day, seven days a week. Northrop did likewise. Curtiss-Wright boasted that its pursuit-plane output had hit a new record. Little Republic Aviation this week jumped to an around-the-clock basis v. two 50-hour shifts previously. United Aircraft reshuffled all its plans, announced that the $26,000,000 it will raise from a preferred stock sale (TIME, Dec. 8) will now go for wartime expansion, instead of post-war contraction...
...Jack Northrop's account, all her virtues are usable in a bigger design. Biggest of all virtues is that the flying wing, shedding her tail, has some 40% less wind resistance than a normal design. Her pilot and engine are buried in her thick wing. Except for her propeller-shaft housings, every square inch of her body goes into lift. Thanks to this economy, the Northrop's design can get the same speed with half the horsepower of conventional planes, or with the same horsepower can turn out 25-30% more speed. It is also lighter, less complicated...