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...supply a "silent" electronic navigation system, Northrop engineers, led by James Campbell, project manager, have borrowed a technique that radio astronomers use to study the sun and the planets. They are tuning in on the faint thermal radio waves that are emitted by every natural body, whether celestial or earthly. At altitudes of less than 1,000 ft., a pair of highly directional antennas pick up that radiation from objects below the plane. And since one antenna points behind the other, it picks up the same radiation at a slightly later time. That time lag, along with the plane...
...contraption looked more like an inverted flat iron than a flying machine. With two tail fins and no wings, a rounded belly and a flat top, the experimental craft M2-F2 was rolled out last week by Northrop's Norair division and turned over to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a series of test flights. M2-F2 is a wingless glider, called the Manned Lifting Body Research Vehicle, designed to be used eventually to ferry astronauts back from space to a dry landing rather than an ocean dunking...
...NATO, Spain last year was given full control of the former U.S. radar defense-warning system, has been promised F-104 fighter-bombers for its air force, plans to zip it up even further, with 70 new F-5 supersonic bombers-to be built in Spain under license from Northrop. Spain still stands in the Common Market waiting room, but it is busily spreading a net of trade agreements all over the world. Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres picked up a fistful of orders by stumping Africa last month, while two of his fellow cabinet members were ringing doorbells in Japan...
Spain recently agreed to buy 70 F-5 jet fighters from Northrop Corp. for $47 million; the planes were originally developed for distribution to U.S. allies under military-assistance pacts. Canada, on the verge of ordering 200 F-5s, is debating whether to switch to the costlier McDonnell F4, whose interceptor model is the hottest in the U.S. inventory, or to the Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, which can land on a carrier. Australia has decided to buy ten Lockheed P-3 Orion antisubmarine planes. West Germany, whose purchases account for nearly half of U.S. foreign arms sales...
...they were small potatoes compared with Serv-U, the Baker-Black-controlled vending-machine firm. Less than 24 months after it qualified to do business in California in January 1962, Serv U had been awarded chunks of the vending business at three major aerospace firms-North American Aviation, Northrop Corp., and Thompson Ramo Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories...