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...Whitley Collins, 56, a tireless, hard-driving financial expert, was elected president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., maker of the F-89D Scorpion, all-weather, rocket-armed interceptor. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Collins started as a banker, was a vice president and general manager of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. by the time he was 31. Today he is still a partner of the Collins-Powell Co., an aircraft-parts sales organization he founded in 1931; president of the Radioplane Co., which he founded in 1938 and which now makes target drones...
...NORTHROP Aircraft, Inc., which had wing troubles that grounded early models of its F-89D Scorpion interceptor, has eliminated the bugs. The Air Force has given Northrop a $155 million contract to produce more of its two-man jets, heaviest-armed (104 rockets) fighters in existence...
...twin-jet Scorpion interceptor-shiningly fresh from Northrop Aircraft Co.'s assembly line-looked like a purposeful insect as it edged out on to the runway at the Ontario (Calif.) International Airport. Few heads turned as it took off at exactly noon one day last week -it was being flown on a routine production test, as a preliminary to being delivered to the Air Force. But two minutes later the airport tower man strained to watch it; the voice of the Scorpion's pilot had just spoken eight chilling words from a loudspeaker at the field...
...however, Gene decided that he had to fly again. Eighteen months ago he went to work for Northrop as a test pilot. He was a good...
...building a light, simple jet fighter, the Gnat, that could be produced in swarms to fight off bombers. Weighing only 5,500 Ibs. (v. 16,500 for the Sabre jet), the Gnat will carry twin 30-mm. cannons, and climb to 40,000 feet in less than five minutes. Northrop, Lockheed and North American have also proposed building lightweight jets, and the Air Force will soon ask U.S. plane builders to submit plans...