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Uscfc: Jack Northrop and the Northrop Corporation

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A biographical site about the man responsible for designing the sleek Vega that carried pilots on record-setting flights and for designing planes with a stressed skin over an internal frame.

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flight, planes, transportation
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aviation history, flight history, history of flight, transportation by air, f-1 airplane, jack northrop and the northrop corporation, john northrop, northrop corporation, s-1 airplane, airplane designer, monocoque fuselage consturction, truss-type fuselage construction
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)