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... in the new Lockheed Aircraft Company. Here he designed the remarkable Vega series of airplanes, characterized by monocoque fuselage and unusual aerodynamic refinement.
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... Under Mr. Northrop's direction until 1939, this division produced a long series of efficient and successful military aircraft.
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... JOHN KNUDSEN NORTHROP 231 of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, and was President of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1948. He was awarded the President's Certificate of Merit of the U.S.A., the Spir?


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