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Jack Northrop Hit His Targets; Wing It: The innovator kept the military flying high with the B-2 and other aircraft.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: BRIAN DEAGON
Nearly three decades after he retired, an ailing Jack Northrop got a call from a top official at the company he founded -- Northrop Corp. -- that would fulfill a lifelong dream.
It was 1980, and Northrop was invited back to see one of the nation's most top-secret projects.
Thomas Jones, then chief executive, ushered him into a room and unveiled the contents of a box. It was a model of the Advanced Tactical Fighter, what would become the B-2 bomber many years later.
Northrop's eyes welled with tears. "Now I know why God has kept me alive for the last 25 years," he said.
The next year, John K. Northrop, called Jack, died at the age of 85. But his vision and skill as an aircraft designer lived on.
When the B-2 rolled on the tarmac in 1989, the wing's length was within one foot of the original Flying Wing that Northrop unveiled to the Air Force in 1947. The B-2 looked remarkably similar to his Flying Wing, a project he experimented with starting in the 1920s.
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