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North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and built several notable aircraft and spacecraft.
North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service Module, the second stage of the ...
Oct 13, 2023 · North American pilot A. Scott Crossfield had the primary responsibility for carrying out the initial test flights of the X-15 before handover to NASA and the Air Force.
North American P-51 Mustang. Among one of the most famous fighters of World War II, the P-51 Mustang has its roots in both Britain and the USA. Originally overlooked by the USAAF, the P-51 did not see action with American forces until March 1943.
On December 7, 1940, the U.S. Army Air Corps announced that the Fairfax Industrial District in Kansas City, Kansas, would host a North American Aviation B-25 bomber production plant to prepare for the possibility of the United States entering World War II.
…built in the 1950s by North American Aviation, Inc., for the U.S. military and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in order to gather information on flight conditions beyond the atmosphere.
Constructed and staffed in just thirteen months and operating between 1941 and 1945, Kansas City's North American Aviation was an aircraft manufacturing plant that produced many of the B-25 bombers used by the United States military during WWII.
In November 1961, NASA awarded North American Aviation the $400 million prime contract to design and build 1) the Apollo CSM, 2) a small rocket system to test Apollo's launch escape system, and 3) the second stage of the Saturn V launch rocket.
Jan 20, 2016 · This joint program by NASA, the Air Force, the Navy, and North American operated the most remarkable of all the rocket research aircraft. North American Aviation manufactured 3 airframes. They flew a total of 199 flights between 1959-1968.
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