P-61 Black Widow
| P-61 Black Widow |
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Northrop P-61 |
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| Role | |
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| Engines: 2 x Pratt & Whitney R-2800-10 Double Wasp | |
| Power: 2000 hp each | | |
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The Northrop P-61 Black Widow was the first American aircraft designed specifically as a radar-equipped night fighter. 700 were built, and they saw service in the Pacific from May 1944 onwards and over Europe from June. They were designed to carry the centimetric SCR-720 radar, but took over three years of development work to perfect.
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Aircraft Types | List of aircraft | List of military aircraft of the United States | List of military aircraft of the United States of America | List of vertical lift aircraft | Lockheed P-38 | Northrop | Northrop Corporation | P-38 | P-38 Lightning
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