Jack Northrop
@jacknorthrop
American aircraft industrialist and designer, founder of Northrop Corporation (1895–1981)
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Key facts
- Lived
- 1895–1981
- Educated at
- Santa Barbara High School
About
Jack Northrop (1895–1981) was a military flight engineer and engineer. They were born in Newark. They studied at Santa Barbara High School.
In context
Northrop was founded in 1939 and closed in 1994, after 55 years. Among the 23 other aerospace industry companies founded in the 1930s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 38 years, so this one outlasted most of them.
Contribution
Jack's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.