North American Aviation

North American Aviation

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Panoga	Letalska, vesoljska, obrambna
Ustanovitev	1928
Ukinitev	Marec 1967
Usoda	Združitev
Naslednik	Rockwell International
Krovno podjetje	General Motors (1933–1948)

North American Aviation je bilo veliko ameriško letalsko-vesoljsko podjetje. Podjetje je ustanovil Clement Melville Keys 6. decembra 1928. North American je znan po letalih: trenažer T-6 Texan, T-28 Trojan, T-2 Buckeye; lovcih P-51 Mustang, F-86 Sabre in F-86D Sabre Dog, F-100 Super Sabre; bombnikih B-25 Mitchell, B-1 Lancer; eksperimentalnih plovilih X-15, XB-70 Valkyrie; vesoljskem programu Space Shuttle, Apollo, servisni in komandni modul in 2. stopnje Saturn V; poslovnem letalu Sabreliner; športnih letalih Ryan Navion, Commander 112/114. Najbolj znan testni pilot družbe North American Aviation je bil letalski as Robert Anderson "Bob" Hoover, ki je še dolga desetletja v pokoju navduševal občinstvo na letalskih mitingih z letali: P-51 Mustang, Shrike Commnader, Sabreliner, Commander 114 in ostalimi, ki jih je originalno testiral, ko so bili še prototipi.

Pozneje je podjetje postalo del Rockwell International, le-ta pa je sedaj del Boeinga.

Letala

NAA F-86D Sabre-Dog Pivka

NAA Commander 112 USAF

B-25 srednji bombnik

NAA P-51 Mustang in Bob Hoover

NAA XB-70 Valkyrie mach 3

F-100 Super Sabre

X-15

• North American A-5 Vigilante
• North American A-27
• North American A-36 Apache
• North American AJ Savage
• Rockwell B-1 Lancer
• North American B-25 Mitchell
• North American B-45 Tornado
• North American BT-9
• North American F-82 Twin Mustang
• North American F-86 Sabre
  • North American F-86D Sabre
• North American F-100 Super Sabre
• Rockwell Commander 112
• North American F-107
• North American FJ-1 Fury
  • North American FJ-2/-3 Fury
  • North American FJ-4 Fury
• L-17 Navion
• North American NA-16
• North American NA-35
• NA-335
• North American O-47
• North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
• North American P-51 Mustang
  • P-51VLR
• North American P-64
• North American T-2 Buckeye
• North American T-6 Texan
• North American T-28 Trojan
• North American T-39 Sabreliner
• North American X-10
• North American X-15
• North American XB-21
• North American XB-28
• North American XB-70 Valkyrie
• North American XF-108 Rapier
• North American YF-93
• North American XA2J Super Savage
• North American XSN2J

Vesoljska plovila

• Apollo Command/Service Module
• North American DC-3
• Skylab Rescue

Rakete

• AGM-28 Hound Dog
• AGM-64 Hornet
• RTV-A-3 NATIV
• SM-64 Navaho
• S-II - druga stopnja nosilne rakete Saturn V
• Little Joe (raketa)
• Little Joe II

Vojaška brezpilotna letala

• North American MQM-42 Redhead-Roadrunner

Bibliografija

• Hagedorn, Dan. North American NA-16/AT-6/SNJ. North Branch, MN: Specialty Press, 1997. ISBN 0-933424-84-1
• Fletcher, David & MacPhail, Doug. Harvard! The North American Trainers in Canada. Dundas, ON: DCF Flying Books,1990. ISBN 0-9693825-0-2
• Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II. Cypress, CA. ISBN 978-0-9897906-0-4.
• Pattillo, Donald M. Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Zunanje povezave

• Boeing.com: North American Aviation history
• Aerospace Legacy Foundation
• AeroWeb: List of NAA aircraft
• ACME, NAA history: documents and photographs archive.
• Autonetics division
• Bright, Charles D., The Jet Makers: The Aerospace Industry From 1945 to 1972, Lawrence, Kansas: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978.