Northrop P-61 "Black Widow" - (scan - 1996)

US interest in night fighters aroused in 1940 following German night bomber raids on UK. P-61 was first aircraft designed around airborne radar system developed initially in UK and further developed by MIT. It was also the first US fighter with 2 4-bladed props and was about same size as the North American B-25.


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