Jack Northrop
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John Knudsen Northrop was an American aircraft industrialist and designer who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939.
Northrop with the XB-35, circa 1948
Red Lockheed Vega 5b flown by Amelia Earhart in breaking two world records.
Quetzalcoatlus
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Quetzalcoatlus is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in North America. The type specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation of T
Jack Northrop
…inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2003. Northrop's passion for tailless flight was honored by the naming of a giant tailless pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus northropi. Hawthorne Municipal Airport is also known as Jack Northrop Field in his honor…
Quetzalcoatlus northropi
The known fossils of Quetzalcoatlus were discovered in Big Bend National Park, Texas
The name of Q. northropi refers to its similar appearance to aircraft designed by John Knudsen Northrop
Skeleton reconstruction of Quetzalcoatlus at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum, originally mounted by Langston in the 1980s