CAPABILITIES NORTHROP AIRCRAFT 1960s PROMO FILM SNARK MISSILE F-89 SCORPION T-38 TRAINER 79234

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This color educational/promotional film is about products made by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. and its various divisions, emphasizing the high tech manufacture and testing of components for aircraft and missiles. This is circa the late 1950s, as the Snark missile which is shown was deployed 1958-1961. Opening titles: Northrop Aircraft, Inc., Nortronics Division in Anaheim and Hawthorne, California, Radioplane in El Paso, Texas and Van Nuys, California, Northrop Division in Hawthorne (:06-:47). A Cushman scooter moves fast around the property, passes a Snark missile. Test Laboratories building. Test Laboratory. Engineers work inside. A model of a plane being tested in a wind tunnel and altitude chamber. Types of machines are tested: C-100s, electro-hydraulic shaker machines. Men draw up planes in an office. Contour milling equipment. In