North American Aviation

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, F-86D Sabre Dog, F-100 Super Sabre; bombnikih B-25 Mitchell, nad zvočnem 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 in Commander 112/114.

North American Aviation

Panoga	Letalstvo
Ustanovitev	1928
Ukinitev	Marec 1967
Usoda	Združitev
Naslednik	Rockwell International
Sedež	ZDA, Los Angeles
Krovno podjetje	General Motors 1933–48

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.