Friday, July 15, 2005
Friday Night Airplane Blogging
The Northrup P-61 "Black Widow"was the US Air Corps first purpose built night fighter. With the twin engine, twin boom construction, it was similar to the P-38 but considerably larger. It carried a crew of three, radar in its nose and 4 20 mm guns in a lower turret and 4 .50 cal machine guns in the top turret. With its two Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engines it had a maximum speed of over 400 mph. Though it came late to the war, it performed effectivly in the various roles assigned to it.
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