Yeah, it was amazing how vindictive and vengeful Symington was.
Jack Northrop must have pissed him off. Wasn’t a good little boy, went off the rez.
One of my great uncle’s went to work for Northrop in 1939 in Hawthorne. Was like employee #7 or something; had a picture of him and all the originals out in front of the Northrop office. Still cant find that damn pic...anyway he told me about Symington chopping up the airframes back in like ‘69, and I couldn’t understand why anyone would do that. Northrop had big plans to turn them into civilian airliners too, but needed the AF contracts to make it happen. Think of the world we would have had if he had gotten to do that.
About the only good thing that Convair / General Dynamics came up with was the F-16. Everything else was pretty much generic crap.
You’ve probably seen this?