Northrop 8x10 Official Photo WW2 1944 JB-1 MX-543 BAT Twin Jet Buzz Bomb for Sale

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Northrop 8x10 Official Photo WW2 1944 JB-1 MX-543 BAT Twin Jet Buzz Bomb For Sale

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Northrop 8x10 Official Photo WW2 1944 JB-1 MX-543 BAT Twin Jet Buzz Bomb:
$19.98

Northrop 8x10 Official Photo WW2 1944 JB-1 MX-543 BAT Twin Jet Buzz Bomb
There are no tears in the photo. The edges have crimps. The photo itself has numerous pressure marks but the do not pierce the emulsion. Overall, a nice photo. The description from Northrop, dated 1963, describes the history and had been attached to the back or the photo on hinges. History:
In 1944 Jack Northrop proposed to the USAAF a pioltless flying wing designed to deliver a war head of up to 2,000 lb of high explosive over a range of 400 miles. Powered by two GE turbojets with 400 lb of thrust each, housed in the central fuselage with the explosive in two pods ether side of the fuselage.The missile was to be launched from a trolley mounted on a pair of rails, using rocket boosters. On 1/7/1944 Northrop received a contract for three JB-1\'s, one to be a piloted glider, known as the MX-543 \"Bat\" to test the aerodynamics of the design as well as the guidance system and two prototypes fitted with engines. The MX-543 \"Bat\" first flew on the 27/8/1944 and past a successful test program