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Title: Northrop's X-216H plane
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The Northrop "Flight Wing" X-216H getting ready for take-off at Union Airport (Bob Hope Airport) in Burbank. Jack Northrop, who designed the plane, felt that going with an all-wing aircraft would significantly increase overall performance. By 1929 he had produced the X-216H which, while it still used a small twin-boom tail, included a more refined wing and became the first successful example of an all-wing plane. Photo dated: December 13, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069744
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Airplanes.
CARL0000073596
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110196
Subject: Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Northrop aircraft
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Northrop Corporation
Source: Smith, Robyn.

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