Five men, Whitekamp (surname only), Roy Brown, Tom Quayle and Ed Heinemann, meet and discuss design plans at an Inglewood office used by John K. Northrop of the not yet existent Northrop Corporation. Officially formed in Hawthorne in 1939, Northrop Corporation was reincorporated in Delaware in 1985. In 1994, Northrop Aircraft merged with Grumman Aerospace to create the company Northrop Grumman. Photo dated: October, 1932.
Brown, Roy Quayle, Tom Heinemann, Edward H.,--1908-1991 Northrop Corporation Aeronautical engineers--California--Inglewood Aircraft industry--California--Inglewood Inglewood (Calif.)
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