Northrop P-61 Black Widow

Northrop P-61 Black Widow aircraft profile

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Please avoid uploading an image over 2MB. Your Account x. Menu x. New arrivals Three P squadrons were operating in the Pacific theater by mid At the time the Japanese, unable to face up to American air superiority in daylight, were performing nuisance night raids on American installations.

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Once the Black Widow went into service, the raiders increasingly failed to come back home. With their heavy armament, if they could find the target, they could usually kill it very quickly.

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As Japanese night raids began to fade out, the Black Widows were increasingly used in the ground-attack role. They used cannon as well as napalm bombs and rockets for the attacks. Late in the war, a B was forced to shoot down a "friendly" Boeing B Superfortress returning to base on Iwo Jima after a raid on Osaka. The B had been hit by flak, killing the pilot, badly injuring the copilot, and ensuring that the aircraft could not drop its bombs.

There was no way it could be safely landed, so the crew bailed out over Iwo Jima, and the P then engaged it to make sure it went into the drink. The Superfortress proved amazingly durable as the Black Widow chewed it up, but the bomber finally went into the sea. Ps destroyed at least nine V-1s, a small part of the total destroyed. One P pilot destroyed a V-1 at close range, to have it blow up in his face; the aircraft came back down with burn damage.

With the Luftwaffe running out of fuel, the Ps didn't have too much opportunity to score aerial kills, but they kept busy in the night ground-attack role. They were good at busting trains at night, and performed heavy combat during the Battle of the Bulge late in Two Black Widow crews in Europe became "aces", scoring six kills, including a V-1 kill for each crew; one crew in the Pacific also became aces, with five kills:.

There were no real foreign users of the P The US Navy had planned to obtain the P for use by the Marines off of land bases, but decided instead to obtain the carrier-capable Grumman F7F Tigercat as a night-fighter. Immediately after the end of the war, the Marines did obtain a dozen hand-me-down PBs for use as radar trainers for Tigercat aircrew, under the designation of "F2T-1N". They were withdrawn from service in Northrop engineers had originally considered turbocharged engines, but worried they would cut into range and endurance.

However, the need for speed outweighed that concern.

Since Northrop was focused on the XB flying-wing bomber at the time, work on the PC was conducted at low priority, and in fact much of the PC effort was farmed out to Goodyear of Akron, Ohio, which had previously supplied subassemblies for Black Widow production. The first production "PC-1" wasn't rolled out until early It could be distinguished from earlier P variants by the prominent bulges for the turbochargers under the engine nacelles.

It also featured big A. Smith four-bladed paddle propellers to handle the extra power.

Beware the Black Widow

The PC was built with perforated airbrakes above and below the wings to prevent a pilot from overshooting a target during a fast intercept -- but during a test of the airbrakes, they tore the wings off the aircraft, the pilot managing to bail out safely, and so they were rendered nonfunctional in all service aircraft. Performance clearly improved, the machine being capable of KPH MPH at altitude, even though the empty weight of the aircraft had increased by about kilograms 2, pounds. Ceiling was raised to 12, meters 41, feet , and climb rate was substantially faster as well.

However, the greater weight made the PC also less agile, heavier on the controls, and reluctant to get off the runway. Initial flight of the first was in November By this time, the Germans had finished experimenting with jet engines, and the infamous Messerschmitt was beginning to plague the Allied air force.

The P arrived too late.

The P-61, the Beaufighter, and the first air war fought in the dark.

It was still more than capable of coping with anything the Japanese Air Force had, but in Europe, the design was considered obsolete. Slowly it began to suppress the Black Widow into the reserves where it mainly served as a training aircraft. The designers of the P tried to improve it as much as possible. A smaller AI device was installed, improving the remote controlled turret. Turbochargers were also added, but the aircraft was still lagging behind regarding speed.

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