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The Northrop F-89 Scorpion is an all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Northrop Corporation.It was the first jet-powered aircraft to be designed for the interceptor role from the outset to enter service, [1] as well as the first combat aircraft to be armed with air-to-air nuclear weapons in the form of the unguided Genie rocket.
59th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Northrop F-89D Scorpions in formation. The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was a subsonic second-generation jet interceptor of the United States Air Force. After a long development during the postwar era of the late 1940s, it began reaching operational units in the early 1950s.
It was equipped with the Northrop F-89J Scorpion jet interceptor, armed with nuclear AIR-2 Genie rockets. [citation needed] Two 141st fighters crashed during the winter of 1961/62. On 28 December 1961, an F-89 Scorpion lost power and crashed approach to Geiger Field. [2] Both pilots were killed.
1950s squadron patch 57th FIS F-89 Scorpions in 1959. In March 1953, the squadron was reactivated as the 57th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, flying Northrop F-89 Scorpions. [15] It was activated at Presque Isle Air Force Base, Maine as the 528th Air Defense Group's second operational squadron. [7]
It was there that the P-61 Black Widow night fighter, the B-35 and YB-49 experimental flying wing bombers, the F-89 Scorpion interceptor, the SM-62 Snark intercontinental cruise missile, and the F-5 Freedom Fighter economical jet fighter (and its derivative, the successful T-38 Talon trainer) were developed and built. [1]
[citation needed] It was assigned the 84th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (FIS), flying 20mm cannon armed and airborne intercept radar equipped Northrop F-89 Scorpion aircraft [13] from the 28th Air Division as its operational element. [14] The 84th FIS was already stationed at Hamilton. [15]
The 58th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (FIS), flying Northrop F-89 Scorpion aircraft, [6] and the 60th FIS, flying Lockheed F-94 Starfire aircraft, [7] former squadrons of the 33rd Fighter Group, were reassigned to the 4735th.
As the drone circled slowly over Santa Paula, the Scorpion pilots waited for it to fly over an unpopulated area so they could attack with their "Mighty Mouse" 2.75-inch folding-fin rockets. [5] F-89D loaded with rockets. 114th Fighter Interceptor Group, headquartered at Sioux Falls, in 1958. The two crews discussed attack options.