It was supposed to save lives - but it became a death trap. The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was an early Cold War interceptor ...

The all-weather, twin-engine Northrop F-89 Scorpion was the first jet-powered interceptor aircraft designed specifically for that role to enter service with the Air Defense Command. The two-seat ...

Discover the story of the F-89 Scorpion, America’s first jet to fire an air-to-air nuclear missile. Built to stop Soviet bombers cold, this aircraft was paired with a missile so powerful it was ...

F-89J Scorpion and the Nuclear Genie: A Cold War Tale Starting in 1957, 350 F-89Ds were converted to the F-89J model capable of hefting two of the 820-pound Genie rockets, each under its prominent ...

The classic Cold War design of the F-89 Scorpion was the product of a 1945 USAAF specification for a night fighter. The aircraft was to have a crew of two with an offensive armament of six 20mm ...

Video shot in 1955 from the WKOW news archive shows training flights in the F-89 Scorpion. The flights were filmed two years after WKOW went on the air and only three years after Truax Field became ...

The F-89 Scorpion was originally built in 1948 by American aircraft manufacturer Northup Grumman and was an early American, subsonic, all-weather and jet-powered interceptor built after World War ...

Robert F. Jason, 64, a veteran of the Air Force and a longtime employee of Northrop Defense Systems in Rolling Meadows, died Monday in his Mt. Prospect home. Born in Chicago, Mr. Jason served in th… ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation ( NOC) received a contract from the U.S. army to provide SCORPION and SCORPION II Unattended Ground Sensor (:UGS) systems. Under the terms of this indefinite delivery ...