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F-89 Scorpion: The Nuclear-Armed Jet Fighter That Fell Apart Mid-Air

Key Points - The Northrop F-89 Scorpion, the US Air Force's first jet-powered interceptor and the first combat aircraft armed with air-to-air nuclear weapons (the Genie rocket), had a troubled early ...
The Aviationist

With a Variety of Ways to Sting, the F-89 Scorpion Was the First Line of Defense

From cannons to rockets to nuclear-armed ordnance, the F-89 seemed a formidably armed interceptor, protecting North America in the early years of the Cold War from Soviet bomber fleets coming over the ...
The National Interest

F-89 Scorpion: America’s Nuclear-Armed Jet Russia Feared

Here’s What You Need to Know: It was a crazy idea, but also one typical of the Cold War. The all-weather, twin-engine Northrop F-89 Scorpion was the first jet-powered interceptor aircraft designed ...
The National Interest

The F-89 Scorpion Was America’s First Interceptor Jet

Northrop built what would come to be known as the F-89 Scorpion in response to a United States Army Air Force (USAAF) specification issued in August 1945, the very last month of World War II. The new ...
WKOW

Video archive: F-89 Scorpions at Truax Field in 1955

MADISON (WKOW) -- The 115th Fighter Wing of the Wisconsin Air National Guard is will hold it's last evening training flight of the week Thursday night. Training flights with the F-15 fighter jets ...
Argus Leader

Vintage F-89 warplane gifted to Sioux Falls for restoration and display

A piece of warplane history has made its way to Sioux Falls. Actually, make that “pieces.” Members of the South Dakota Air National Guard 114 th Maintenance Group drove three semis 26 hours west to ...