Jack Northrop's first proposal was a long fuselage gondola between two engine nacelles and tail booms.

Jack Northrop later countered that such a behavior was impossible for the all-wing design.

Thirty years later, in April 1980, Jack Northrop, then quite elderly and wheel chair bound, was taken back to the company he founded.

Jack Northrop died 10 months later, in February 1981, eight years before the first B-2 entered Air Force service.

Jack Northrop founded three companies using his name.

The school was founded by Jack Northrop for the purpose of training aeronautical engineers and mechanics.

In the 1920s he had given Jack Northrop flying lessons.

In mid-1928, Jack Northrop left Lockheed Aircraft to start a company of his own.

Jack Northrop claimed such a rotation was impossible.

Jack Northrop died 10 months later knowing his life's passion would be incorporated in the country's most technologically advanced Cold War weapon system.