North American Aviation’s Tangled Path to Success
By the time this photo of a Mustang I for the RAF was captured on 4X5 Kodachrome, North American Aviation (NAA) was well established in its Southern California location as a leading manufacturer of trainers and bombers and had a new fighter ready to go to war. But its journey to the sunny warmth and flying weather at Inglewood traced one of the most convoluted journeys of all the manufacturing giants that grew out of...
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