The P-61 Black Widow remains one of the most chilling and fascinating aircraft to have ever flown during World War II. As the ...

The P-61's first confirmed kill occurred on July 6, 1944, when a Black Widow from the 6th Night Fighter Squadron shot down a Japanese Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber. The P-61 racked up an ...

P-61 Black Widow: America’s First Radar Night-Fighter That Changed WWII. Though only 706 Northrop P-61 Black Widows were produced, and it only saw service in the final year of the Second World ...

The P-61 made its first test flight in May 1942 and it began to enter service in late 1943 where it was operated effectively as a night-fighter by the U.S. Army Air Forces and was used in the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII: P-61 "Mauler" Black Widow The P-61 Black Widow was a capable and deadly night-fighter. The Mauler trades in its bombs ...

A Northrop P-61 Black Widow firing all four Browning .50 caliber machine guns in the top turret along with the Hispano 20 mm cannons in the lower forward fuselage while on the ground at night.

Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was late to the war. The fighter-bomber didn’t fly its first combat mission until June 1944, when it penetrated German airspace to bomb and strafe trains, railways ...

The P-61 Black Widow was the first U.S. aircraft designed to locate and destroy enemy aircraft at night and in bad weather, a feat made possible by the use of on-board radar. The prototype first flew ...

An apparent twin-boom design, like, say, America's first-ever night fighter aircraft, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow from the Second World War, the Aerosonde will sure be a peculiar sight in the sky.

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum preserves aviation history by restoring WWII aircraft, including a rare P-61 Black Widow and a B-25 Mitchell bomber. Learn about the six-year mission to recover a P-61 ...

Headed south toward Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, he took the unpressurized airplane, a Northrop P-61 Black Widow, to an altitude of 41,000 feet.