John Cashen
1 aircraft·Northrop Grumman·1989
John Cashen was the Northrop Grumman programme manager and chief designer of the B-2 Spirit, the world's only stealth strategic bomber. The B-2's flying-wing shape, first conceived by Jack Northrop in the 1940s, was finally made practical by fly-by-wire computers and composite materials. Cashen's team produced an aircraft with the radar cross-section of a large insect despite a 172-foot wingspan. At over $2 billion per aircraft, the B-2 is the most expensive aircraft ever built.
1980sNorthrop Grumman
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