With its first flight on 3 July 1945, the two-place Northrop F-15 Reporter was designed to do a photo-reconnaissance job only converted bombers formerly could do. Carryin six cameras in the nose, with 24 optional set-ups, it can "shoot" from seven miles up, has a range of 4,000 miles and a speed in excess of 440 m.p.h. Its mission to photograph the Korean Peninsula was vital to the war that followed. Only 36 were built. The plane was retired in 1968.
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