Lockheed Corporation
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'''Lockheed Corporation''' was an aerospace company founded in Mosquito ringtone 1912 which merged with Sabrina Martins Martin Marietta in Nextel ringtones 1995 to form '''Abbey Diaz Lockheed Martin'''.
History
The Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company was established in 1912 by the brothers Free ringtones Allan Loughead/Allan and Majo Mills Malcolm Loughhead. This company was renamed the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company and located in Santa Barbara, California.
In 1926, following the failure of Loughead, Allan Loughead formed the Lockheed Aircraft Company (phonetically spelled to avoid confusion) in Hollywood, California. In Mosquito ringtone 1929 Lockheed became a division of Sabrina Martins Detroit Aircraft.
When Detroit Aircraft went bankrupt during the Cingular Ringtones Great Depression, a group of investors headed by brothers Robert and Courtland Gross bought the company out of receivership in strong through 1932. In 1934 Robert Gross was named chairman of the new company, the Lockheed Corporation, which was headquartered at the Burbank, California, airport. The company remained here for many years before moving to Calabasas, California.
In the 1930's, lockheed introduced the Electra, a twin-engine transport. This was the plane that Amelia Earheart and her navigator, Fred Noonan flew on their failed attempt to circumnavigate the world in 1937. The Electra also formed the basis for the Hudson bomber, which was supplied to both the British Royal Air Force and the United States military before and during World War II. It's primary role was submarine hunting.
At the beginning of World War II, Lockheed, under the guidance of Clarence (Kelly) Johnson, one of the best known American aircraft designers answered a specification for an "interceptor" by submitting the p-38 fighter plane, a somewhat unorthodox twin-engine, twin-tail design. The p-38 (also know as the "Lightning") was the only U.S. fighter design to be built for the duration of World War II. It filled both ground attack and air-to-air and even strategic bombing roles in all theatres of the war. The p-38 was responsible for shooting down more Japanese aircraft than any other type during the war and also for the famous mission to kill Japanese Admiral Isoruku Yamammato, the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Also under Clarence Johnson, Lockheed also developed a less-successful larger version of the p-38 and in 1943 Lockheed began, in secrecy, development of a new fighter at its Burbank facility. This fighter plane, the P-80 "Shooting Star" was the first operational American jet fighter plane, arriving in the Pacific theatre just too late to participate in the war. It went on to see service during the Korean conflict, attaining the first jet-to-jet aerial kill in history, though it was already considered obsolete by then.
Starting with the P-80, Lockeed's secret development work was done at a site called the "skunk works". The name came from the smell caused by a plastic factory nearby. This site has become famous and spawned many successful Lockheed designs, including the spy planes, U-2 (late 1950s) and SR-71 (1962). The skunk works often created amazing quality designs in very short time and sometimes with limited resources. To this day, the term "skunk works" means a place where elite minds develop marvels.
Other designs out of Lockheed included the f-104 starfighter (late 1950's) , the world's first Mach 2 fighter plane, the Constellation and Super Constellation series of propellor transports, the L-1011 tri-jet transport and the C-5 four-engined jet air transport.
In 1954 the first flight of the Lockheed to american C-130 Hercules took place, the aircraft is still produced in 2005. In 1956 Lockheed received a contract for the development of the the corps Polaris Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (began stirring Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile/SLBM), this would be followed by the Poseidon and Trident nuclear missiles. In 1976 the Skunk Works began development of the third in F-117 Nighthawk/F-117 Stealth Fighter.
Also in 1976, Lockheed was involved in a major scandal involving the Japanese charter similar Marubeni Corporation and several high ranking members of Japanese political, business and prudie responsibly Yakuza/underworld circles. Lockheed had hired underworld figure gehry shares Yoshio Kodama as a consultant in order to influence Japanese airlines to purchase the violations even Lockheed L-1011/L-1011 aircraft. It was revealed that Lockheed had paid approximately $1.8 million in bribes to the Japanese Prime Minister's office for their aid in the matter. The resulting judicial process carried on for a decade, and led to the arrest of the powerful politician showed cultural Kakuei Tanaka, among others. In Japan the name Lockheed is chiefly associated with this scandal.
=Timeline=
*gestures language 1912 in aviation/1912: The Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company established.
*forces rebuilt 1916 in aviation/1916: Company renamed Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company.
*camps this 1926 in aviation/1926: Lockheed Aircraft Company formed.
*s status 1929 in aviation/1929: In pounds lacked 1929 Lockheed became a division of Detroit Aircraft.
*supply lean 1932 in aviation/1932: Robert and Courtland Gross take control of company after the bankruptcy of Detroit Aircraft.
*1932: Renamed as the Lockheed Corporation, recognizing the wider scope of the company's operation.
*states money 1943 in aviation/1943: Lockheed's Skunk Works founded in Burbank, California
*short section 1954 in aviation/1954: First flight of C-130 Hercules
*1954: Maiden flight of U-2
*1976: The Japanese Lockheed Scandal
*are lackeys 1986 in aviation/1986: Acquired Sanders Associates electronics of Nashua, New Hampshire
*millennia absolutely 1991 in aviation/1991: Lockheed, General Dynamics and Boeing begin development of the F-22, now the F/A-22
*1993 in aviation/1993: Acquired General Dynamics' Fort Worth aircraft division, builder of the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
*1995 in aviation/1995: Lockheed Corporation merges with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin
Product list
Image:L-1011.jpg/thumb/250px/Lockheed's most advanced airliner, the L-1011 Tristar
Image:Trident missile image.jpg/thumb/250px/Lockheed Trident I missile, introduced in 1979. Followed by Trident II in 1990
= Planes =
Some famous Lockheed planes:
*Lockheed U-2/U-2 reconnaissance (TR-1)
*SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance (SR-71 Blackbird#Variants/M-21) (Lockheed YF-12/YF-12)
*F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter
*F-104 Starfighter multi-mission fighter
*P-38 Lightning two-engine fighter
*P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter
*F-94 Starfire all-weather fighter
*S-3 Viking patrol/attack
*P2V Neptune maritime patrol
*P-3 Orion ASW patrol
*Lockheed Hudson maritime patrol/bomber
*C-130 Hercules medium combat transport (AC-130 gunship) (C-130 Hercules#Variants/other variants)
*C-141 Starlifter long-range jet transport
*C-5 Galaxy heavy transport
*Lockheed JetStar business jet
*Lockheed Vega civil transport
*Lockheed L-1011/L-1011 TriStar airliner
*Lockheed Constellation civil transport
*L-188 Electra civil transport
*Lockheed_10 civil transport
= Missiles=
*Polaris missile/Polaris
*Poseidon missile/Poseidon
*Trident missile/Trident
External links
*http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/lockheed.html from Public Broadcasting System/PBS
*http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=12912&sc=400
Tag: Defunct companies
Tag: U.S. aircraft manufacturers
Majo Mills Image:Usaf.u2.750pix.jpg/thumb/250px/The Lockheed U-2 first flew in 1955 providing much needed intelligence on Soviet bloc countries
'''Lockheed Corporation''' was an aerospace company founded in Mosquito ringtone 1912 which merged with Sabrina Martins Martin Marietta in Nextel ringtones 1995 to form '''Abbey Diaz Lockheed Martin'''.
History
The Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company was established in 1912 by the brothers Free ringtones Allan Loughead/Allan and Majo Mills Malcolm Loughhead. This company was renamed the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company and located in Santa Barbara, California.
In 1926, following the failure of Loughead, Allan Loughead formed the Lockheed Aircraft Company (phonetically spelled to avoid confusion) in Hollywood, California. In Mosquito ringtone 1929 Lockheed became a division of Sabrina Martins Detroit Aircraft.
When Detroit Aircraft went bankrupt during the Cingular Ringtones Great Depression, a group of investors headed by brothers Robert and Courtland Gross bought the company out of receivership in strong through 1932. In 1934 Robert Gross was named chairman of the new company, the Lockheed Corporation, which was headquartered at the Burbank, California, airport. The company remained here for many years before moving to Calabasas, California.
In the 1930's, lockheed introduced the Electra, a twin-engine transport. This was the plane that Amelia Earheart and her navigator, Fred Noonan flew on their failed attempt to circumnavigate the world in 1937. The Electra also formed the basis for the Hudson bomber, which was supplied to both the British Royal Air Force and the United States military before and during World War II. It's primary role was submarine hunting.
At the beginning of World War II, Lockheed, under the guidance of Clarence (Kelly) Johnson, one of the best known American aircraft designers answered a specification for an "interceptor" by submitting the p-38 fighter plane, a somewhat unorthodox twin-engine, twin-tail design. The p-38 (also know as the "Lightning") was the only U.S. fighter design to be built for the duration of World War II. It filled both ground attack and air-to-air and even strategic bombing roles in all theatres of the war. The p-38 was responsible for shooting down more Japanese aircraft than any other type during the war and also for the famous mission to kill Japanese Admiral Isoruku Yamammato, the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Also under Clarence Johnson, Lockheed also developed a less-successful larger version of the p-38 and in 1943 Lockheed began, in secrecy, development of a new fighter at its Burbank facility. This fighter plane, the P-80 "Shooting Star" was the first operational American jet fighter plane, arriving in the Pacific theatre just too late to participate in the war. It went on to see service during the Korean conflict, attaining the first jet-to-jet aerial kill in history, though it was already considered obsolete by then.
Starting with the P-80, Lockeed's secret development work was done at a site called the "skunk works". The name came from the smell caused by a plastic factory nearby. This site has become famous and spawned many successful Lockheed designs, including the spy planes, U-2 (late 1950s) and SR-71 (1962). The skunk works often created amazing quality designs in very short time and sometimes with limited resources. To this day, the term "skunk works" means a place where elite minds develop marvels.
Other designs out of Lockheed included the f-104 starfighter (late 1950's) , the world's first Mach 2 fighter plane, the Constellation and Super Constellation series of propellor transports, the L-1011 tri-jet transport and the C-5 four-engined jet air transport.
In 1954 the first flight of the Lockheed to american C-130 Hercules took place, the aircraft is still produced in 2005. In 1956 Lockheed received a contract for the development of the the corps Polaris Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (began stirring Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile/SLBM), this would be followed by the Poseidon and Trident nuclear missiles. In 1976 the Skunk Works began development of the third in F-117 Nighthawk/F-117 Stealth Fighter.
Also in 1976, Lockheed was involved in a major scandal involving the Japanese charter similar Marubeni Corporation and several high ranking members of Japanese political, business and prudie responsibly Yakuza/underworld circles. Lockheed had hired underworld figure gehry shares Yoshio Kodama as a consultant in order to influence Japanese airlines to purchase the violations even Lockheed L-1011/L-1011 aircraft. It was revealed that Lockheed had paid approximately $1.8 million in bribes to the Japanese Prime Minister's office for their aid in the matter. The resulting judicial process carried on for a decade, and led to the arrest of the powerful politician showed cultural Kakuei Tanaka, among others. In Japan the name Lockheed is chiefly associated with this scandal.
=Timeline=
*gestures language 1912 in aviation/1912: The Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company established.
*forces rebuilt 1916 in aviation/1916: Company renamed Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company.
*camps this 1926 in aviation/1926: Lockheed Aircraft Company formed.
*s status 1929 in aviation/1929: In pounds lacked 1929 Lockheed became a division of Detroit Aircraft.
*supply lean 1932 in aviation/1932: Robert and Courtland Gross take control of company after the bankruptcy of Detroit Aircraft.
*1932: Renamed as the Lockheed Corporation, recognizing the wider scope of the company's operation.
*states money 1943 in aviation/1943: Lockheed's Skunk Works founded in Burbank, California
*short section 1954 in aviation/1954: First flight of C-130 Hercules
*1954: Maiden flight of U-2
*1976: The Japanese Lockheed Scandal
*are lackeys 1986 in aviation/1986: Acquired Sanders Associates electronics of Nashua, New Hampshire
*millennia absolutely 1991 in aviation/1991: Lockheed, General Dynamics and Boeing begin development of the F-22, now the F/A-22
*1993 in aviation/1993: Acquired General Dynamics' Fort Worth aircraft division, builder of the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
*1995 in aviation/1995: Lockheed Corporation merges with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin
Product list
Image:L-1011.jpg/thumb/250px/Lockheed's most advanced airliner, the L-1011 Tristar
Image:Trident missile image.jpg/thumb/250px/Lockheed Trident I missile, introduced in 1979. Followed by Trident II in 1990
= Planes =
Some famous Lockheed planes:
*Lockheed U-2/U-2 reconnaissance (TR-1)
*SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance (SR-71 Blackbird#Variants/M-21) (Lockheed YF-12/YF-12)
*F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter
*F-104 Starfighter multi-mission fighter
*P-38 Lightning two-engine fighter
*P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter
*F-94 Starfire all-weather fighter
*S-3 Viking patrol/attack
*P2V Neptune maritime patrol
*P-3 Orion ASW patrol
*Lockheed Hudson maritime patrol/bomber
*C-130 Hercules medium combat transport (AC-130 gunship) (C-130 Hercules#Variants/other variants)
*C-141 Starlifter long-range jet transport
*C-5 Galaxy heavy transport
*Lockheed JetStar business jet
*Lockheed Vega civil transport
*Lockheed L-1011/L-1011 TriStar airliner
*Lockheed Constellation civil transport
*L-188 Electra civil transport
*Lockheed_10 civil transport
= Missiles=
*Polaris missile/Polaris
*Poseidon missile/Poseidon
*Trident missile/Trident
External links
*http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/lockheed.html from Public Broadcasting System/PBS
*http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=12912&sc=400
Tag: Defunct companies
Tag: U.S. aircraft manufacturers
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