Deze jager heeft in een latere uitvoering pijlstelling in het stabilo en een afterburner naverbrander. Lockheed bouwde enkele opvallende vliegtuigen.
De U-2 bijvoorbeeld, een spionagetoestel, dat destijds in het nieuws kwam omdat het door Gary Powers bestuurde vliegtuig boven Russisch grondgebied neergehaald werd. De Amerikaanse luchtmacht, toch al een trouwe klant, ontwikkelde daaruit de , een snelle aanvalsjager. Ook de Hercules C, een transporttoestel, mag niet onvermeld blijven, evenmin als de F Starfighter, inmiddels opgevolgd door de F, die ook alweer op de nominatie staat voor vervanging.
Ook op het gebied van helikopters weet Lockheed van wanten. Men bouwde onder meer de , zwaar bewapend voor de oorlogsvoering in Vietnam en als eerste helikopter ter wereld uitgerust met een vaste vleugel. Ook de vijfpersoons , een van de snelste helikopters, werd ontworpen en gebouwd door Lockheed. Uit de sector van de burgerluchtvaart kunnen genoemd worden: de Electra, de Constellation en de Super-Constellation, al tijdens hun bestaan een begrip.
In Nederland kwam de Nederlandse prins-gemaal Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld in opspraak doordat hij voor 1,1 miljoen US-dollar aan steekpenningen van Lockheed had aangenomen in de zogenaamde Lockheed-affaire. The Lockheed U-2 , which first flew in , provided intelligence on Soviet bloc countries. The Lockheed SR The Lockheed C Hercules serves as the primary tactical transport for many military forces worldwide. In , Lockheed began, in secrecy, development of a new jet fighter at its Burbank facility.
This fighter, the Lockheed P Shooting Star , became the first American jet fighter to score a kill. It also recorded the first jet-to-jet aerial kill, downing a MiG in Korea, although by this time the F as it came to be known in June was already considered obsolete.
Starting with the P, Lockheed's secret development work was conducted by its Advanced Development Division, more commonly known as the Skunk Works. The name was taken from Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner. This organization has become famous and has spawned many successful Lockheed designs, including the U-2 late s , SR Blackbird and F Nighthawk stealth fighter s. The Skunk Works often created high quality designs in a short time and sometimes with limited resources.
In , the Lockheed C Hercules , a durable four-engined transport, flew for the first time. The type remains in production to present day. Lockheed developed the F Starfighter in late s, the world's first Mach 2 fighter jet. In the early s, the company introduced the C Starlifter four-engine jet transport. During the s, Lockheed began development for two large aircraft: the C-5 Galaxy military transport and the L TriStar wide-body civil airliner.
Both projects encountered delays and cost overruns. The C-5 was built to unclear initial requirements and suffered from structural weaknesses, which Lockheed was forced to correct at its own expense. The C-5 and L projects, along with the canceled U. Army AH Cheyenne Helicopter program and embroiled shipbuilding contracts, caused Lockheed to lose large sums of money during the s. Drowning in debt, in Lockheed then the largest US defense contractor asked the US Government for a loan guarantee, to avoid insolvency.
The measure was hotly debated in the US Senate. Following a fierce debate, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew cast a tie-breaking vote in favor of the measure. The Lockheed bribery scandals were a series of illegal bribes and contributions made by Lockheed officials from the late s to the s.
In late and early , a sub-committee of the U. Senate led by Senator Frank Church concluded that members of the Lockheed board had paid members of friendly governments to guarantee contracts for military aircraft. The scandal caused considerable political controversy in West Germany , the Netherlands, Italy and Japan.
In the US, the scandal led to passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act , and nearly led to the ailing corporation's downfall it was already struggling due to the poor sales of the L airliner.
Haughton resigned his post as chairman. In the late s, leveraged buyout specialist Harold Simmons conducted a widely publicized but unsuccessful takeover attempt on the Lockheed Corporation, after having gradually acquired almost 20 percent of its stock. Analysts said he might want to liquidate the plan and pay out the excess funds to shareholders, including himself.
Over one hundred years ago, on August 16, , Glenn L. Martin established the Glenn L. Martin Company in Los Angeles, California. He started the company after building his first plane in a rented church, where he took a leap of faith on his risky but innovative new aircraft design at the urging of none other than Orville Wright. Talented mechanics, they set up shop out of a garage, constructing seaplanes that would shatter speed and distance records for overwater flights. A church and a garage.
These were humble beginnings. But these were also men of unrelenting vision and unwavering purpose. The gift that Martin and the Lockheed brothers shared was a unique ability to look past the obstacles of today to the promise of a brighter tomorrow. Airbus Group NV history, profile and history video Airbus Group NV manufactures and sells commercial and military aircraft, civil and military helicopters, commercial space launch vehicles, missiles, satellites, and
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