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Lockheed (1574 words) |
 | The Lockheed Company, one of the giants in the modern aerospace industry, began in 1912 when the Loughead brothers, Allan and Malcolm, formed the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company in San Francisco. |
| The Orion, which featured the NACA cowling and retractable landing gear, was a wooden monoplane that could carry a pilot and six passengers. |
| The 1937 Lockheed 14 Super Electra, designed to compete with the Douglas DC-2 and DC-3, failed as a commercial aircraft in the United States because it had too small a capacity. |
| Russian Military Aircraft Links (3310 words) |
| Lockheed built variants of the T-33 included the AT-33, an armed close air support version delivered to various nations under MAP, and the RT-33, a single seat variant with various reconnaissance sensors in the nose. |
| Lockheeds submission was based on a shortened Electra airliner and this aircraft was selected for development in April 1958. |
| Lockheed has worked to reduce assembly costs, adopting a modular assembly process, and has also kept pressure on its suppliers (who also have a financial stake in the program through funding the development of their own products for the C-130J) to keep costs down. |
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