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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft was built by Lockheed Missiles Space Corporation (now Lockheed Martin) in its Sunnyvale, California facility. Since the 1990 launch, Lockheed Martin personnel located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, have helped NASA manage the day-to-day spacecraft operations of the telescope, and provided preparation and training for the telescope’s many servicing missions.
In complete secrecy, a team headed by Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson at Lockheed's "Skunk Works" in Burbank, Calif., designed and built the U-2 to fly surveillance missions. With sailplane-like wings suited for the thin atmosphere above 55,000 feet (over 70,000 feet for later models), this single-engine aircraft made its first flight in August 1955. Entering operational service in 1956, its use remained secret until May 1, 1960, when a surface-to-air missile shot down a civilian-piloted U-2 on a reconnaissance flight over Soviet territory.
One of the most important U-2 missions took place on Oct. 14, 1962, when a U-2 piloted by Maj. Richard S. Heyser obtained the first photographs of Soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba. Eight days later, Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr. was killed on a similar mission when his U-2 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. U-2s have also been used for programs as diverse as mapping studies, atmospheric sampling and collecting crop and land management photographic data for the Department of Energy.
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The above image is a scan from an original Kodachrome™ slide. The default size is 2000 x 1250 pixels, so clicking on the photo will enlarge it for better viewing.
The original image comes from my slide collection, amassed over the past 40+ years. They are a combination of my own photographs and ones acquired through trades or purchases.
I created this Photostream in 2017 for the purpose of holding my slide collection as an archive, as otherwise they would just remain in binders and boxes, not being enjoyed by anyone, myself included.
Comments are welcome.
Aircraft MSN: 5086
Type & Series: Lockheed JetStar-731
Registration: N27RC
Operator: Seagull Aircraft Inc.
Location (when available): Geneva GVA
Remarks: JLA Photo
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On display at Scott Field Heritage Air Park, Scott AFB, Illinois.
Aircraft 65-0236. This aircraft is painted in the C141A "White Top" scheme it carried until it's 1980 "B" conversion. This aircraft supported global airlift, airdrop, and aeromedical missions from 1966 until 1993. One mission of particular note occurred on February 12th, 1973. This aircraft flew to Gia Lam Airport, near Hanoi, North Vietnam on one of the first missions of "Operation Homecoming", the repatriation of American Prisoners of War. Today, this display honors all those who flew and supported the C141 Starlifter, the workhorse of Air Mobility for over 40 years.
This aircraft is on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
(per the display marker)
The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter was a military strategic airlifter in service with the Air Mobility Command (AMC) of the United States Air Force (USAF). The aircraft also served with AMC-gained airlift wings and air mobility wings of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) and the Air National Guard (ANG) and, in later years, one air mobility wing of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) dedicated to C-141, C-5, C-17 and KC-135 training.
Introduced to replace slower piston-engined cargo planes such as the C-124 Globemaster II, the C-141 was designed to requirements set in 1960 and first flew in 1963. Production deliveries of an eventual 285 planes began in 1965: 284 for the Air Force, and one for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for use as an airborne observatory. The aircraft remained in service for over 40 years until the USAF withdrew the last C-141s from service in 2006, after replacing the airlifter with the C-17 Globemaster III.
Lockheed Martin engineers installing NASA JPL’s High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3) – a spectrometer that measures infrared light absorbed by water – on the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission will map water content on the Moon. Credit: Lockheed Martin.
The Darkstar movie prop from the Top Gun: Maverick movie on static display at the Aerospace Valley Airshow 2022 at Edwards Air Force Base. This is Darkstar's first public appearance after the release of Top Gun: Maverick. -15/10/2022
Lockheed SR71 the Duxford aircraft with a bit of Photoshopery to put her back where she looks the best _26K4790a
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Part of the Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth exhibition . this art exhibit was first exhibited in Nevada in 2018 and uses a real Fuselage of a 1940 Lockheed Lodestar . The identity of the aircraft at the moment is unknown
For more info re its history follow this link
Two Lockheed Martin F-35B "Lightning II" fighter jets have successfully landed on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first time, laying the foundations for the next 50 years of fixed wing aviation in support of the UK’s Carrier Strike Capability.
Royal Navy Commander, Nathan Gray, 41, made history by being the first to land on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, carefully maneuvering his stealth jet onto the thermal coated deck. He was followed by Squadron Leader Andy Edgell, RAF, both of whom are test pilots, operating with the Integrated Test Force (ITF) based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.
Shortly afterwards, once a deck inspection has been conducted and the all-clear given, Cmdr Gray became the first pilot to take off using the ship’s ski-ramp.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather, stealth, fifth-generation, multirole combat aircraft, designed for ground-attack and air-superiority missions. It is built by Lockheed Martin and many subcontractors, including Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, and BAE Systems.
The F-35 has three main models: the conventional takeoff and landing F-35A (CTOL), the short take-off and vertical-landing F-35B (STOVL), and the catapult-assisted take-off but arrested recovery, carrier-based F-35C (CATOBAR). The F-35 descends from the Lockheed Martin X-35, the design that was awarded the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program over the competing Boeing X-32. The official Lightning II name has proven deeply unpopular and USAF pilots have nicknamed it Panther, instead.
The United States principally funds F-35 development, with additional funding from other NATO members and close U.S. allies, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, Canada, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and formerly Turkey. These funders generally receive subcontracts to manufacture components for the aircraft; for example, Turkey was the sole supplier of several F-35 parts until its removal from the program in July 2019. Several other countries have ordered, or are considering ordering, the aircraft.
As the largest and most expensive military program ever, the F-35 became the subject of much scrutiny and criticism in the U.S. and in other countries. In 2013 and 2014, critics argued that the plane was "plagued with design flaws", with many blaming the procurement process in which Lockheed was allowed "to design, test, and produce the F-35 all at the same time," instead of identifying and fixing "defects before firing up its production line". By 2014, the program was "$163 billion over budget [and] seven years behind schedule". Critics also contend that the program's high sunk costs and political momentum make it "too big to kill".
The F-35 first flew on 15 December 2006. In July 2015, the United States Marines declared its first squadron of F-35B fighters ready for deployment. However, the DOD-based durability testing indicated the service life of early-production F-35B aircraft is well under the expected 8,000 flight hours, and may be as low as 2,100 flight hours. Lot 9 and later aircraft include design changes but service life testing has yet to occur. The U.S. Air Force declared its first squadron of F-35As ready for deployment in August 2016. The U.S. Navy declared its first F-35Cs ready in February 2019. In 2018, the F-35 made its combat debut with the Israeli Air Force.
The U.S. stated plan is to buy 2,663 F-35s, which will provide the bulk of the crewed tactical airpower of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps in coming decades. Deliveries of the F-35 for the U.S. military are scheduled until 2037 with a projected service life up to 2070.
Development
F-35 development started in 1992 with the origins of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program and was to culminate in full production by 2018. The X-35 first flew on 24 October 2000 and the F-35A on 15 December 2006.
The F-35 was developed to replace most US fighter jets with the variants of a single design that would be common to all branches of the military. It was developed in co-operation with a number of foreign partners, and, unlike the F-22 Raptor, intended to be available for export. Three variants were designed: the F-35A (CTOL), the F-35B (STOVL), and the F-35C (CATOBAR). Despite being intended to share most of their parts to reduce costs and improve maintenance logistics, by 2017, the effective commonality was only 20%. The program received considerable criticism for cost overruns during development and for the total projected cost of the program over the lifetime of the jets.
By 2017, the program was expected to cost $406.5 billion over its lifetime (i.e. until 2070) for acquisition of the jets, and an additional $1.1 trillion for operations and maintenance. A number of design deficiencies were alleged, such as: carrying a small internal payload; performance inferior to the aircraft being replaced, particularly the F-16; lack of safety in relying on a single engine; and flaws such as the vulnerability of the fuel tank to fire and the propensity for transonic roll-off (wing drop). The possible obsolescence of stealth technology was also criticized.
Design
Overview
Although several experimental designs have been developed since the 1960s, such as the unsuccessful Rockwell XFV-12, the F-35B is to be the first operational supersonic STOVL stealth fighter. The single-engine F-35 resembles the larger twin-engined Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, drawing design elements from it. The exhaust duct design was inspired by the General Dynamics Model 200, proposed for a 1972 supersonic VTOL fighter requirement for the Sea Control Ship.
Lockheed Martin has suggested that the F-35 could replace the USAF's F-15C/D fighters in the air-superiority role and the F-15E Strike Eagle in the ground-attack role. It has also stated the F-35 is intended to have close- and long-range air-to-air capability second only to that of the F-22 Raptor, and that the F-35 has an advantage over the F-22 in basing flexibility and possesses "advanced sensors and information fusion".
Testifying before the House Appropriations Committee on 25 March 2009, acquisition deputy to the assistant secretary of the Air Force, Lt. Gen. Mark D. "Shack" Shackelford, stated that the F-35 is designed to be America's "premier surface-to-air missile killer, and is uniquely equipped for this mission with cutting-edge processing power, synthetic aperture radar integration techniques, and advanced target recognition".
Improvements
Ostensible improvements over past-generation fighter aircraft include:
Durable, low-maintenance stealth technology, using structural fiber mat instead of the high-maintenance coatings of legacy stealth platforms
Integrated avionics and sensor fusion that combine information from off- and on-board sensors to increase the pilot's situational awareness and improve target identification and weapon delivery, and to relay information quickly to other command and control (C2) nodes
High-speed data networking including IEEE 1394b and Fibre Channel (Fibre Channel is also used on Boeing's Super Hornet.
The Autonomic Logistics Global Sustainment, Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), and Computerized maintenance management system to help ensure the aircraft can remain operational with minimal maintenance manpower The Pentagon has moved to open up the competitive bidding by other companies. This was after Lockheed Martin stated that instead of costing 20% less than the F-16 per flight hour, the F-35 would actually cost 12% more. Though the ALGS is intended to reduce maintenance costs, the company disagrees with including the cost of this system in the aircraft ownership calculations. The USMC has implemented a workaround for a cyber vulnerability in the system. The ALIS system currently requires a shipping-container load of servers to run, but Lockheed is working on a more portable version to support the Marines' expeditionary operations.
Electro-hydrostatic actuators run by a power-by-wire flight-control system
A modern and updated flight simulator, which may be used for a greater fraction of pilot training to reduce the costly flight hours of the actual aircraft
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries to provide power to run the control surfaces in an emergency
Structural composites in the F-35 are 35% of the airframe weight (up from 25% in the F-22). The majority of these are bismaleimide and composite epoxy materials. The F-35 will be the first mass-produced aircraft to include structural nanocomposites, namely carbon nanotube-reinforced epoxy. Experience of the F-22's problems with corrosion led to the F-35 using a gap filler that causes less galvanic corrosion to the airframe's skin, designed with fewer gaps requiring filler and implementing better drainage. The relatively short 35-foot wingspan of the A and B variants is set by the F-35B's requirement to fit inside the Navy's current amphibious assault ship parking area and elevators; the F-35C's longer wing is considered to be more fuel efficient.
Costs
A U.S. Navy study found that the F-35 will cost 30 to 40% more to maintain than current jet fighters, not accounting for inflation over the F-35's operational lifetime. A Pentagon study concluded a $1 trillion maintenance cost for the entire fleet over its lifespan, not accounting for inflation. The F-35 program office found that as of January 2014, costs for the F-35 fleet over a 53-year lifecycle was $857 billion. Costs for the fighter have been dropping and accounted for the 22 percent life cycle drop since 2010. Lockheed stated that by 2019, pricing for the fifth-generation aircraft will be less than fourth-generation fighters. An F-35A in 2019 is expected to cost $85 million per unit complete with engines and full mission systems, inflation adjusted from $75 million in December 2013.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft was built by Lockheed Missiles Space Corporation (now Lockheed Martin) in its Sunnyvale, California facility. Since the 1990 launch, Lockheed Martin personnel located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, have helped NASA manage the day-to-day spacecraft operations of the telescope, and provided preparation and training for the telescope’s many servicing missions.
From my archive of photos from my last visit to the National Museum of the United States Air Force several years ago.
The C-60 is a twin-engine transport based on the Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar. During World War II, the Army Air Forces used the aircraft for training and for transporting personnel and freight. First flown in 1940, the Model 18 was originally designed as a successor to the Lockheed Model 14 and the earlier Model 10 Electra. The Army began ordering military versions of the Model 18 in May 1941. Depending upon engines and interior configuration, these transports were given C-56, C-57, C-59 or C-60 basic type designations. Lockheed built more C-60As for the AAF (325) than any other version of the military Lodestar.
After the war, many military Lodestars were declared surplus and sold to private operators for use as cargo or executive transports.
Title: Lockheed, SR-71A, Blackbird
Catalog #: 01_00091014
Corporation Name: Lockheed
Designation: SR-71A
Official Nickname: Blackbird
Additional Information: USA
Tags: Lockheed, SR-71A, Blackbird
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Lockheed-Martin Sabreliners launches on a local flight. - N11LX - NA265-60 Sabreliner - Lockheed Martin
Built in 1944 and first operated by USAAF in 1945 C-69 42-94549 now N90831 in TWA livery is seen at Pima Air & Space Museum 2008 it is named Star of Switzerland which it first carried in 1948.
The Lockheed Martin Orion structural test article team performed a critical jettison test on June 1, 2020. During the test, the three large service module fairings that cover the solar arrays on the structural test article, were jettisoned into large nets. This test, performed at Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Canyon facility near Denver, validated the structural shock and stresses seen during the launch milestone.
(February 13, 1931) The Lockheed Y1C-12 was a U. S. Army procured example of the Lockheed Vega. The military used the craft as a high-speed transport. The most famous Vega built was Oklahoman Wiley Post's "Winnie Mae." The Y1C-12, like other Vegas, had a wooden monocoque fuselage and a shoulder mounted wing.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: L-1931-05326
Date: February 13, 1931
My interest between civil and military aviation has varied over the years. In 1981, the civil scene was taking second place but I did have a photo session down at Gatwick one sunny spring day that year.
Amongst the regular items that passed in front of my lens was this Panam TriStar N504PA. This airframe survived to become part of the Delta fleet as N754DL and was in open storage at Victorville, CA, as recent as 2014.
London Gatwick, West Sussex
18th April 1981
Pentax MX, Kodachrome
19810418 17112 N504PA LGW cleanadj std
One of two Lockheed L-329 Jetstar 6/VC-140B former USAF jets (either 62-4197 or 62-4200) used as a canvas by street artists.
This one keeps some of its former blue and white colours worn during military service.
The RNZAF received 94 Hudsons in 1941-42 as part of measures to counter the threat
of German raiders around the New Zealand coastline. Subsequently they formed a
major part of the RNZAF's operational capabilities to counter the Japanese threat.
They were operated by No. 1,2,3,4 and 9 Squadrons until replaced in 1943-44 by the
more powerful Lockheed Venturas. The Hudson performed the roles of maritime search
and strike operations.
NZ2013 was manufactured in 1941 by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation at Burbank,
California. It was part of a diverted RAF order and was shipped directly to Auckland
from Los Angeles. It was brought on charge 18 September 1941 and was issued to
No. 1 Squadron at Whenuapai following assembly at Hobsonville.
The aircraft later served with No. 4 Squadron, Fiji. It also served briefly in New
Caledonia in August/September 1942. The aircraft suffered a major accident in Fiji in
early 1942 and was out of commission for several months. NZ2013 returned to New
Zealand in July 1944 and served with the School of Navigation and Reconnaissance at
New Plymouth. After the War, the School moved to Wigram where the aircraft continued
to serve until July 1948. It was then sold to Mr Clarke of Oamaru on 2 May 1949. It
was used as a shed and chicken coop on Mr Clarke's farm until being purchased by the
Museum Trust Board and No. 26 Squadron, Air Training Corps in 1985.
Restoration of this aircraft was completed by the Museum in July 1996 and it is finished
in the colour scheme that it would have been in when serving with No. 4 Squadron in Fiji
in 1943-44. This aircraft is on display in the Aircraft Hall.