lockheed

Lockheed and the F-104 starfighter, supposed to be the cheap alternative to beat the dreaded MIG 15/17 in combat. In reality the F-104 wasn't really good from the get go, it had the speed but, from the poor turning radius due to its stubby wings, it's landing speed being it's stalling speed...

So, lately I have been thinking about the potential for a timeline following a different path for the US aerospace where ULA isn't formed in 2005 and thought I'd see what folk thought about my ideas. Some background: in OTL, after Boeing was caught committing corporate espionage to win the...

The Blackburn Beverley, Lockheed Hercules, and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy were cargo/transport aircraft of roughly similar dimensions introduced in the mid-1950s, or in the Argosy's case slightly smaller and later in the decade, with the Hercules being the much more successful. Other than the...

On the morning of March 23, 1976, ultranationalist Japanese actor Mitsuyasu Maeno and two friends, dressed in the uniforms of kamikaze pilots, rented two planes claiming they were using them for a publicity stunt to help promote a movie that was in the works. Maeno's real purpose, however, was...

The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar Essentially a return to Civil Aviation for Lockheed since the Constellation IIRC, and made back it's Development Cost by ~1983. The question I have is: What would have happened had the Tristar - a plane that had to, and actually did, live up to its Promise of...

WI: NACA Modified P-38 fighter ------------------------------------------------------- Notice to Readers: This TL is still alive but only occasionally updated at this time (Summer 2021). Real life and the greatly expanded scope of detail required to continue advancing the TL at this point...

Whilst a cutting edge firm, by the early 1970s due to a number of problems - some self-inflicted, others no fault of their own - Lockheed was in serious financial trouble, haemorrhaging money they had to turn to the US government and request a number of loan guarantees to keep from going...