In my opinion, the most interesting and important company in aviation history has been Lockheed, now Lockheed Martin, they've done everything from single engined sport aircraft to transports to the Mach 3 capable A12 family of aircraft that include the SR71 and the YF12 prototype fighter.
Clarence Kelly Johnson of Lockheed was a lead designer on many projects including the Hudson bomber and the P38 lighting. He also chose the location of the Area 51 black project development site where the U2 was first test flown.
In the 1960's the company was involved in a bribery scandal, and their famous Starfighter became infamous in West Germany, for crashing.
There are many figures and companies in the history of aviation, Sir George Cayley, Otto Lillienthal, Orvile and Wilbur Wright, Eustace and Oswald Short, Thomas Sopwith, Harry Hawker, Fred Slingsby, Frederick Handley Page, Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, George Edwards, Roy Chadwick, Gustav Lachmann, Robert Kronfeld, Rudolf Kaiser, and many others, but I thought I'd start with Lockheed as they have done virtually everything.
Clarence Kelly Johnson of Lockheed was a lead designer on many projects including the Hudson bomber and the P38 lighting. He also chose the location of the Area 51 black project development site where the U2 was first test flown.
In the 1960's the company was involved in a bribery scandal, and their famous Starfighter became infamous in West Germany, for crashing.
There are many figures and companies in the history of aviation, Sir George Cayley, Otto Lillienthal, Orvile and Wilbur Wright, Eustace and Oswald Short, Thomas Sopwith, Harry Hawker, Fred Slingsby, Frederick Handley Page, Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, George Edwards, Roy Chadwick, Gustav Lachmann, Robert Kronfeld, Rudolf Kaiser, and many others, but I thought I'd start with Lockheed as they have done virtually everything.
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