Former NSA employee Margaret Newsham claims that she worked on the configuration and installation of software that makes up the ECHELON system while employed at Lockheed Martin, for whom she worked from 1974 to 1984 in Sunnyvale, California, US, and in Menwith Hill, England, UK.

* Kakuei Tanaka – A political biography of modern Japan: " Chapter 4 The Lockheed Scandal " ( The Kodama organization, a Yakuza gang, got mixed up in this scandal.

In July 1938, while the rest of Lockheed was busy tooling up to build Hudson reconnaissance bombers to fill a British contract, a small group of engineers was assigned to fabricate the first prototype of what would become the P-38 Lightning.

Surprisingly, Lockheed officials declared that the airport would reopen the next day, and it did, using electronic equipment borrowed from LAX that was set up in a nearby hangar.

This would mean Lossiemouth would continue with the Tornado until 2019 as the Lockheed Martin F35B works up to front line strength.

IBM Federal Systems was sold to Loral, and by way of acquisition, ended up with Lockheed Martin and is currently a part of BAE Systems.

* September 29 – The United States Navy Lockheed P2V Neptune Truculent Turtle, piloted by Commander Thomas D. Davies and aided by four JATO rockets, departs Perth, Australia, bound nonstop for Naval Air Station Anacostia in Washington, D. C. On take-off, it weighs 85, 575 lbs ( 38, 817 kg ), the heaviest twin-engine aircraft ever to take off up to that time.

* May 3 – Braniff Flight 352, a Lockheed L-188A Electra, breaks up in midair after flying into a severe thunderstorm and crashes near Dawson, Texas, killing all 85 people on board.

He eventually ended up working for Lockheed Martin making technical drawings.

He had almost given up on trying to find a job in comics and was satisfied with his position at Lockheed Martin.

Specifically, the mutant Wither ended up endangering Lockheed with his organic-destruction powers.

Ben Richards, the novella's protagonist, arrives here by car and is allowed to board a " Lockheed GA / Superbird " by bluffing that he has enough plastic explosive with him to blow up the entire complex.

McCone's suspicions of the inaccuracy of this assessment proved to be correct, as it was later found out the Soviet Union had followed up its conventional military build up with the installation of MRBMs ( Medium Range Ballistic Missiles ) and IRBMs ( Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles ), sparking off the crisis in October when they were later spotted by CIA's Lockheed U-2 surveillance flights.

He had spent six months at Headquarters, No. 2 Group RAF, before assuming command of B Flight in No. 487 Squadron RNZAF, working up on the Lockheed Ventura for daylight raids, a task for which the type was manifestly inadequate.

The project began as the Future International Military Airlifter ( FIMA ) group, set up in 1982 by ; Aérospatiale, British Aerospace, Lockheed and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm to develop a replacement for the C-130 Hercules and C-160 Transall.

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird-962The roof weighs 6000 tonnes and is able to support suspended aircraft weighing up to 10 tonnes.

In Gander, EPA set up administrative offices and a maintenance hangar and with the addition of larger Douglas DC-3s and Lockheed 10s, commenced regular passenger services between St. John's, Gander and Deer Lake in 1955-56.

On 20 July 1943 the Royal New Zealand Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force moved in with No. 487 Squadron RNZAF and No. 464 Squadron RAAF taking up residence with their Lockheed Ventura aircraft having moved from RAF Methwold before converting at Sculthorpe onto the De Havilland Mosquito.

The X-Men returned from the first Secret Wars and accidentally end up in Japan, fighting a dragon their companion Lockheed had brought along.

The Government Emergency Loan Guarantee Board, set up to oversee the program, investigated whether Lockheed violated its obligations by failing to tell the board about foreign payments.

Russian space agency spokesman said that despite that Lockheed is selling its stake to Space Transport, Khrunichev may eventually end up owning it.

In 1993, Ford headed up Ford and Associates, his own international consulting firm in Washington, D. C. to provide strategic and tactical advice to American companies such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon doing business with the militaries of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

The crew survived on shellfish and coconuts until spotted by a Lockheed Hudson patrol aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and were picked up the following day by the YMS-1 class minesweeper YMS-89 of the US Navy and taken to Tongatabu.

Now a family man with three children, Fiedler lives in a quiet residential area near the Lockheed plant at Sunnyvale.

To replace the Embraer P-95 Bandeirulha in the maritime patrol duties, 12 Lockheed P-3A Orions have been bought from US Navy surplus and eight ( with an option for a ninth ) of them are being upgraded by EADS CASA in Spain, the remainder are to be used as spare parts source.

* 1960 – 1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York's Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.

In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.

* 1976 – Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.

In the February 1964 issue of Popular Science, von Braun, then director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ), discussed the need for a lunar surface vehicle, and revealed that studies had been underway at MSFC in conjunction with Lockheed, Bendix, Boeing, General Motors, Brown Engineering, Grumman, and Bell Aerospace.

The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US $ 297 million.

The U. S. Army established the basic configuration of the tracked APC with the M75 and M59 before adopting the lighter M113 which could be carried by Lockheed C-130 Hercules and other transport aircraft.

And the " Program Evaluation and Review Technique " or PERT, was developed by Booz Allen Hamilton as part of the United States Navy's ( in conjunction with the Lockheed Corporation ) Polaris missile submarine program ; These mathematical techniques quickly spread into many private enterprises.

In the 1960s, Lockheed and MIT with the United States Department of Commerce conducted feasibility studies on a vactrain system powered by ambient atmospheric pressure and " gravitational pendulum assist " to connect cities on the East Coast of the US.

He was a member of Lockheed Martin's scenario development team charged with developing strategies for space exploration.

Columbia was also originally fitted with Lockheed Martin-built ejection seats identical to those found on the SR-71 Blackbird.

Developed by Lockheed as part of the ground-based interceptor portion of SDI, the Exoatmospheric Reentry-vehicle Interception System ( ERIS ) began in 1985, with at least two tests occurring in the early 1990s.

Although versions with a turbosupercharger provided excellent performance at high altitude in the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the turbosupercharger and its ductwork were too bulky to fit into typical single-engine fighters.

Both Convair and Lockheed competed for the contract but in 1950, the requirement was revised, with a call for a research aircraft capable of eventually evolving into a VTOL ship-based convoy escort fighter.

** Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption, in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.

** New York air disaster: a United Airlines DC-8 collides in mid-air with a TWA Lockheed Constellation over Staten Island in New York City.

* April 26 – The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar enters service with Eastern Airlines.

Notable company projects were at GM ( Dr. Patrick J. Hanratty ) with DAC-1 ( Design Augmented by Computer ) 1964 ; Lockheed projects ; Bell GRAPHIC 1 and at Renault ( Bézier ) – UNISURF 1971 car body design and tooling.

The development of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter revealed that the T171 Vulcan ( later redesignated M61 ) suffered problems with its linked ammunition, being prone to misfeed and presenting a foreign object damage ( FOD ) hazard with discarded links.

After Martin's merger with Lockheed, the rotary cannon became the responsibility of Lockheed Martin Armament Systems.

Other major satellite manufacturers include Space Systems / Loral, Orbital Sciences Corporation with the STAR Bus series, Indian Space Research Organization, Lockheed Martin ( owns the former RCA Astro Electronics / GE Astro Space business ), Northrop Grumman, Alcatel Space, now Thales Alenia Space, with the Spacebus series, and Astrium.