* Lockheed L-749 Constellation, further improved Lockheed Constellation

That year they also upgraded to the ' Lockheed C-121 Super Constellation for logistics.

# Lockheed C-121 Super Constellation — 1969 – 1973

* 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.

** 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.

* June 30 – A TWA Lockheed Constellation and United Airlines Douglas DC-7 collide in mid-air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft in the deadliest civil aviation disaster to date ; the accident leads to sweeping changes in the regulation of cross-country flight and air traffic control over the United States.

All 58 passengers and crewmen aboard the Lockheed Constellation airplane are killed.

On the morning of June 30, 1956, a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation and a United Airlines Douglas DC-7 departed Los Angeles International Airport within three minutes of one another on eastbound transcontinental flights.

An Lockheed L-049 Constellation | L-049 Constellation sporting the livery of Trans World Airlines at the Pima Air & Space Museum.

During World War II, Lockheed, in cooperation with Trans-World Airlines ( TWA ), had developed the L-049 Constellation, a radical new airliner capable of flying 43 passengers between New York and London at a speed of in 13 hours.

Lockheed produced a larger transport, the double-decked R6V Constitution, which was intended to make the Constellation obsolete.

* Lockheed Constellation, famous airliner

* Lockheed L-049 Constellation, first model of the Lockheed Constellation

* Lockheed L-649 Constellation, improved Lockheed Constellation

* Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, largest produced model of the Lockheed Constellation

: Auxiliary Field 9 is named Hurlburt Field for Lt. Donald Wilson Hurlburt, killed 1 October 1943 when his Lockheed AT-18-LO Hudson gunnery trainer, 42-55591, c / n 414-7313, crashed during take-off at Eglin.

On August 4, 1954, an Air France Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation flying from Orly Airport to Idlewild Airport crashed near Preston.

On March 17, 1960, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710, a Lockheed Electra turboprop airliner flying from Chicago to Miami lost a wing due to aerodynamic flutter and crashed in southern Indiana near Tell City.

A rematch was arranged, but while Cerdan was flying back to the United States to fight the rematch, his Air France Lockheed Constellation crashed in the Azores, killing everyone on board.

* On 24 December 1947, a Lockheed Lodestar ( OO-CAR ) experienced an engine failure shortly after take-off from an airfield near Mitwaba, then French Congo, and subsequently crashed, killing the five occupants on board.

* TWA Flight 843, when a TWA Lockheed L-1011 aircraft crashed after an aborted takeoff in 1992.

Most notable was a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter which flew low over Brooklands apparently in trouble and crashed at Cobham on 16 March 1944 ; the pilot survived but little else is known of this incident.

* On December 24, 1964, Flying Tiger Line Flight 282, a Lockheed Constellation cargo aircraft departing for New York City, crashed in the hills west of the airport, killing all three crewmembers on board.

On the 22 April 1940 a British Overseas Airways Corporation Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra ( Registration: G-AFKD named Loch Invar ) flying from Perth Airport ( Scotland ) to Heston Aerodrome in London crashed at Loch Lomond, killing all five passengers and crew.

On February 5, 1991, a Lockheed C-130H Hercules 748 crashed into the mountain, killing 63 people.

On 26 September 1992, a NAF Lockheed C-130H Hercules serial number 911 crashed three minutes after take-off from Lagos, Nigeria, when three engines failed, possibly due to high take-off weight.

Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar 1 jet that crashed into the Florida Everglades on the night of December 29, 1972, causing 101 fatalities ( 99 initial crash fatalities, two died shortly afterward ).

* On August 29, 1990, a Lockheed C-5A crashed shortly after take-off from Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

* January 11, 1949: a SAVAG Lockheed Model 18-10-01 Lodestar registration PP-SAC flying from Pelotas to Porto Alegre crashed just after take-off from Pelotas killing all 8 occupants.

* June 30, 1950: a SAVAG Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar registration PP-SAA, flying between Porto Alegre and São Borja, while flying in bad weather collided against a hill, caught fire and crashed near the location of São Francisco de Assis.

* July 28, 1950: a Panair do Brasil Lockheed L-049 Constellation registration PP-PCG flying from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to Porto Alegre struck power lines and crashed on a hill after running out of fuel while holding in bad weather near São Leopoldo.

He died on either 1 October 1943, or 2 October 1943 when his Lockheed AT-18 Hudson gunnery trainer, 42-55591, crashed during take-off at Eglin.

On 11 June 1940 a Coastal Command Lockheed Hudson crashed at Quarry Farm killing the four crew after the bomb load exploded on crashing.

On 18 December 1941 a Lockheed Hudson stalled soon after take off and crashed into Quarry Farm killing the five crew and four civilians.

On 4 September 1942 a Lockheed Hudson crashed at Myton House Farm killing the four crew.

On 13 August 1940, in what became known as the Canberra air disaster, a RAAF Lockheed Hudson flying from Melbourne crashed into a small hill to the east of the airport.

On March 27, 1965, Teal's Lockheed Electra L-188 ZK-TEC Akaroa, crashed during a training flight at Whenuapai.

On August 9, 1954, a Lockheed L-749A-79 Constellation operated by Avianca crashed three minutes after take off flew left into the hills instead of right towards the sea killing all 30 on board.

On 23 October 1948, a NAC Lockheed Electra, ZK-AGK Kaka, crashed on Mt Ruapehu in the centre of New Zealand's North Island while flying in clouds.

Large-scale retrieval systems, such as the Lockheed Dialog system, came into use early in the 1970s.

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.

On May 25, 2011 D-Wave announced that Lockheed Martin Corporation entered into an agreement to purchase a D-Wave One system.

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.

** American Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra heading from Chicago to New York City, crashes into the East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.

Cessna was re-sold to Textron in January 1992, the San Diego missile production to General Motors-Hughes Aerospace in May 1992, the Fort Worth aircraft production to Lockheed in March 1993 ( a nearby electronics production facility was separately sold to Israeli-based Elbit Systems, marking their entry into the United States market ), and its Space Systems Division to Martin Marietta in 1994.

* Where civilian aircraft types have been taken into service, their existing names or alphanumeric designations have often been retained, e. g. the Vickers VC10 or Lockheed TriStar.

He said that the Japanese cut the valuable Lockheed aircraft into scrap and threw the pieces into the ocean.

* On 27 July 1955, a Lockheed Constellation operating El Al Flight 402, was shot down by two Bulgarian Air Force fighter jets over Blagoevgrad, near Sofia, Bulgaria, after it strayed into Bulgarian airspace in rough weather.

Western later was awarded a route between Minneapolis and Salt Lake City via Casper, Wyoming, allowing the airline to grow into a large regional airline, introducing service on the Douglas DC-6B, and Lockheed Electra.

* Glenn L. Martin Company, aircraft manufacturer, later Martin Marietta and finally merged into Lockheed Martin

By the end of 1945, the US had introduced their next jet fighter, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star into service and the UK its second fighter design, the de Havilland Vampire

With the introduction to service of the Lockheed Electra, expansion into Central America was made possible and service to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica began.

With the appearance of the Mig-15, the F-86 was rushed into combat and straight-wing jets like the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star and Republic F-84 Thunderjet were soon relegated to ground attack.

The reason for the relocation was that the Peter O. Knight Airport was too small to handle the new Douglas DC-4, DC-6 and Lockheed Constellation prop-liners that were being placed into service.

* Lockheed F-80C Shooting StarThe Shooting Star was operated extensively in Korea with the F-80C being instrumental in quickly gaining and maintaining air superiority over the Korean battlefield, rapidly clearing the skies of any North Korean aircraft that dared to venture into the air.

* Lockheed F-94B StarfireBecause it carried a highly secret airborne radar system, the F-94s were at first not permitted to fly deep into enemy territory.

* RF-80 Shooting Star66 production P-80A fighters were converted by Lockheed into reconnaissance aircraft and given the designation RF-80A-15-LO.

Additionally, the FAA ordered further changes to all aircraft with outward-opening doors, including the DC-10, Lockheed L-1011, and Boeing 747, requiring that vents be cut into the cabin floor to allow pressures to equalize in the event of a blown-out door.

Having been selected as the sole engine supplier for the Lockheed L-1011 ( TriStar ), Rolls-Royce committed heavily to the RB211 engine, but its development was hampered by considerable technical problems and on 4 February 1971 Rolls-Royce went into administrative receivership.

* January 13 – Northwest Airlines Flight 1, a Lockheed 14H Super Electra, crashes into a ravine shortly after takeoff from Miles City Municipal Airport in Miles City, Montana, killing all four people on board.