* 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega.

Other vehicles named after Vega include the ESA's Vega launch system and the Lockheed Vega aircraft.

All told, Lockheed and its subsidiary Vega produced 19, 278 aircraft during World War II, representing six percent of those produced in the war.

* Lockheed Vega

Lockheed Vega 5B flown by Amelia Earhart as seen on display at the National Air and Space Museum

She intended to fly to Paris in her single engine Lockheed Vega 5B to emulate Charles Lindbergh's solo flight.

Earhart again participated in long-distance air racing, placing fifth in the 1935 Bendix Trophy Race, the best result she could manage considering that her stock Lockheed Vega topping out at was outclassed by purpose-built air racers which reached more than.

Between 1930 – 1935, Earhart had set seven women's speed and distance aviation records in a variety of aircraft including the Kinner Airster, Lockheed Vega, and Pitcairn Autogiro.

Ms. Earhart visited Wheeler Field in 1935 in her Lockheed Vega and in 1937 in her Lockheed Model 10 Electra.

Early airplanes with closed cockpits include the 1924 Fokker tri-motor, the 1926 German Junkers W. 34 transport, the 1926 Ford Tri-Motor, the 1927 Lockheed Vega, the Spirit of St. Louis and the passenger aircraft manufactured by the Douglas and Boeing companies during the mid-1930s.

A typical early form of this ( see the Lockheed Vega ) was built using molded plywood, where the layers of plywood are formed over a " plug " or within a mold.

The Lockheed Vega is one example of the Clark Y used in practice.

* Lockheed Vega

James Mattern and Bennett Griffin flew a Lockheed Vega, powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, from FBF to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, and then non-stop to Berlin, Germany in 18: 41 hours.

James J. Mattern flew a Lockheed Vega, powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, from FBF across the Atlantic, and makes a forced landing in Siberia.

Wiley Post flew a Lockheed Vega ( registration N-105W ) named Winnie Mae, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine, around the world in 7 days, 18: 49: 30 hours.

Felix Waitkus ( Feliksas Vaitkus ) ( 1907-1956 ) flew a Lockheed Vega, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine, from FBF to Ballinrobe, Ireland, on a projected flight to Lithuania.

" Winnie Mae " a Lockheed Vega aircraft of Wiley Post, when it was on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Posts Lockheed Vega aircraft, the Winnie Mae, was on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center from 2003 to 2011.

Hall in 1930 when Hall bought a high-wing, single-engine Lockheed Vega, one of the most famous record-breaking aircraft of the early 1930s.

* " Lockheed 5C Vega.

The original Lockheed facility, during the development of the P-80 Shooting Star, was located adjacent to a malodorous plastics factory.

The aircraft factory in Marietta later became the property of the Lockheed Corporation, which has used it for producing C-130 Hercules, C-141 Starlifter, and C-5 Galaxy transport planes.

The Fort Worth, Texas factory and its associated engineering locations and laboratories – which had been previously used for the manufacture of hundreds of General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark fighter-bombers and F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters for the U. S. Air Force, along with dozens of smaller projects – were sold, along with all intellectual property and the legal rights to the products that were being designed and built within, to the Lockheed Corporation.

Two years later the Loughead brothers, who later changed their name to Lockheed, established a seaplane factory on State Street ( Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company ) and constructed a wooden ramp on West Beach to launch their planes.

In 1969, the Mountsorrel Rolls-Royce factory designed and produced the RB211 engine for the Lockheed Tristar, and during the 1970s the factory employed 1, 200 people, but it was shut in 1994 as production methods changed.

In the early 1990s the aircraft was disassembled and moved indoors to hangar space at the factory where it was built, donated by Lockheed Aircraft.

The first sub-minute, digital fax machine was developed by Dacom, which built on digital data compression technology originally developed at Lockheed for satellite communication.

The first digital fax machine was the Dacom Rapidfax first sold in late 1960s, which incorporated digital data compression technology developed by Lockheed for transmission of images from satellites.

Lockheed fired him, it was widely believed, because the book cast negative publicity on the CIA.

The acronym was coined by Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works ( creators of the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes, among many others ).

After completing his USAF pilot training in 1988, he was assigned to McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, flying a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter.

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 only PDP-3 was built by the CIA's Scientific Engineering Institute ( SEI ) in Waltham, MA to process radar cross section data for the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in 1960.

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.

* Angel in Overalls ( 1945, B & W, 15: 00 ) This film was developed to show US Lockheed P-38 production line workers in a wide variety of roles.

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.

The technology of the Lockheed Electra airliner was also used in military aircraft, such as the P-3 Orion and the C-130 Hercules, using the Allison T56.

The original prime contractor and developer of the missile was Lockheed Martin Space Systems.

In 2007, Lockheed Martin was awarded a total of $ 848 million in contracts to perform this and related work, which also includes upgrading the missiles ' reentry systems.

The UAE was the first country to acquire THAAD ( Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System ) A contract worth 1. 96 $ billion was agreed for Lockheed Martin Corp to supply two Thaad anti-missile batteries.

The capture, rather than sinking, of U-570 – the only ship to be captured by an aircraft – on 27 August 1941 by a Lockheed Hudson from RAF Coastal Command was important for determining the fighting capacity of U-boats, although her crew destroyed the Enigma and cipher information.

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.

The first Wankel rotary-engine aircraft was the experimental Lockheed Q-Star civilian version of the United States Army's reconnaissance QT-2, basically a powered Schweizer sailplane, in 1968 or 1969.

Giovanni Leone was forced to resign as President of the Italian Republic in 1978, after a scandal involving Lockheed aeroplanes.

The contractor for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters was Morton Thiokol ( now part of Alliant Techsystems ), for the external tank, Martin Marietta ( now Lockheed Martin ), and for the Space Shuttle main engines, Rocketdyne ( now Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, part of United Technologies ).

Lockheed Martin Armament Systems was later acquired by General Dynamics, who currently produce the M61 and its various offspring.

The Lockheed D-21 was a Mach 3 + reconnaissance drone that was powered with a ramjet which was launched from a parent aircraft such as the Lockheed A-12.