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    The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s by the United States...
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  • The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer. Lockheed was founded in 1926 and merged in 1995 with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin...
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  • Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is...
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    operation. The next flight of the U-2 spyplane from Peshawar airport was planned for late April. On 28 April 1960, a U.S. Lockheed U-2C spy plane, Article 358...
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  • Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company is a major unit of Lockheed Martin with headquarters at Air Force Plant 4 in Fort Worth, Texas. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics...
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    for the Lockheed U-2. Kingfish competed with the Lockheed A-12 for the Project Oxcart mission, and lost to that design in 1959. Before the U-2 became operational...
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    Lockheed Corporation. The SR-71 has several nicknames, including "Blackbird" and "Habu". The SR-71 was developed as a black project from the Lockheed...
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    Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and the Lockheed U-2 that the United States military has been using for more...
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    January 2010. Merriam Press. World War 2 in Review No. 18: Lockheed Hudson. Lulu Press Inc, 2017. p. 14. "VH-BNJ Lockheed Hudson IVA". Aussieairliners.org....
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  • January 2022, Lockheed Martin employs approximately 115,000 employees worldwide, including about 60,000 engineers and scientists. Lockheed Martin is one...
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    Area 51 (section U-2 program)
    of the project.: 25  He notified Lockheed, who sent an inspection team out to Groom Lake. According to Lockheed's U-2 designer Kelly Johnson: : 26  We...
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    The Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel, nicknamed Wraith, is an American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Lockheed Martin and operated by the United...
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  • Project RAINBOW (category Lockheed aircraft)
    a research project aimed at reducing the radar cross-section of the Lockheed U-2 and lowering the chance that it would be detected and tracked by Soviet...
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    oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay...
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    Francis Gary Powers (category Lockheed people)
    Agency (CIA) Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. He later...
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    The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable...
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  • aircraft Lockheed Martin SR-72 Lockheed U-2 very high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft Manhattan Project Nuclear weapons program Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit...
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  • reverse-engineered copy of the Lockheed U-2C, developed in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. On 1 May 1960, Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 espionage mission from...
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    aircraft, together with intelligence reports of the development of the Lockheed U-2 with an even greater ceiling, development began on a specialist high-altitude...
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  • surface-to-air missile after attempting to intercept Gary Powers' reconnaissance Lockheed U-2 near Sverdlovsk. Safronov was born on 25 March 1930 in Gus-Khrustalny...
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    name AQUATONE. Lockheed was chosen to build the reconnaissance plane and in August 1955 the first Lockheed U-2 was test-flown. The U-2 was chosen as the...
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  • Siemens–Duewag U2, a light rail vehicle Lockheed U-2, a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft EasyJet (IATA code: U2), an airline Polikarpov U-2, a Soviet biplane Wills Wing...
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    developed for the US Navy by Lockheed to replace the Lockheed PV-1 Ventura and PV-2 Harpoon, and was replaced in turn by the Lockheed P-3 Orion. Designed as...
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  • USAF's Lockheed U-2S fleet was fitted with a modified version of the F118. F118-GE-100 Variant for the B-2 F118-GE-101 Variant for the U-2S Lockheed U-2S...
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    Kelly Johnson (engineer) (category Lockheed people)
    the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird. Besides the first production aircraft to exceed Mach 3, he also produced the first fighter capable of Mach 2, the...
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    limits. Some aircraft, such as the Lockheed U-2, routinely operate in the "coffin corner". In the case of the U-2, the aircraft was equipped with an autopilot...
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    with delays and cost overruns, whereas Lockheed had produced the U-2 on time and under budget. In addition, Lockheed had experience running a "black" project...
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    Dart, Lockheed U-2, and Republic F-105 Thunderchief. It was also utilized in the prototype and experimental Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, Lockheed A-12, Martin...
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    of the high-altitude versions of the J57 that would later power the Lockheed U-2 and other aircraft.[citation needed] Data from General characteristics...
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    LF-1, was used in the Pratt & Whitney J57 engine, which powered the Lockheed U-2 aircraft. With an additive to improve thermal oxidative stability, it...
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