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    The Lockheed Vega is an American five- to seven-seat high-wing monoplane airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation starting in 1927. It became famous...
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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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    built by the Vega Aircraft Company division of Lockheed (hence the "V" Navy manufacturer's letter that later replaced the "O" for Lockheed), was a version...
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  • brother, Malcolm Loughead, which became Lockheed Corporation. Loughead legally changed his name in 1934 to Allan Lockheed, the phonetic spelling of his family...
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    the sky: those fabulous Lockheeds, the pilots who flew them. S. Greene Press. pp. 199–200, 202. "Parks Airport Lockheed Vega 5C Special NX/NR/NC965Y."...
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    The Vega Aircraft Corporation was a subsidiary of the Lockheed Aircraft Company in Burbank, California responsible for much of its parent company's production...
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  • base model. Lockheed Aequare Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher Lockheed MQM-105 Aquila Lockheed D-21 Lockheed X-7 Vega Aircraft Corporation Lockheed Constellation...
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    aircraft produced by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The Orion was the last design using many identical elements from the Lockheed designs preceding it...
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    from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska. Post's Lockheed Vega aircraft, the Winnie Mae, was on display at the National Air and Space...
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  • Normalsegelapparat Lockheed F-104A Starfighter Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar Lockheed Model 8 Sirius Tingmissartoq Lockheed U-2C Lockheed Vega 5B Lockheed Vega 5C "Winnie...
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    The Lockheed Explorer was the least successful wooden airplane design produced by the Lockheed Aircraft Company. The Vega fuselage was combined with a...
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  • ST 87 Vega, a French homebuilt aircraft design Vega Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed Vega program, a series of space missions VEGA Space...
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    Chevrolet launched the Vega in 1971. Other vehicles named after Vega include the ESA's Vega launch system and the Lockheed Vega aircraft. The polar temperature...
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  • is a list of aircraft that were manufactured by the Lockheed Corporation and its successor Lockheed Martin Corporation, and are in preservation, most of...
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    short-field capabilities of the Lockheed C-130. In the place of a Soviet transport plane, a C-130 Hercules (or Lockheed L-100 Hercules civilian model in...
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    The Lockheed Air Express was the second aircraft design created by the Lockheed Aircraft Company after its founding in 1927; the type first flew in April...
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    Winnie Mae (category Lockheed Corporation)
    The Winnie Mae is a modified Lockheed 5C Vega flown by Wiley Post during the 1930 National Air Races, winning first place with a time of 9 hours, 9 minutes...
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  • replica aircraft, a Lockheed Vega and Fokker F.VIIb/3m Tri-motor Friendship (with limited ability to run up engines and taxi). The Lockheed 12A Electra Junior...
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    The Lockheed Altair was a single-engined sport aircraft produced by Lockheed Aircraft Limited in the 1930s. It was a development of the Lockheed Sirius...
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    Jack Northrop (category Lockheed people)
    project engineer. In 1927 he joined the Lockheed Corporation, where he was a chief engineer on the Lockheed Vega transport. He left in 1929 to found Avion...
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    Erickson Aircraft Collection Airworthy; registered with FAA Built at Lockheed/Vega in Burbank,CA as a B-17G-70-VE. Outfitted with AN/APS-15, later modified...
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    reducing the horizontal tail load required to trim an aircraft. The Lockheed Vega and Spirit of St. Louis are two of the better known aircraft using the...
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    B-17F-1-BO (serial number 41-24341) built. Conversion work was done by Lockheed's Vega company. The aircraft differed from the standard B-17 in that a second...
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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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  • made the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic with her Lockheed Vega-5B equipped with Wittnauer instruments. Wittnauer products were widely...
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  • from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, using 6-passenger Lockheed Vega single-engine aircraft on June 20, 1928. The first flight was flown...
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  • covering the 1,900 miles in 20 hours. In January 1932, he crashed a Lockheed Vega of Panagra at Santiago, and quit before he was fired. Reeve's move to...
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    designs; the B-17 Flying Fortress was built by Boeing (the designer), Lockheed Vega, and Douglas Aircraft. Automotive companies joined schemes to produce...
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    The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (pronounced "El-ten-eleven") is an American medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation...
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    characteristics with fixed landing gear, such as the Albatross, Fokker 110, and Lockheed Vega. The first all metal passenger service propliner was the Handley Page...
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