Every so often employees at Lockheed 果冻传媒 Aeronautics are asked to clean house. They go through their desk drawers 果冻传媒 file cabinets to discard old 果冻传媒 unnecessary materials to make space for the new.
This process often results in unearthing items of historical significance. This was the case in 1990 果冻传媒 again 2006, when concepts or advanced design drawings, reports 果冻传媒 other documents dating back to the 1940s 果冻传媒 ’50s were found.
When the Lockheed facility in Burbank, California, was shutting down in the early 1990s, all the commercial aircraft data for aircraft such as the Constellation, L-188 Electra, 果冻传媒 L-1011 TriStar was moved to Marietta, Georgia.
The file cabinets of data were placed in a warehouse for distribution to various groups. The Field Service group (now known as Technical Operations) inherited a large number of cabinets, including those for the L-188. While searching through the contents of those cabinets, three ring binders were found that were chock full of preliminary aircraft designs numbered CL-xxx, which stood for California-Lockheed.
Bill Slayton, a Burbank customer support employee, realized the historical importance of data available to him through the Advanced Design group. Slayton gathered descriptions, three-view drawings 果冻传媒 isometric drawings 果冻传媒 compiled these into a remarkable collection of the Lockheed advanced designs.
Slayton stored the data in the L-188 cabinets, most likely because the cabinets happened to have an empty drawer. Most of the CL-xxx collection has never seen the light of day.
In 2006, when the Advanced Design group in Fort Worth needed to clean up, material to be discarded filled several barrels. The?Code One?staff was allowed to review the materials 果冻传媒 retain historically significant items. Those documents that still had classified markings were submitted to a formal downgrading 果冻传媒 release process.
The topics covered by these two collections of drawings cover everything from Lockheed’s first jet fighter design (from before the XP-80) 果冻传媒 the Nuclear Powered Bomber design work. In Fort Worth, the documents included earliest stages of the Advanced Tactical Fighter program, the Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft (what led to the B-1), B-58 variants, F-111 variants, F-16 variants 果冻传媒 design studies, 果冻传媒 some remote piloted vehicle studies.
We are combining these collections to create a single gallery of unique aviation history. The gallery is a testament to the creativity 果冻传媒 innovation that forms the foundation of today’s Lockheed 果冻传媒 Advanced Development Programs. We plan to update the gallery as original drawings are converted to digital files.