Two aircraft firms
1912-45 in US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth: Martin and Lockheed as separate stories. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Burbank/Palmdale lore, Marietta, Fort Worth as F-16 geography, ROK air bases as customer geography.
Capitol Hill as a map point.
Maps
Skunk Works Cold War
1946-90 in US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth: U-2, SR-71, missiles. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Consolidation
1991-95 in US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth: The merger season. A memory map, not a present overlay.
F-22 / F-35 politics
1996-2015 in US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth: Hearings as the public file. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Services and exports
After 2015 in US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth: ROK and other customers as news. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Portrayals
Allan Lockheed biographies
The usual English doorway into Lockheed Martin: The name on the California firm -- spelling later standardised without the hyphen in some tellings.
Glenn L. Martin biographies
The paired doorway: The 1912 ancestor whose bombers and later missile firm fill the other half of the merger.
School survey chapters
Where Lockheed Martin (1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912)) is a paragraph or a unit in US/UK/AU/CA -- often thinner than US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth local hours.
Local museums / sites in US plants and Pentagon offi.
Thicker than the English paragraph. Services and exports is the usual late pilgrimage caption.
Feature film / television
If Lockheed Martin has a visual canon, it probably outruns the monographs. Treat film as memory, not as a log.
Korean comparative essays
A Korean reader may pair Lockheed Martin with 1950-53, Inchon, Tsushima, or the ROK force-structure story even when the campaign was elsewhere.
Rituals
1912 / 2013-20 dates
The usual ritual poles of Lockheed Martin: Glenn L. Martin Company and Hewson public era.
Museum and cemetery wreaths
Official and family rites at sites in US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth. Marillyn Hewson is often the civilian or corrective name on the plaque.
Classroom minutes
Where Lockheed Martin is on the syllabus -- in Anglophone schools often beside 11 November or a Second World War unit, not always beside US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth's own calendar.
Sayings
Udvar-Hazy's Blackbird is the English pilgrimage.
No live line-rate or classified shop address.