Two aircraft firms
Martin and Lockheed as separate stories.
Keep 1912 and 1926 in the first paragraph so 1995 does not look like a birth.
Skunk Works memoirs are sources with a sales department.
Timeline
- Glenn L. Martin Company
The older ancestor.
- Lockheed incorporation (famous form)
The California ancestor.
- U-2 first flight
A reconnaissance political object.
- F-104 / C-130 era
A fighter scandal-to-be and a transport that stayed.
- SR-71 first flight
The poster type.
- Martin Marietta years
Missiles and space on the other letterhead.
- Merger
Lockheed Martin as a name.
- F-35 procurement politics
Concurrency and hearings.
- ROK F-35 decision era
Alliance-industrial chapter.
- Hewson public era
A named late CEO in the English business press.
Eras
Skunk Works Cold War
U-2, SR-71, missiles.
Consolidation
The merger season.
F-22 / F-35 politics
Hearings as the public file.
Services and exports
ROK and other customers as news.
Milestones
1995 merger
The letterhead this page is named for.
U-2, 1955
Reconnaissance as politics.
F-35 hearings
The late public file.
A merger is a political event in a drawing-down Pentagon.
ROK buys are chapters, not climaxes.