Recent events got me reflecting on stuff I’d forgotten… Closest I ever got to actually working in the aerospace industry was a couple of days working on a DARPA proposal with Lockheed Martin people circa 2005. Life would have gone a very different direction if we’d won 🤔
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All UM aero grads birg our most famous alumnus, Kelly Johnson, architect of the U2, SR-71 and the skunkworks concept. TIL he also created Area 51.
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Today Lockheed Martin is a stodgy, bureaucratic defense contractor, despite making ninja missiles, but there was a time when it was bleeding edge management
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The Empire mall in Burbank was the site of a Lockheed plant long ago, and the signage features classic plane models. This one features the Super Constellation — very distinctive non-Boeing/Douglas aesthetic. One of my favorites as a teenager.
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