It also convened the Council of Legends, 12 Akron men with decades of blimp experience, to consult with Lockheed engineers on the airship project.

Departing Boston on 6 September, Barry spend two months operating out of Newport while Lockheed engineers conducted post-installation tests on the new fire control system.

But Eric Horton, 37, a Lockheed engineer, said his company also wanted students to "know that Lockheed Martin is down here on spring break, having fun.

Working with Lockheed engineers and other aviation consultants, he helped solve this and other problems with the F-104.

The Cosmic Wind was designed and built by Lockheed's chief test pilot, Tony LeVier, and a group of Lockheed engineers.

TWA's requirements led to the L-049 Constellation, designed by Lockheed engineers including Kelly Johnson and Hall Hibbard.

Willis Hawkins, another Lockheed engineer, maintains that the Excalibur program was purely a cover for the Constellation.

Jim Herman, the Lockheed engineer who certified the plane's airworthiness, compared the effect to using an electric fan to move a pinwheel.

Thomson and John Riley, a Lockheed engineer from Santa Clara, California, and fellow fruit enthusiast, began working together to publish a newsletter beginning in 1960.

The Model 33 design was originally started as a private venture two-seat light aircraft by John Thorp, a Lockheed engineer.