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00:00:00 The Birth of an Aviation Titan
00:03:37 Crafting the Wooden Lockheed Vega
00:06:24 The Detroit Aircraft Bankruptcy and $40,000 Sale
00:11:24 Famous Pioneers: Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart
00:12:36 The All-Metal Electra and the Twin-Tail Design
00:17:29 Charles Lindbergh and the Sirius Seaplane
00:19:46 Howard Hughes and the Super Electra
00:22:03 Designing the Hudson Bomber for the Royal Air Force
00:25:09 The P-38 Lightning Assembly Line
00:29:07 The Vega Company and B-17 Production
00:32:08 Camouflaging the Burbank Factories
00:33:51 Kelly Johnson and the Secret P-80 Jet Project
00:37:31 The Elegant Lockheed Constellation
00:41:44 Wartime Expansion and Rosie the Riveter
00:45:31 Post-War Patrols: The P2V Neptune
00:48:21 The Massive Lockheed Constitution
00:50:30 Turboprops and the L-188 Electra
00:53:38 The U-2 High-Altitude Reconnaissance Aircraft
00:55:29 Forging the Titanium SR-71 Blackbird
00:58:09 The L-1011 TriStar and the F-117A Stealth Fighter
01:06:33 The Legacy of Clarence “Kelly” Johnson
01:28:32 Skunk Works Flight Testing the D-21 Drone


2 posted on 06/11/2026 4:56:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

And Kelly Johnson didn’t even have a Mechanical Engineering degree. Go figure!


11 posted on 06/11/2026 5:22:35 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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