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Allan Lockheed
American aviation engineer and industrialist (1889–1969)
Allan Haines Lockheed (néAllan Haines Loughead; January 20, 1889 – May 26, 1969) was an American aviation engineer and businessman. He formed the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company along with his brother, Malcolm Loughead, which became Lockheed Corporation.[1]
Loughead legally changed his name in 1934 to Allan Lockheed, the phonetic spelling of his family name, to avoid spelling confusion. He went on to form two other aircraft manufacturing companies in the 1930s, both of which were unsuccessful. After World War II, he continued his career as a real estate salesman while occasionally serving as an aviation consultant. Allan Lockheed kept an informal relationship with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation until his death in 1969 in Tucson, Arizona.[2]
Early life
Allan Loughead was born in Niles, California, in 1889, the youngest son of Flora and John Loughead.[3] He had a half-brother Victor, a sister Hope, and a brother Malcolm Loughead.[3]
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The Lockheed story begins with the Loughead brothers, Allan, Malcolm and Victor, who became fascinated with aviation after witnessing several glider demonstrations. Victor (who was actually a half brother) was educated as an engineer and published two early technical works on aviation by 1910. Victor's interest in aviation inspired Allan to learn how to fly, and Malcolm gained fame for developing a reliable hydraulic automotive brake. Malcolm and Allan set up the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company in San Francisco, CA and built their Model G aircraft, an original design but commercially unsuccessful. During the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco they offered the crowds flights in their Model G, and made enough money to start the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company in 1916, located in Santa Barbara, CA. Their first project, the F-1, was the world's largest sea plane, able to carry 10 passengers. Jack Northrop, a 20-yearold draftsman, worked on this project. The F-1 flew in 1918, and the brothers started building flying boats for the Navy. After World War I, the
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Lockheed Martin is a leading name in aviation circles today. An American global aerospace, defence, security and advanced technologies company, it has produced some of the world’s finest combat jets such as the F-117 Nighthawk, the F-22 Raptor, the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-35 Lightning II. It has also built the Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules, a fourengine turboprop military tactical transport aircraft currently in service with the Indian Air Force. It is perhaps not so well-known that the company might have been named Loughead Martin if its founder Allan Loughead had not got fed up with his name getting mispronounced “Log-head”. He legally changed it to Lockheed.
Allan Haines Loughead was born on January 20, 1889, in Niles, California. In 1906, he became an automobile mechanic in San Francisco and soon took to driving racing cars. In 1910, he made history together with George Gates when the two men performed the first ever dual-pilot controlled flight in a 50-hp machine. Re
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