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	Lockheed YP-24 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1930, Detroit Aircraft Corporation undertook a private venture to develop a new fighter ("pursuit aircraft" in contemporary terminology) for US Army Air Corps based on the successful Lockheed Altair transport plane.
		Designed by Robert J. Woods, the aircraft was completed in 1931 with Detroit Aircraft fabricating the metal fuselage and Lockheed providing the wooden wings, essentially identical to the Altair.
		The aircraft was purchased by USAAC in September 1931 and redesignated YP-24, serial number 32-320.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lockheed_YP-24 (378 words)

	Lockheed Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lockheed Corporation (originally Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company) was an American aerospace company originally founded in 1912 which merged with Martin Marietta in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin.
		The P-38 was responsible for shooting down more Japanese aircraft than any other type during the war; it also participated in the famous mission to kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack.
		Events subsequently validated the low opinion of the aircraft (282 crashes and 115 German pilots killed on the F-104 in non-combat missions; allegations of bribes culminating in the Lockheed scandal).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lockheed_Corporation (1443 words)

	Lockheed A-9
		In July 1929, the Detroit Aircraft Corporation acquired 87 percent of the assets of Lockheed.
		The slim metal fuselage and the metal tail surfaces were built by Detroit Aircraft, but the wood-framed, plywood-covered wings as well as the undercarriage were essentially those of the Altair and were built by Lockheed in California.
		The aircraft was armed with two synchronized machine guns (one 0.30-in and one 0.50-in) mounted in the upper fuselage nose, plus one flexible 0.30-cal gun operated by the gunner firing upward and to the rear.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher4/a9.html (1045 words)

	U.S. Military Aircraft Designation Systems
		Aircraft with this status prefix were exempt from compliance with routine technical directives, as they were bailed to manufacturers or equipment companies for special test or development programs.
		Aircraft with this mission were modified to operate as carriers of parasite aircraft.
		Aircraft in special test program by authorized activities or on bailment contract where the configuration changes so drastically that returning to the original operational configuration is impractical or uneconomical.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/d/o/dob104/aviation/us/system.html (1131 words)

	Aircraft, Arkansas Air Museum at Drake Field, Fayetteville, Arkansas
		Known as the Texan by the USAAC and the Harvard in the RAF, the AT-6 was the main advanced trainer for single-engine aircraft.
		The use of light aircraft as the eyes of the army is as old as the airplane itself; however, at the outset of the Second World War it was still an unorthodox role.
		Many of the aircraft that you see at the museum are owned by private collectors.
	www.arkairmuseum.org /aircraft (766 words)

	Detroit Diesel Corporation
		Detroit Diesel hoped that the impressive amount of research and development the company had factored into its operating budget would ensure the company's edge in fuel efficiency and emission standards.
		In 1997, Penske attempted to expand Detroit Diesel's presence in the marine market with the acquisition of Outboard Marine Corp. Part of the plan was to use Outboard Marine to convert 50 of 800 auto centers Penske had acquired from Kmart Corporation in 1995 into marine and boat centers.
		Detroit Diesel faced a number of challenges operating as a global company as the 1990s came to a close but management insisted in April 1999 that the company wished to remain independent.
	referenceforbusiness.com /history/De-En/Detroit-Diesel-Corporation.html (3054 words)

	Aircraft Manufacturers
		Aircraft was a biplane type with either two engines (of 400-500 hp each).
		Describes how the aircraft was originally designed to use surplus Thomas Morse lower wings; however, because of high demand, inventories of these have been depleted and the construction of wings is now required.
		This is a sales pamphlet which describes the unique features of this aircraft which was touted at the time to be the safest aircraft in the air.
	www.icarusbooks.com /aircraft.htm (8686 words)

	Stinson Aircraft Corporation
		The would-be aircraft builders gave Stinson the mangled aircraft as payment and moved on to other ventures; for Stinson, it was the start of a lifelong vocation.
		The Stinson Reliant was a rugged aircraft built of fabric-covered welded steel-tubing structures with a single strut-braced double-tapered wing, and one of the last of the “taildraggers” (an airplane lacking a nose-wheel so it looked like its tail dragged when taxiing).
		Gulf Oil, Shell Oil, and Pepsi Cola were among the corporations to use Stinson Reliants to ferry their executives and clients around the country, while future military leaders Dwight Eisenhower and Jimmy Doolittle used the airplane as a versatile transport in remote areas such as the Philippines.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/GENERAL_AVIATION/stinson/GA2.htm (1604 words)

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		The ZMC-2 was the brainchild of Ralph Hazlett Upson, the chief engineer of Aircraft Development Corp., an extraordinary man whose vision spanned the range of aerospace history from lighter-than-air flight, through the development of the airplane and into that of space exploration.
		This interesting experiment in all-metal airship design and manufacturing had been promoted by the Aircraft Development Corporation of Detroit, Michigan and it was no coincidence that Ford, that is Edsel Ford, William May and William Stout, invested in the venture in an effort to make Detroit the manufacturing center of the dirigible industry.
		It was renamed Detroit Aircraft Corporation and was under the direction of Edward Evans, president.
	oldbeacon.com /beacon/airships/zmc-2.htm (736 words)

	Aircraft, Arkansas Air Museum at Drake Field, Fayetteville, Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		From that point, most of the Stinson aircraft, inclusing the SM-8A and S Juniors, utilized the R-680 radial engine.
		The aircraft on display is one of that series.
		Restored by Jim Younkin of Springdale, Ark., this aircraft was restored to the original factory specifications including the paint schemes.
	www.arkairmuseum.org /aircraft/plane-stinson.php (211 words)

	Ryan Aeronautical Company
		The ST was a two-seat, open-cockpit aircraft with fabric-covered braced low-wings and an all-metal fuselage.
		Ryan received a Navy contract in December 1943, to develop the XFR-1 compound fighter, with a piston engine mounted conventionally in the nose and a turbojet engine in the rear fuselage and exhausting through the tail.
		While out of aircraft production, Ryan gained important experimental aircraft contracts and was one of the early leaders in the emerging missile and unpiloted-aircraft fields, along with Douglas, Martin, and Bell companies.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Ryan/Aero34.htm (1536 words)

	Lockheed 5B Vega
		The aircraft she used was a bright red Lockheed Vega 5B, a sleek, new monoplane with a fully cantilevered wing and roomy cabin area that was quickly welcomed by record seeking pilots and the air transport industry.
		It was an aesthetically pleasing aircraft with a spruce veneer monocoque fuselage and a spruce cantilever wing.
		The aircraft was displayed there until it was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution on September 8, 1966.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/lockheed_5b.htm (672 words)

	Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in 1975 - aeroengineer.net
		Lockheed today is a company with long and broad experience in science and engineering, and with technical and management competence across a wide range of defense systems and industrial programs.
		In 1932 a group of investors purchased assets of the Lockheed firm and formed the present corporation.
		Lockheed's corporate organization, Lockheed-California Company, and Lockheed Air Terminal, Inc. that operates Hollywood-Burbank airport are all in Burbank.
	www.aeroengineer.net /history/lockheed/index.html (669 words)

	Systems of Designation
		During the period from 1909 to 1919, there was no organized system of designation for Army aircraft; all aircraft were operated by the designations of individual manufacturers.
		Aircraft were designated by a letter assigned to the current manufacturers.
		However, on March 10, 1923, it was decided that the emphasis should be placed on type of aircraft, not the manufacturer, so the manufacturer's letter was placed after the mission letter.
	www.driko.org /usdes2.html (1076 words)

	NAS Grosse Ile Aircraft
		It was a noteworthy innovation in airship building and, although it was destined for the U.S. Navy, its designation was at variance with the usual nomenclature practice.
		The Aircraft Development Corporation was formed for the express purpose of producing an airship with this novel feature, and the design and development of ZMC-2 began in 1922.
		Intended as the prototype of a new generation of metal airships with capacities up to 10,000,000 cubit feet, she was designed by Ralph H. Lipson (assisted by V.H. Pavoecka and others) for the Airship Development Corporation (afterwards the Metalclad Airship Corporation) of Detroit (Grosse Ile), MI.
	nasgi.org /zmc2.htm (682 words)

	Aviation Heritage Golden Age Short Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jerry Vultee, who was Chief Engineer at Lockheed Aircraft Company, was transferred to the Detroit Aircraft Corporation in 1929 when this concern gained controlling interest in Lockheed.
		Before the aircraft could be produced however, Cord was forced to sell the airline due to labor disputes in early 1933.
		The new aircraft emerged as the Vultee V-1A.
	www.aviation-heritage.com /eZine/Col04.htm (852 words)

	B.F. Mahoney was the 'mystery man' behind the Ryan company that built Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis.
		Mahoney Aircraft gave Lindbergh a custom-built Brougham to replace the Spirit he was about to donate to the Smithsonian Institution.
		Detroit Aircraft Corporation acquired Mahoney-Ryan in June 1929, renaming it Ryan Aircraft Corporation (unconnected with Claude Ryan).
		Detroit Aircraft ceased business during the depression-ridden 1930s, ending the enterprise originated as Ryan Airlines.
	www.charleslindbergh.com /plane/mahoney.asp (1953 words)

	Aviation Heritage Golden Age Short Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		These aircraft were the last in the remarkable series of "wooden wonders".
		In 1930 he was transferred to Detroit operations to oversee the metal fuselage "Vegas" then under construction.
		When the Detroit organization went into liquidation, the jigs, machinery and structural steel used in making the original metal fuselage "Vegas" were shipped to the Burbank facilities.
	www.aviation-heritage.com /eZine/Col08.htm (1189 words)

	Vultee Aviation, Gerard Vultee, E.L. Cord, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, Vultee V1A
		In January 1932, Cord formed the Airplane Development Corporation as a subsidiary of the Cord Corporation, with Vultee as chief engineer, to begin work on the Vultee V-1 transport.
		In 1939, Stinson Aircraft became a division of Vultee and on 14 November 1939, Vultee Aircraft, Incorporated was established to acquire the assets of the Aviation Manufacturing Company making Vultee a subsidiary of the parent company, the Aviation Company.
		The Vultee Aircraft Corporation was very largely the brainchild of Gerard Freebairn Vultee, formerly chief engineer at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation during the period that Lockheed was owned by the Detroit Aircraft holding company.
	www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.org /page10.html (730 words)

	Cthulhu Aircraft 1931
		The company was sold in 1929 to the Detroit Aircraft Corporation, which also owns the Stinson, Ryan and Eastman companies; Allan Lockheed left the company he founded when the sale went through.
		Loening Engineering Corporation: an established manufacturer, building amphibians for the Navy, purchased in 1930 by the Keystone Aircraft Corporation; the managing director before the sale was Leroy Grumman, who resigned and started his own company in Baldwin NY on January 2, 1930, along with a former Loening engineer, William Schwendler.
		United Aircraft and Transport: In mid-1929, United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was formed as a conglomerate of airlines and manufacturers (including Boeing).
	www.asmrb.org /michaelb/CthulhuAviation1931.html (6087 words)

	PBS - Chasing the Sun - Lockheed Brothers
		Malcolm Loughead quit the aviation industry, moved to Detroit and became successful with a hydraulic-brake system he developed for cars.
		Shortly after being sold, Lockheed Aircraft went bankrupt, unable to stay afloat during the Depression.
		Over the next few decades, the Lockheed Air Corporation would continue to develop innovative planes such as the economical Electra and the high-performance Constellation.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/lockheed.html (691 words)

	Detroit Aircraft Corporation - Zeppelin in Vignette - ( Formally Ryan Aircraft )
		Detroit Aircraft Corporation - Zeppelin in Vignette - 1934 (Formally Ryan Aircraft)
		The Detroit Aircraft Corporation was originally called the Aircraft Development Corporation when incorporated in 1922.
		Detroit Aircraft Corporation acquired Mahoney-Ryan in June 1929, renaming it Ryan Aircraft Corporation.
	www.scripophily.net /detaircor.html (476 words)

	Model flight just a glimpse of Lockheed dream
		It also took sound aeronautics, and that's precisely what the Santa Barbara Radio Control Modelers were going for when they sent a replica of the flying boat on a test flight Sunday.
		The brains behind the original design were Allan and Malcolm Loughead, brothers who opened a fledgling aircraft company in Santa Barbara in 1916.
		You know them by another The weekend event at Lake Cachuma was part of the festivities that will culminate a few months from now with a permanent display touting the brothers' work, and the Lockheed-Santa Barbara connection, at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum.
	www.sbrcm.org /SBNP.htm (573 words)

	Consolidated A-11 -- Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When the Detroit Aircraft Corporation, went into receivership in 1931, it was unable to fulfill its contract to manufacture YP-24 fighters and Y1A-9 attack planes for the USAAC.
		In addition, Detroit Aircraft's chief engineer Robert J. Woods was now out of a job.
		However, Woods was soon recruited by the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo, New York, and he continued to work on his YP-24 design after he went over to Consolidated.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/a11-01.html (557 words)

	U. S. Naval Aircraft Designations, 1922-1962
		The V and Z were used for administrative purposes and didn't appear in actual aircraft designations with the exception of some LTA where Z appears in the rigid airship designation.
		Naval aircraft are identified by an alpha numeric sequence that in the basic form details aircraft manufacturer, type and model.
		The manufacturer of the aircraft is indicated by a one alpha character code.
	www.bluejacket.com /usn-usmc-aircraft_designations.html (1183 words)

	Lockheed Vega model airplane
		This organization ran into financial difficulties and was closed in 1920 or 1921, and it was not until late 1926 or early 1927 that there was formed a new company, the Lockheed Aircraft Company.
		The initial Vega flew for the first time on July 4, 1927, and within the short space of six years the capability of this airplane was world renowned.
		When production ended, a total of 128 Vega airplanes had been built: 115 by Lockheed, nine by Detroit Aircraft Corporation (of which Lockheed was a division from 1929-1931), and four by others.
	www.wondersnevercease.com /wac/tmpages/esag016w.htm (399 words)

	Lockheed YP-24
		However, in 1929, the management of Lockheed voted to sell majority share ownership to the Detroit Aircraft Corporation, a Michigan-based holding company which already owned the Ryan and Eastman aircraft companies and which also had a substantial manufacturing capacity in Detroit.
		This problem was, of course, easily correctable, but for reasons unrelated to the YP-24 accident, some rather harsh economic realities were about to overtake the Detroit Aircraft Corporation.
		As the Depression deepened, the Detroit Aircraft holding company found that it was in over its head.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher1/p24.html (981 words)

	A History of Burbank (1967) - The City of Burbank
		In July, 1929, the Detroit Aircraft Corporation, aspiring to become the "General Motors of the Air," purchased 87 percent interest in Lockheed.
		In October, 1931, the Lockheed branch followed Detroit Aircraft into bankruptcy and the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles became receiver for the Lockheed unit.
		The Vega Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed, bought property at the corner of Hollywood Way and Empire Avenue next to the air terminal.
	www.wesclark.com /burbank/city_of_burbank.html (8712 words)

	ALTAIR Part 1 - The Lockheed File
		The aircraft featured reinforced spars and a special long-range fuel tank installed in place of the forward cockpit.
		A Lockheed Aircraft Corporation inter-departmental communication from Carl B. Squier (General Manager) advised that "this plane was damaged at Mines Field August 2nd on takeoff with Hutchinson as pilot.
		It is agreed by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. to bring the ship to their factory at once to start work immediately, and to finish in approximately 30 days or as near that date as possible.
	www.lockheed.adastron.com /altair/altair1.htm (1492 words)

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