Look To Lockheed For Leadership

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Promotional film about Lockheed aircraft using test pilots and speed records to show how Lockheed is at the forefront of aviation technology. Wright Brothers, Amelia Earhart, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes are shown.

Also airplane construction.

Stock shots:
Snowy mountain peaks encircled with clouds; Large sailing ship, full-rigged; "pioneer" wagons against a backdrop of clouds; Kitty Hawk, Wright Brothers first flight;
1928, Lockheed Vega "Yankee Doodle" landing breaking speed record -- NY to LA in 18 hours and 58 minutes pilots Col. Arthur Gobel (sp?) and Harry Tucker
1929 Capt. Frank Hawks climbs in cockpit on his way to setting a new transcontinental record. Take off on West Coast;
1931 Lockheed Col. Charles Lindbergh and Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (!) head from Washington, D.C., over the Bering Sea and land on pontoons in Tokyo to cheering throngs;
1931 Ruth Nichols lands her Lockheed Vega after establishing women's altitude record of 28,743 ft. CU of Nichols in ski parka in cockpit.
1933: "Winnie Mae", Wiley Post first man to fly around the world alone.
1933, Col. Charles Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh embark on 29,000 mile survey flight from New York to Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, the Azores, Africa, Brazil and back to NY.
1934: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Capt. P.G. Taylor land in Oakland after flying from Australia. First West to East trans-Pacific flight. "Lady Southern Cross." Large crowds gather to cheer.
1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland, the first woman to make a solo flight over the Pacific; throngs of people run to plane; she is picture with a large bouquet of flowers.
1938 Howard Hughes: sets new record traveling around the world;
Beautiful aerial shot of crowds milling around Howard Hughes' plane
"Electra" Lockheed's all-metal bi-motor transport. Six-passenger plane; Loadstar, luxury plane, fastest Shows airline routes on map by company including Latin American; Africa: Europe: Asia; Antipodes; Australia; New Zealand; Burbank plant in 1926; same plant currently, 1940, men of Lockheed going to work; Drafting room of engineering department; giant room ; passengers; in Loadstar; businessman giving dictation to secretary; Excalibur cabin; detailed information on market research being done by Lockheed; women collating questionaires; "if you were to build your own ship where you locate sent to airline pilots, executives; findings recording in another pamphlet; then submitted to the engineers feedback sent back to suit the men who know airplanes best; scale model; wind tunnel model; 90 mile an hour wind blowing a palm tree by the beach. wind tunnel in operation; massive hydropress; construction of parts; compressed air stamp; cracking an egg out of which comes a small chick; anodizing bath; spectrograph; animation of spectrograph; stress airplanes aircraft aviation

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[tboltjohn]

Credited for photography is Floyd Crosby, who was musician David Crosby's father.

[Greenhornet270]

FANTASTIC Post!!! Thanx for sharing it!

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Holy cow, this is awesome on so many levels.

[SFConifer]

Thanks, this is the best aviation history video on the site.

[LURQUIZA]

You should connect this with the Ruth Richter Holden (daughter of Paul Richter, one of the founders of TWA) TWA video of an Lockheed Electra restored for TWA! Great memorabilia, Shame Lockheed abandon commercial aviation, in my years of service with TWA the L1011-500 remains my favorite!

[jasleil]

nvr know delta and nwa starts way back then.