Talk:Lockheed Corporation

There is little or no information about what was termed in the 1960's the "Lockheed scandal".

Where bribes were handed out for lockheed to attain contracts to supply western europe, most notably west germany, with jet fighters.

This is briefly mentioned on this page, but the redirect is to a vanilla "about lockheed" page, which has no reference to the scandal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hartmann

And the same paragraph is repeated in the main text, but a little more information or detail might be in order from US sources, where they may now have access to information about the investigations and economic impact of the scandals.

Comments please?

- Xelous - 21st June 2007

Should make a good article, assuming we can find some verifiable sources. I found this source on the Netherlands Prince Bernhar's role in the scandal, but nothing else at the moment (haven't searched Google yet tho). - BillCJ 16:04, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Lockheed Bribery Scandal is also a redirect here, and possible alternate title. - BillCJ 16:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

F-104#International_service and Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld#Scandals has already some written information about the scandal - perhaps that can be gathered into a starting article. --MoRsE 22:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I've been reading a couple of Corky Meyer's books about his experiences at Grumman as a test pilot, and he headed the Grumman team that was selling the F11F-1F Super Tiger to the countries that Lockheed bribed to by the F-104. He has some unique observances, but a lot of it is his personal opinions, and not objectively useful beyond being used as colorful quotes. Meyer did state that he wasn't allowed by Grumman Corp to use bribes in any way. But he has definitely piqued my interests in the topic. As for a title, how about Lockheed 1960s bribery scandal? - BillCJ 23:25, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Title works for me. A question: I remember that there was a scandal surrounding some bribery and the C-5 program...same one or is there more than one Lockheed bribery scandal? AKRadecki^Speaketh 23:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure on the C-5 part. Most of the F-104 stuff happened in the late 50s/early 60s, right before the C-5 development began. That's probably something the research stage would reveal. - BillCJ 23:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I have vague rememberances of it causing problems for some members of congress...but you're right, research! AKRadecki^Speaketh 23:59, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd be interested in participating in this. --John 01:54, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. What would you be commfortable doing? I haven't started any research yet, and good online sources may be hard to find because of the time period. Wikipedia doesn't have much in depth in the articles above, so this will pretty much have to be done from scratch. I'm not that good at writing text from scratch, esp from printed sources. I don't mind doing some online searching, and dumping text in a sanbox to be rewritten later, and I'm pretty good at formatting and editing. If writing's not your strong suit either, then we could split up some sources, work on those, check each other's work, and then edit them together. I can set up a sandbox on my userspace, and then we can start finding sources, and discuss more on the sandbox's talk page. - BillCJ 02:20, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

I can write original text if it's distilled from sources. If we can find good sources I can write something, I have a book and a couple of websites already in mind. I like the sandbox idea. I suggest you do it and tell me here and/or in my talk where it is and I will look at it and try to develop it. It's a fascinating subject. --John 02:53, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

OK,it's at User:BillCJ/Sandbox/Lockheed 1960s bribery scandal. We can use a different title when we go ilive if we have a better one. - BillCJ 03:28, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Give me 24 hours or so. --John 03:52, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

For the record, see Lockheed bribery scandals for the final outcome of this discussion. - BilCat (talk) 04:14, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Under the section of 'Production during World War II' a sentence states, "The P-38 was the only American fighter aircraft in production throughout American involvement in the war, from Pearl Harbor to Victory over Japan Day."

Can someone verify this? I think it should be removed with any confirmation. RyanDanielst (talk) 21:14, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

I've added the source cited in the P-38 article. I don't have access to the source myself, so I can't personally verify that the source says this. You can add {{vs}} to the citation to request that someone verify that the source contains this information. If you have a credible reason for doubting the claim, you can {{dubious}} to the citation, but realize a more credible source will need to be provided to remove it. - BilCat (talk) 21:36, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

The Wikipedia North American P-51 Mustang has the first deliveries of NA-73 Mustang Is to the RAF in October 1941, and it claims that production continued until "after the war". Note that while the first Mustangs for the USAAF were built as attack aircraft, the Mustang Is for the RAF were built to be fighters.- Rv8 (talk) 14:43, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

This section doesn't say how it ends. I think some additional sources describing what the end of this process looked like would be notable. I potentially have some COI here otherwise I would do it myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Czarking0 (talk • contribs) 00:54, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Lockheed published a series of brochures called "Pathways to the Stars" that included organization charts for the company. They may be useful for expanding or structuring the article, so transcribed versions are below: