SKUNK WORKS STORY | Aviation Revolutions, Lockheed, And Kelly Johnson | Complete Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2024
- The complete Skunk Works story and Kelly Johnson's biography. Full documentary.
Skunks Works is the Company that Gave Us The F-104 Starfighter, SR-71 Blackbird, The U-2 Dragonlady, the P-80 Shooting Star, the F-22 Raptor, and many other amazing Aircraft. Learn about Kelly Johnson, Ben Rich, and witnesses of the birth of the California company.
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The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer. Lockheed was founded in 1926 and merged in 1995 with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin. Its founder, Allan Lockheed, had earlier founded the similarly named but otherwise unrelated Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which was operational from 1912 to 1920.
Allan Loughead and his brother Malcolm Loughead had operated an earlier aircraft company, Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which was operational from 1912 to 1920. The company built and operated aircraft for paying passengers on sightseeing tours in California and had developed a prototype for the civil market, but folded in 1920 due to the flood of surplus aircraft deflating the market after World War I. Allan went into the real estate market while Malcolm had meanwhile formed a successful company marketing brake systems for automobiles.
On December 13, 1926, Allan Lockheed, John Northrop, Kenneth Kay, and Fred Keeler secured funding to form the Lockheed Aircraft Company in Hollywood (spelled phonetically to prevent mispronunciation). This new company utilized some of the same technology originally developed for the Model S-1 to design the Vega Model. In March 1928, the company relocated to Burbank, California, and by year's end reported sales exceeding one million dollars. From 1926 to 1928 the company produced over 80 aircraft and employed more than 300 workers who by April 1929 were building five aircraft per week. In July 1929, majority shareholder Fred Keeler sold 87% of the Lockheed Aircraft Company to Detroit Aircraft Corporation. In August 1929, Allan Loughead resigned.
The Great Depression ruined the aircraft market, and Detroit Aircraft went bankrupt. A group of investors headed by brothers Robert and Courtland Gross, and Walter Varney, bought the company out of receivership in 1932. The syndicate bought the company for a mere $40,000 ($660,000 in 2011). Ironically, Allan Loughead himself had planned to bid for his own company but had raised only $50,000 ($824,000), which he felt was too small a sum for a serious bid.
In 1934, Robert E. Gross was named chairman of the new company, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, which was headquartered at what is now the airport in Burbank, California. His brother Courtlandt S. Gross was a co-founder and executive, succeeding Robert as chairman following his death in 1961. The company was named the Lockheed Corporation in 1977.
The first successful construction that was built in any number (141 aircraft) was the Vega first built in 1927, best known for its several first- and record-setting flights by, among others, Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, and George Hubert Wilkins. In the 1930s, Lockheed spent $139,400 ($2.29 million) to develop the Model 10 Electra, a small twin-engined transport. The company sold 40 in the first year of production. Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, flew it in their failed attempt to circumnavigate the world in 1937. Subsequent designs, the Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior and the Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra expanded their market.
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I'm a Dayton boy. I grew up seeing WPAFB Museum from my bedroom window. Kelly was a hero and I taught his minimal, hands-off, efficient and prototype project management methods in project management courses and it is still the most productive development project management methods I know. Our close family friend worked with Kelly Johnson. The guy is a legend.
Greetings: Thx , Kelly, 4 Yr dedication and contributions. Ur R appreciated. RIP
You look mad dumb when you type like that
Skunk Works and Lockheed make Dreams Come True 😴💭
Lockheed made so many great aircraft. And Kelly Johnson was such a great engineer and leader. Now days it takes so long to produce an aircraft even with the help of computers. The Blackbird and so many other planes we produced in such a short time its almost impossible.
That's because there's too many middle men and too much money changing hands for external contractors.
If every part of industry can be covered domestically it gets done massively more efficiently.
The globalist world we live in has us more connected than ever but man is everything wasteful and expensive.
Just because it's not public knowledge doesn't mean it's not being built.
Our technology gets even more complicated over the time. More research needed= more time
I just watched the time go from 1:59 am to 3am
Happy spring !
Interesting that reconnaissance photos that have been declassified are now being used to find archeological sites.
Be Quiet…Be Thorough…Be On Time!
Anybody Seen Kelly?❤️
My own video recommend this, and I really enjoyed it. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Happy spring !
I grew up in Dayton, and could see WPAFB from my bedroom window. Dad was in the AAC in WWII. Love of airplanes is a passion.
Growing up, close friend of our family worked with Kelly Johnson.
I taught his project management methodology is still the best, most efficient and let teams work miracles no other methodology can. I applied it in R&D PM since the 70s. He is an American treasure.
FUN FACT: (secret) SkunkWorks was funded by hand carried untraceable bags of cash. Idk now.
Thank you for your service to humanity
Have you seen the short comedic video called "LA Speed check"?
Who me? No
Where can I find the video so I can watch it?
Thanks!
Thank you 🙏
Absolute banger of a video, but i have to ask, is this a re-upload of a previously made video..?? It seems very familiar...??
This is the complete video, the previous one was split into 3 parts
Wish Those Smart People were around in 2024
To show the beautiful design of the A12 airframe, there is a vid on u tube of a jet scale model, very good flight characteristics.
Johnson announced it as the A-11. With pictures of the YF-12. The A-12 came first. Set records first. Was silver/dark gray. Never a "so-called" Blackbird.
Well, to add to the mystery and mystique of the aircraft, let me make it even more confusing:
We found a photo of Kelly Johnson on his desk, and please take a look at the name of the "A-12" model...
dronescapes.video/F12B
@Dronescapes possibly the A-12 that became the Blackbird was called the A-12B before SR-71 which is the USAF name. You can't see if model has the back seat window.
I remember this very well !!😂😂😂
Atrue genuine last of the few true crafstmans. In aviation
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Wild language!!!
Craftsman/craftsmen.
yt recommend you so i subbed
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Citations of efficiency and lower cost here are really tiny compared to the record lay down by a private company ohh upwards of 98%. This was Musk's lower stage reusable launch vehicle Falcon. Amazing low costs and percentage effective rating compared to NASA's
huge budgets and many failures--- of course we will not know how much of the big budget for these various NASA projects were being siphoned off for clandestine projects.
Excellent video!
One airplane that very very few people know about it's called "Stryker". Even in 2024 you have never seen anything come close to the performance of it and no radar or technic can located. The only time the public will see it is in WW3. From testing, the laser took down every single target at any speed.
It was improved to Stryker 2.0 after the Chinese tracked it.
Nothing on Aurora? Nothing on those satellite clusters?
@8:36 the US did not declare war on Germany until Germany declared war on the US 1st. Both declarations were on December 11th. What's funny though is Bulgaria & Romania both declared war on the US on December 12th, 1941! FDR thru the State Dept. tried to get them to recind it but they wouldn't so 6 months later in June of 1942, FDR asked Congress to declare war on Bulgaria & Romania...which they did.
If Japan just waited 2 weeeks before attacking Pearl, they would've seen the USSR launch a counteroffensive German Army which was already stopped outside Moskow Maybe the USSR is not going to be defeated so easily. It's hard for Germany, a country of 80 million people beating the USSR, a country of 200 million..esp. when Germany's in a 2 front war.
F104 The flying coffin!
I like the Saturn
Very interesting! COOL! :) Thanks a lot!
Thank you too!
Dry, thorough and priceless... Who put this together?
The F35 is dropping in cost so rapidly it’s almost the new F16!
This was a great story. A few computer narration errors but overall a very good documentary. Couldn’t have made it any shorter, it’s an important story!
Good job!
May 17th is my birthday, /six seven.
Check out the book, Anti-Gravity Vehicals.
The freakiest plane ever built
8:43 the US declared war on Japan but not on Germamy Germamy was tje one to declare war on the US
Incorrect... The US declared war on Japan December 8th, 1941. It declared war on Germany and Italy December 11th, 1941.
The US capitalism was and is always capable to beat soviet communism and whatever ideology they govern with these days.
(Surely is some mix of the two nowadays)
Having many companies competing to win contracts with its government is, without a doubt, the best way to evolve any technology.
I am doing as well as ic
Skunkworks.
In aviation
Good Video, However it is probably about the 5th or 6th video that is Narrated using History Channel and Or Wings series script dialogue. Not being Critical, I just Remember Details of Most Every Aircraft Video that I have ever seen.lol
Thanks, please keep in mind that our partner/producer was one of the founders of Wings (Phil O.), so he has a treasure trove of videos, and aviation material.
He also produced, and licensed to literally all sort of platforms over the last two decades, usually for a limited length of a few years.
Being a producer, you can appreciate the fact that most of those videos were simply licensed back in the days, and that most TV channels have since folded.
We have a very long term deal with many of these producers, and in various forms as well, including making new videos, or restoring some, or using material that has never been used (some specific archives exceed 200 hours) As an example, some of the Eric Brown, Whittle, etc. videos might have been broadcasted a decade ago, or more, but we are publishing them on the channel, often including parts that have never been seen before, as they were not aired originally (Quantafilm in this instance).
there are still many videos that are going to be released in the future that are still in 16mm form, and need to be digitized. etc.
@@Dronescapes I just Remember all of the wings Videos and History Channel Videos From back as far as they Started Production, I was not being critical at all, Just got a Kick out of the original dialogue, I am one of the biggest aviation fans you ever met, I Appreciate that You are Presenting Actual History and Actual Facts unlike another Video I Watched that The Content Creators were Using the Same Video Content and Literally making Things up That Sounded ok to Them being Apparently Part of the Younger Generation, However their Supposed Information was So Far from Historical Facts I Got a Headache from Shaking my head so much, 20 minutes and Several Fabricated Historical Comments from the Two Guys Commenting, I Hit the Not Interested button and went to other Historical factual material, Thanks for Carrying on the Original Producers Legacy of Integrity, It Still Appreciated.
I did not take that as a critique, I actually appreciated your comment. I was just sharing a bit of insight of how interesting the "behind the scenes" is, which is something we never share.
Interestingly we now also have an archivist at NARA (National Archives) digging through reels, and interesting material. some of it, already featured on the channel, has never been published before.
NARA is like the last scene of "The Lost Ark", a treasure trove of fascinating material.
This said, we are far from perfect, but we are working on getting better. We now have a lot of people of a certain age among the team, and they often have amazing memories, material, and stories to share.
Let's see what the future brings us.
RUclips is a very interesting and versatile platform that does not follow the rigid rules of broadcasting, and that is a great opportunity, especially for preserving the past.
Grummam F6F - 3 and 5 destroyed more Japanese aircraft than any other. I guess you can say whatever you want.
didn't japan just release a new gen jet that's supposedly superior to everything
Not in the same league as the English Electric lightning.
Ever heard of a SR72?
Way above...
it seems the military wants more for lss
If you had a customer that you could count on, no matter the economy, unemployment or anything else... I would certainly want to please!
FT Worth Lock Head Martin🔥👍🇺🇸,I Sleep well
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Cocked...locked...steady
The mach 3, 80,000 ft, 600°F infrared target drone for a mach 5 missile. The closest thing to "useful" it ever got was identifying civilian targets for B-52 carpet bombing.
Ummm... NO. The SR-71 flew over Egyptian forces to determine if they had retreated from the Sinai in '69.
@@manfromks I believe the vast majority of SR-71 missions were over Vietnam
@@fieldlab4 many flights over Russia. They tried to catch it with a Mig-25. You need to get past your personal bias a do some research.
Lol, I was part of the Blackbird program, over a thousand missiles were shot at her, no hits. She flew wherever she wanted. Around North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, Libya, and yes, Vietnam. Do some research 🤔. Might learn something. She identified and recorded radar and missile signatures on every flight, among other things. Her defenses were second to none.
@@manfromksBlackbirds never overflew Russian territory.
Supersonic speeds.I very much doubt that.Unrealistic . What would the "Enemy" make of this ?
Your English is very good. Understood all of it.
And California is California... Did you hear that 30% of the entire worlds corn and soybeans come out of the midwest? And that the grow wheat almost to the extent of Ukraine and Russian stepps? And the total value was over 350 billion dollars?
The agriculture sector of just California is over 1 trillion dollars a year.
And California has high tech (invented it in fact) plus manufacturing, movies (invented them in fact), and a military industrial complex that is unrivaled in the world.
Comnibe it all togearher and California has a gross state product of over 4 trillion dollars making it the 5th richest country in the world.
John, your spelling is bad, really bad.
😂
Very interesting, but unfortunately ruined by the constant drone of an irrelevant and distracting background music track.
I disagree. What happened to the automobile industry? even worse motorcycle industry? Japanese and Germans obliterated that
Although in the automotive industry the latest big change has been the electric car, forcing everyone else to try to catch up, starting with the Germans that ended up not being so credible in their effort.
That revolution was sparked by the United States, and someone born in South Africa (Musk). Factor in China as well, as they have been on top of that for a long time, although their global presence is not yet evident.
As for motorcycles, the maximum expression being MotoGp, Ducati has been obliterating Japanese brands like Honda and Yamaha for a couple of years despite being a bug compared to the Asian brands. Today the field is being ruled by Europeans (Ducati, KTM and Aprilia) with the Japanese struggling to catch up, and Honda even resorting to have Europeans build their chassis, which was unheard of.
The pinnacle of the automotive world (F1) is dominated by the Brits (with some rare exceptions thanks to Ferrari), and even when Mercedes was recently winning, it was virtually a British team with a German logo. When Toyota entered the F1 world in full force, and with the biggest budget of the field, despite many years of racing their cars, they failed to make a mark, and when Honda sold their uncompetitive team for $1 (Brawn), the Brits won the championship the 1st year.
And now that we've seen what a failure the F-35's lift fan has been, do we feel that Boeing should've won that competition instead? Even despite it being the ugliest plane ever constructed? Yes, even uglier than a French inter-war bomber?
Failure? 😆😆😆 if it was such a " failure why did Italy, UK and Japan buying the B model. Ignorant people like you should learn to do research and quit being so uninformed
It looks more like the pronunciation was changed, not the spelling of Lockheed. Can anyone confirm?
It’s not pronounced “A-Giss”. It’s “Eee-Jiss”. Aegis.