2013 Event A successor to the SR-71 Blackbird is being built by Lockheed Martin. The company's Advanced Development Programs, known by the alias Skunk Works, has taken on the challenge to builde the SR-72, capable of flying at mach 6 with expected delivery in 2023 2012 Event The first space-bound Orion spacecraft is unveiled in Cape Canaveral, FloridaFlorida by NASA and Lockheed Martin 1995 Event Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed 1987 Death Roger Lewis, aviation executive (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75 1985 Event Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, 137 die 1978 Event Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair 1976 Event Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair 1968 Event USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world 1964 Event Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) 1963 Event 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely 1962 Event 1st Lockheed A-12 flies 1962 Event 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested 1961 Event Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20 1960 Event CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft 1959 Event Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory 1957 Event Major Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH 1957 Event Major Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K) 1912 Birthday Roger Lewis, aviation executive, Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am
