Comments on: do you know this man? (Mar, 1955)

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:12:46 +0000

Chuck Berger: I’m sure that you have your own insights into writing ad copy.

By: Chuck Berger

Chuck Berger — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:47:27 +0000

“P.S. He may be you.”

P.P.S. If you didn’t already figure that out before the end of the ad, maybe you should keep your current job.

By: Tracy B

Tracy B — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:41:07 +0000

Interesting because GD left aviation/aerospace for a while to concentrate on subs and tanks– now they own Gulfstream. In 1985 GD bought the Cessna company but later sold it along the the Convair units to Lockheed, during the industry consolidation post cold war/Bill Clinton presidency.

You could probably do a master’s thesis on the consolidation of the defense/aerospace industry in the last 20 years; it makes for interesting “strange bedfellows management/working stiff relations.”

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:10:33 +0000

Toronto: Yeah and the F-16 was designed and initially supplied by General Dynamics, but they are all manufactured by Lockheed Martin now. (Gimme a break first flight of the C-130 was 1954).

The C-130J however had it’s first flight after the merger. It’s pure Lockheed Martin.

By: Toronto

Toronto — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:00:59 +0000

I’m pretty sure the Herc predates the Lockheed Martin merger/takeover/whatever, and was pure Lockheed.

By: Tracy B

Tracy B — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:31:18 +0000

C-130J too, along with the F-16 Fighting Falcon. (Lockheed)
Martin also made the titan II and III rockets.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:59:57 +0000

Toronto: Correct, and the F-35 and a lot of other things http://www.lockheedmartin.com/

By: Toronto

Toronto — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:07:44 +0000

“Martin” still exists in merged form as Lockheed Martin, don’t they? Maker of the F22?

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:27:07 +0000

And any sharp engineer understands that “Dept S-3″ means the reply came from Scientific American, month 3.

By: Tracy B

Tracy B — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:59:32 +0000

Until the U.S. government cuts the funds to the program.

It is interesting to note that the last Martin airplanes were built in the ’50′s.

Aerospace has always been at the whims of the presidency and elected congress.