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  Lockheed Martin, the Early Years    
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Here's a little early history about one of the largest technology companies in America.
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  Lockheed Martin, the Later Years    
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Lockheed Martin quiz about its late 20th Century accomplishments.
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Lockheed Martin Trivia Questions
1. 1976: What planetary landers arrive on Mars?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: Viking I and II

The Viking landers had components developed by various heritage companies of the present Lockheed Martin: Lockheed, Martin Marietta, General Dynamics, Xerox Electro-Optical Systems.

2. 1978: This heritage company was selected by the Department of Defense to develop the ground control system for the Global Positioning System.

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: IBM Federal Systems

Global Positioning System, the world standard for pinpointing locations, won a Collier Trophy in 1992.

3. With whose company did Martin first merge his company in 1916?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: The Wright Brothers

In 1916, the Glenn L. Martin Company merged with the Wright Company to form the Wright-Martin Aircraft Company. (Douglas and McDonnell were engineers who had worked for Martin since 1912. Hughes was only a 11 at the time.) In 1917, he pulled out of that merger and reformed the Glenn L. Martin Co. in Ohio.

4. What missile system, developed by Martin Marietta, could hit the courtyard in the middle of the Pentagon from MM's plant in Orlando, FL?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: Pershing II

In fact, it could hit a luncheon kiosk in the middle of the courtyard. Every time.

5. What was the first twin engine bomber?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: MB-2

Built by Martin in 1918.

6. What necessary component of the Space Shuttle was developed by Martin Marietta?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: External fuel tank

Lockheed developed the heat-resistant tiles that allow the shuttle to re-enter the atmosphere.

7. The Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Co. sold what as its first military sale?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: Flying boats

In 1918, Loughead makes its first military sale -- of Curtiss HS-2L flying boats -- to the U.S. Navy.

8. What heritage company developed NEXRAD doppler weather radar?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: Unisys

9. When did Lougheed become Lockheed?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: 1926

After the demise of the original company, Allan Lougheed officially forms the Lockheed Aircraft Company. The name is spelled phonetically to alleviate earlier problems with pronunciation.

10. 1990: The Magellan spacecraft, produced by Martin Marietta and including subsystems made by heritage company Loral, travels 788 million miles through space before entering orbit around what planet?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: Venus

11. Who made the first solo flight around the world, in a Lockheed Vega?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: Wiley Post

in 1933, Post made the flight in a record 7 days, 19 hours in his Vega, named 'Winnie Mae'. Hughes made a round-the-world trip in 1938 in a Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra in 3 days, 19 hours, and 14 minutes.

12. 1990: The Lockheed-built SR-71 breaks another speed record, flying between Palmdale, CA, and Washington, DC, in:

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: 64 minutes, 2 seconds

At an average flying speed of 2,144.8 mph.

13. 1968: Lockheed's Deep Quest underwater research vehicles sets a depth record for submarines, diving to:

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: 8,310 ft.

14. The Martin B-26 bomber, first made in 1940, has what distinction?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: best survivability rate

More than 5,200 were produced.

15. 1967: Sanders, another heritage company, developed what that spawned the advent of the video game industry?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: Circuitry for making interactive patterns on the screen of a television receiver

16. 1943: Lockheed's development team code-named 'Skunk Works' works on what secret project?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: 1st American jet fighter

Lockheed's XP-80 Shooting Star flies for the first time in 1944. It sets a new world air speed record in 1947 of 623.8 MPH.

17. 1965: What rocket launched the first manned Gemini mission?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: Titan II

A Titan II rocket, built by Martin Marietta, launches two astronauts into space in the first of 10 successful manned Gemini missions.

18. 1949: The Martin Navy Viking research rocket sets a record for high altitude research at White Sands, New Mexico. How high did it go?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: 158 miles

19. When did Lockheed and Martin Marietta merge?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: 1995

20. In what year did Lockheed's top secret U-2 reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: 1955

21. 2001: Lockheed Martin employed approximately how many people?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: 165,000

22. 1958: Lockheed introduces the first FAA-approved flight data recorder. What are these colloquially called now?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: Black boxes

The 'black box' is now standard equipment on commercial airliners and many military transports. They aren't colored black, but bright colors, so that they can easily be seen in plane wreckage.

23. Who set the women's speed record in 1963?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: Jacqueline Cochran

She flew 1429 MPH in a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.

24. What is the Collier Trophy?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: American aeronautics or astronautics award

The Robert J. Collier Trophy is awarded annually 'for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, or safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year.' Lockheed Martin and its heritage companies have won many Collier Trophies.

25. What company does Martin merge with in the 1960's?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: American-Marietta

The merged company is now Martin Marietta.

26. 1998: What new family of rockets was developed for the US Air Force by Lockheed Martin?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Later Years

Answer: Atlas V

Lockheed Martin won a contract to build a new family of rockets for the U.S. Air Force, as part of its Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. The new EELV, dubbed Atlas V, will begin launching government and commercial payloads in late 2000.

27. What 1966 event symbolically foreshadowed the merger of Lockheed and Martin Marietta?

From Quiz Lockheed Martin, the Early Years

Answer: Two space vehicles made by the companies dock in space

Martin Marietta's Titan-launched Gemini VIII spacecraft and a Lockheed Agena became the first two vehicles to successfully dock (and undock) in space.

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