Military Photography: 2008

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Lockheed P2V Neptune in flight

The VH-71 presidential helicopter program achieved another major milestone today when the first operational pilot production helicopter (PP-1) completed its maiden flight at AgustaWestland's facility in Yeovil, England.

Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) operational prototypes during testing, more than half of which have been conducted off-road to simulate actual mission conditions.

Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS 1), the first-in-class coastal surface combatant.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in flight during flight tests.

First flight of the VH-71Helicopter

F-16 in Flight

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in flight

Lockheed Martin's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system at sunset.

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II inflight

Artist rendering of Lockheed Martin's High Altitude Airship.

Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion in flight

Lockheed Martin T-50 in flight

Launch of Atlas AV-014 ICO G1payload

Lockheed P2V Neptune in flight

July 28, 2008 when the nation’s first Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS 1), was put to sea for the first time, marking the beginning of Builder’s Sea Trials for the first-in-class coastal surface combatant.

The Constellation model-049 combined key virtues of high speed, reliable performance, passenger appeal, and sound operating economics. It was tested by Lockheed and the USAAF during the war and later became commercially available for postwar intercontinental travel.