DEC 21 2012
GAM Previews: 100 Years of Lockheed Martin 
From Eugene Ely’s first tentative landing on a makeshift wooden deck on the fantail of the heavy cruiser USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser #4) in a Curtiss pusher biplane on 18 January 1911 to the first vertical landing of the F-35B Lightning II on the asphalt deck of the USS Wasp (LHD-1) by Marine Corps test pilot Lt. Col. Fred Schenk on 3 October 2011, Naval Aviation has made astounding technological leaps over its first century.
This article, written by Jeff Rhodes, is reproduced with permission from Lockheed Martin’s Code One Magazine
The full article can be found in Issue 15 of Global Aviation Magazine
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