biography
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Lockheed, Malcolm
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originally Loughead
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| male
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| lived:
| (?1887–1958)
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| biography:
| Aircraft executive, born in Niles, California, USA. He and his brother, Allan Haines Lockheed (1889–1969), also born in Niles, became automobile mechanics in San Francisco, and together they built their first aeroplane (named Model G) and made their first flight (1913). They flew exhibition flights at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) and then founded (1916) and ran the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Malcolm left the company (1919) and disappeared from public life. Allan co-founded the Lockheed Aircraft Co (1926); he legally changed his last name to Lockheed in 1934, but it had been pronounced that way even before. He built the Vega aircraft and left the company just prior to the stock-market crash (1929). He worked as a consultant and aircraft company vice-president, and also in real estate. |
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