Lockheed L-133 documentary

This documentary features Sherman Mullin and Willis Hawkins, former president and senior vice president of Lockheed's Skunk Works.
It tells the story of the development of the P-38, the L-133 and its L-1000 engine, subsequent founding of the Skunk Works and later development of the P-80, F-104, U-2, SR-71, Have Blue, F-117, F-22 and F-35. With this much history to cover, the best bits are when Mullin and Hawkins are reminiscing. There is some nice footage of most of the mentioned aircraft in here, some of it familiar, some new to me. Development of the Lockheed aircraft is presented against a wider historical background.

Nice find.

@Johnbr/moderator: could you please change subject title from 'Lockheed L113 Doc' to 'Lockheed L-133 Doc'?
 
That's one of a four-part series called 'Planes that never flew'. The other episodes are about the Saunders-Roe SR.177 mixed power interceptor, the American SST project and the Convair WS 125 nuclear-powered bomber.
 
Planes that never flew - WS125 nuclear bomber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-RP8Huivo

Planes that never flew - SR177 - Finnish subtitles - yay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwR7qMA4Vl8

Planes that never flew - The American SST Boeing 2707 4 parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29z-AH7D0Yg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwslvZx-8qE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gJK-DB8nBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQM6b9RonXM
 
Arjen

This documentary features Sherman Mullin and Willis Hawkins, former president and senior vice president of Lockheed's Skunk Works.It tells the story of the development of the P-38, the L-133 and its L-1000 engine, subsequent founding of the Skunk Works and later development of the P-80, F-104, U-2, SR-71, Have Blue, F-117, F-22 and F-35. With this much history to cover, the best bits are when Mullin and Hawkins are reminiscing.
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Yeah, what's really interesting is a statement made from 31:24 to 31:43 by Willis Hawkins: "The L-133 evolved in the way it did mostly because we were not very convinced that the right way of making a supersonic airplane was with swept wings."

Few people in the US seemed to understand that a swept wing could be useful to allow for supersonic flight. There was R.T. Jones who worked at NACA and he was at the cutting edge in 1942 when he discovered this.
 

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