Lockheed L-357 lightweight fighter, 1958

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Mentioned in Flying Review July 1958 as a rival to the N-156F, but with greater speed.

Probably related to the F-104?

 

[Orionblamblam]

Very like F-104B.

 

[lark]

Why a two-seat trainer version in a fighterbomber competition ?
Maybe the L-357 and the CL-357 a two different concepts.

Brief Flying Review article mentioned that the performences ,except for the speed factor, were
almost the same.

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

One book on Google (https://books.google.com/books?id=y...HoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=lockheed cl-357&f=false) lists only CL-357, which is the Starfighter derivative discussed in this thread. Any idea if L-357 is a typo for CL-357?

 

[hesham]

You got a treasure of Lockheed designation.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

You got a treasure of Lockheed designation.

Not really. Its a pretty crappy list and the author doesn't really understand the designation systems. There is a much better list in existence, but not published.

 

[hesham]

Of course my dear Paul,

but it completed some gaps in my list,and by the way there was anther two books from this series about Martin and
North American as I know.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

The CL- prefix arrived in late 1953 / early 1954 with the CL-269. The reason seems to be that the new Lockheed Georgia plant was starting to do its own preliminary designs so the CL- prefix was introduced for Lockheed California (CALAC) and GL- for Lockheed Georgia (GALAC).