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C. J. Hoffman, Phosphorus—Fluorine Oxidi rs, PF-150613-1, Part 7, Propulsion Chemistry Part II, Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Missiles and Space Div., Burbank, Calif., 1959. 

A. C. Jackson, J. F. Crocker, J. C. Ekvali, R. R. Eudaily, B. Mosesian, R. R. Van Cleave, and J. Van Hamersveld, Advanced Manufacturing Development of a Composite Empennage for L-1011 Aircraft, Phase II Final Report, Design Analysis, NASA CR 165634, Lockheed California Company, Burbank California, April 1981. 

In 1977, two fully loaded Boeing 747 commercial aircraft crashed into each other on a foggy runway in the Canary Islands. This accident was then the worst in aviation history and took 583 lives. An inquiry concluded most of the deaths in the Canary Islands accident resulted from the aviation fuel fire that lasted for more than 10 hours. G. Daniel Brewer, who was the hydrogen program manager for Lockheed, stated that if both aircraft had been using liquid hydrogen as fuel instead of kerosene, hun-... 

NASA has also funded research by several aerospace firms, including Lockheed and Boeing, to determine if liquid hydrogen could be practical for commercial aircraft and what modifications would be needed for airports and fueling systems. 

Until the late 1960s almost all tactical aircraft were largely titanium. Although titanium is relatively light, it is costly and has demanding production requirements so that its use was limited to moderate temperature aircraft applications. Today, most tactical aircraft have a sizable component that is polymeric, mainly composite. The Boeing F/A 18E/F and Lockheed F/A-22 have about 25%, by weight, composite material. It is projected that future military aircraft will have more than 35%i composite materials. 

Hoffman, C. J., Neville, R. G., Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Tech. Rept. 

In addition to Federal Government (U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, U. S. Army, Bureau of Mines, Bureau of Standards, etc.) requirements, several companies, including the American Novawood Corp., American Nuclear Corp., Gamma Process Co., General Electric Co., Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp., Picker X-Ray Corp., and U. S. Nuclear Corp., and the Japanese and Canadian governments have... 

Present address, Missiles Space Division, Lockheed Aircraft, Sunnyvale, Calif. 

In contrast to the vigorous efforts just discussed, development of liquid-hydrogen propulsion technology for jet planes is going nowhere. Lockheed s interest in hydrogen as a fuel for jet aircraft waned with the retirement of G. Daniel Brewer in 1985 and of his boss Willis Hawkins in 1993. 

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