Among Kelly’s early successes was the P-80/F-80 Shooting Star, which, during the Korean War, became the first U.S. jet fighter to be used in combat.According to official U.S. Air Force records ...

Lightning, the first aircraft produced by Skunk Works under Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, played a pivotal role in World War II.

In 1943, Johnson proposed the idea of Lockheed building a jet fighter and doing so in an extremely short amount of time—180 days—in order to get it into service to help the war effort.

On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. This was the Lockheed ...

Here’s a laundry list of the historically significant Lockheed aircraft that had Kelly Johnson’s imprint of genius stamped upon them: The P-38 Lightning, the World War II fighter plane flown ...

The challenge was taken up by Kelly Johnson, the famous head of Lockheed’s Skunk Works, who designed many of the company’s most groundbreaking planes, including the L-10 Electra and P-38 ...

Conceived as a high-performance fighter for the export market, the Lockheed CL-1200 was a company-funded attempt to build an improved and cost-effective version of the Starfighter.