1956 Lockheed Job Advertisement

Less than a year after the U-2 Dragon Lady made its first flight, Lockheed was enticing jobseekers in the engineering field with ads promising 'a new era of classified projects'. 

With the challenge of long-range design and development projects, perhaps successful candidates went to work on the SR-71 Blackbird and F-104 interceptor projects. Just a year later, the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellite, sending shock waves through the western world. By the end of the 1950s, Lockheed would be at the forefront — very secretly — of developing the first U.S. imagery spy satellites. 

This advert appeared in the March 5, 1956 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology

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