Aircraft Contributions
While at Lockheed, Johnson designed the P-38 Lightning fighter, made Fowler flaps work on the Model 14 Super Electra, and played a major role in converting the type into the Royal Air Force's Lockheed Hudson on short notice in 1938. He worked on the development of the Constellation for Howard Hughes' TWA airline.
Johnson contributed to the design of the following Lockheed aircraft:
- Orion 9D
- Model 10 Electra/XC-35/C-36/Y1C-37
- Model 12 Electra Junior
- Model 14 Super Electra
- Model 18 Lodestar
- PV-1 Ventura/B-37
- P-38 Lightning
- Constellation family
- L-049 Constellation
- L-149 Constellation
- C-69 Constellation
- L-649 Constellation
- L-749 Constellation
- C-121A-B Constellation
- PO-1W/WV-1 Warning Star
- L-1049 Super Constellation
- C-121C-J/R7O/R7V Constellation
- PO-2W/WV-2/WV-3/EC-121 Warning Star
- YC-121F/R7V-2 Constellation
- L-1649 Starliner
- C-121C-J/R7O/R7V Constellation
- L-749 Constellation
- L-049 Constellation
- F-80 Shooting Star, the first successful American jet fighter;
- T-33 and TV-2 trainers
- P2V Neptune
- XF-90
- F-94 Starfire
- X-7
- F-104 Starfighter
- F-117A Nighthawk
- C-130 Hercules
- U-2
- Blackbird family: A-12, YF-12, SR-71, M-21, and D-21
- JetStar/C-140
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