Willis Hawkins
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)For the Georgia Supreme Court justice, see Willis A. Hawkins.
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 Willis Hawkins, in front of a C-130, linked to from the http://www.godickson.com/ahsfv.htm web page, and ultimately from an LA Times Obituary. |
Willis Moore Hawkins (December 1, 1913 – September 28, 2004) was an
F-104 Starfighter. During World War II, he was part of the group of Lockheed designers who designed the first American attempt at a jet plane, the Lockheed L-133
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In 1951, he led the design team that created the proposal for the Lockheed Model 82, which would become the
US Army from 1962 to 1965, where he was instrumental in starting development of the M1 Abrams main battle tank. He retired from Lockheed in 1980, but Lockheed chairman Roy Anderson
brought Hawkins back to run the Lockheed—California Company on an interim basis in the 1980s. Hawkins retired for good in 1986. He died in 2004 at the age of 90, after witnessing the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the C-130's first flight on August 23, 1954.
References
- An obituary of Willis Hawkins from the Marshall Institute
- "Willis Hawkins and the Genesis of the Hercules", by Jeff Rhodes, from Code One
- OAC Willis M. Hawkins Papers, 1920-2009
- [1] "Youtube with interview sequences of Willis Hawkins"
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