Lockheed Corporation

Lockheed Corporation appears in Vol.268 两个劳斯莱斯 as the U.S. aerospace and defense company trying to re-enter civil airliners through the [[LockheedL1011TriStar|L-1011 TriStar]]. The episode says Lockheed chose [[RollsRoyce|Rolls-Royce]] as the exclusive engine supplier for the TriStar, making the aircraft’s market promise depend heavily on the [[RollsRoyceRB211|RB211]] engine.

The source uses Lockheed to show that contract allocation does not eliminate engineering interdependence. When RB211 slipped, Lockheed could not simply switch engines because the aircraft had been designed around RB211. That turned the aircraft into an Airframe Engine Lock-In case and helped push Lockheed toward a U.S. government loan-guarantee fight.

Lockheed later becomes the source’s corruption branch. The episode says pressure to win overseas aircraft orders contributed to payments through intermediaries in Japan, making Lockheed Bribery Scandal and Overseas Bribery Export Sales part of the same historical tail as the TriStar and RB211.

Connections

• [[LockheedL1011TriStar|L-1011 TriStar]] and [[RollsRoyceRB211|RB211]] - aircraft and engine program.
• Fixed Price Engineering Risk and Airframe Engine Lock-In - risk patterns surfaced by the contract.
• Lockheed Bribery Scandal, Tanaka Kakuei / 田中角荣, Marubeni / 丸红, Kodama Yoshio / 儿玉誉士夫, and All Nippon Airways / 全日空 - overseas sales and bribery branch.
• Boeing and [[McDonnellDouglasDC10|DC-10]] - competitive aircraft-market context.