Letter Hopkins

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Just a Cover Story

The July 19 issue is terrific. I read it from cover to cover. I did note a minor mistake on the piece on Lockheed Corp. (“20 Companies That Reflect L.A.”) You refer to the F-19 stealth bomber as a major program in the 1980s. Actually, the F-19 was a cover deliberately leaked out. The actual airplane being built was the F-117 stealth fighter/bomber, which of course gained fame in the Persian Gulf War and was used effectively also in Kosovo/Serbia. Other major programs during the 1980s were the final stages of the L-1011, the P-3 and its derivatives and the TR-1, the follow-on to the U2. These, of course, were just the outstanding programs in Burbank/Palmdale. The Trident/space shuttle/SDI programs were based in Sunnyvale.

ROSS HOPKINS

Chairman, United Chambers of Commerce, San Fernando Valley

Lockheed Public Affairs Manager 1978-1990.

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