if they can do that with a frigging pole, what can they do with their damned model?” Just one year later, Lockheed’s Have Blue would take its first flight on its way to change aviation history.

Lockheed's Model 12-A was a twin-engine transport plane that the aerospace firm manufactured between 1936 and 1942. It was designed as a smaller version of Lockheed's 10-A, sitting just over 36 ...