By Gary B.
I am from a Lockheed Martin family. In
fact, both my parents worked at Lockheed-California. My mother, Nellie, worked
in production control. Wes Bird, my father, worked in Burbank aircraft
production control and moved to missiles and space development. He then moved
to Sunnyvale and the Santa Cruz Test Base. He worked on Agena and Polaris missiles.
My father worked directly with company Vice President H. J Brown. My mother
followed Dad and worked in Sunnyvale.
I was hired in 1961, working in production
control. I later worked in data processing, the cutting-edge of
computers. My brother, Alex Weston, became president of the Management
Association.
We all worked on Gemini, Agena and Polaris
missile programs. Between all of us, our family has almost 100 years working at
Lockheed, sharing, and working on the cutting-edge of aerospace.
