This is an edited transcript of an oral history interview of Lloyd Graham conducted by Volker Janssen. Lloyd Graham was an engineer who worked on maritime patrol aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force and Lockheed. He was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada on October 23, 1927. After graduating university with a degree in general engineering he went to work in 1948 as an oceanographic technician for the Canadian Department of Fisheries station in St. Andrews, making ocean temperature and salinity surveys. In January 1951 he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force, trained as a navigator, and served on anti-submarine patrols. He became an instructor on Lockheed P2V Neptune aircraft and in 1960 went to RCAF headquarters as a staff officer in the Directorate of Maritime and Transport Requirements. He then served as liaison officer to the U.S. Naval Air Development Center in Johnsville, PA, to a joint US-Canadian anti-submarine program called A-New. In 1966 he returned to Canada and attended and then taught at the Canadian Forces Staff College in Toronto. In 1968 he accepted a job offer from Lockheed in Burbank, working on the S-3A Viking. He later ran a program to convert P-3s into transport aircraft and air-surveillance aircraft for drug interdiction. He retired from Lockheed in 1990. [Object file name], Aerospace Oral History Project, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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