Wayne Pryor; Longtime Lockheed Publicist

Wayne Pryor, 73, Lockheed publicist who edited 16 award-winning company publications. Himself a licensed pilot of private planes, Pryor was one of the first journalists to fly on the supersonic Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. He covered the aircraft for the Lockheed Star and for Hangar Flying and handled international publicity from Germany during the 1960s multinational production of the plane. Pryor wrote a reference series of feature articles on Lockheed aircraft from the Model G hydroaeroplane of 1912 to the L-1011 developed in the 1960s. Included were his interviews with founder Allan Lockheed and Kelly Johnson, creator of the innovative military arm known as the Skunk Works. Pryor, a World War II Navy combat veteran and a graduate of USC, worked for Lockheed from 1951 until his retirement in 1981. On Jan. 8 in Oak Harbor, Wash., of lung cancer.