Skunk Works A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America’s most secret & successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation’s brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works is a drama of cold war confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering & achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists & engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned. Filled with telling personal anecdotes & high adventure, with narratives from the CIA & from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the 20th century.

Author: Rich Ben R., Janos Leo
ISBN: 9780316246934
Year of publication: 2013
Genre: Biographies and Memoirs
Number of pages: 382
Reading time: 6 h. 22 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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