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On paper, the specifications read like works of pure fantasy. Entrance plaza at the skunk works in palmdale, california. The story of lockheeds secret skunk works operation that produced innovative planes. The book tells of his first experiences at lockheed during the 1950s. This includes decompression, bailouts, inertia coupling, ejections, catastrophic disintegration, crashes and deaths. A personal memoir of my years at lockheed by ben r. Benjamin robert ben rich june 18, 1925 january 5, 1995. The individual stories are entertaining, but the overall book jumps around from stealth fighter to u2 to blackbird and back and forth. The skunk worksled development and flight testing of the lockheed martin, northrop grumman, bae systems x35 joint strike fighter jsf prototypes earned this team a collier trophy. Covers catching, dispatching, removal, selling, and how to tincture skunk essence with over 45 pictures and illustrations. Travelling from the battlefields of iraq and afghanistan to modernday skunk works in the midst of suburbia, wired for war will tantalise a wide readership, from military buffs to policy wonks to. A total of six collier trophies, the most prestigious award in the aeronautics industry, have been collected by the skunk works division.

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This book was written in 1994 and provides at the time views on thing like gulf war 1 and includes many details about us spy planes sr71, u2, and f117a developed at skunk works. A topflight aerospace engineers engrossing reminiscences of an eventful career in the service of the cia and us military at the height of the cold war. After an untimely exit from the royal new zealand air force. A personal memoir of my years of lockheed by ben r. Skunk works is an official pseudonym for lockheed martins advanced development programs. The book tells of his first experiences at lockheed during the 1950s at the height of the cold war. The book includes pieces on major works such as lord wearys castle, life studies, for the union dead, skunk hour, notebook, the sonnets of 196973 as well as four essays devoted to lowells last. The book has events in bens life like the passing of kelly johnson as well as the passing of bens wife faye. The aircraft was difficult to see, even to bats echolocation system. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.