Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos
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From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and 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 and human achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned.
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Aeronautics, Aeronautics, Military, Career in aeronautics, History, Lockheed Advanced Development Company, Lockheed aircraft, Military Aeronautics, Research, Aeronautics, history, United states, history, Erlebnisbericht, Geschichte 1945-1994, Lockheed Corporation, Aeronautics, research, Lockheed airplanes, Aeronautics, biography, Aerospace & air transport industriesPeople
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Skunk Works: a Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
2013, Little Brown & Company
in English
1306759315 9781306759311
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
February 1, 1996, Back Bay Books
Paperback
in English
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0316743003 9780316743006
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Skunk works: a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed
1995, Warner
in English
0751515035 9780751515039
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Skunk Works: a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed
1994, Little, Brown
in English
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0316743305 9780316743303
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First Sentence
"It's August 1979 on the scorching Nevada desert, where Marines armed with ground-to-air Hawk missiles are trying to score a "kill" against my new airplane, an experimental prototype code-named Have Blue."
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