Skunk works : a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed

By:

Rich, Ben R

Contributor(s):

Janos, Leo

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Back Bay Books 1994Description: x, 372pISBN:

9780316743006 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.7623746 RIC

Summary: This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is ""a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real"" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, 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.

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This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is ""a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real"" (New York Times Book Review).

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, 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.

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