Memoir
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
1994·382 pages
Ben Rich details his leadership of Lockheed's Skunk Works, chronicling secret aircraft development from the U-2 to stealth fighters amid Cold War tensions and Gulf War combat.
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Ben Rich details his leadership of Lockheed's Skunk Works, chronicling secret aircraft development from the U-2 to stealth fighters amid Cold War tensions and Gulf War combat.
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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 fantas...
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