Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

• Book ID: 126185623
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Standards
• City: New York
• ISBN: 031624693X

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

nonf_biography