Skunk Works, A Personal Narrative of My Years of Lockheed

This classic history of America’s high-stakes mission to dominate the skies is “a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real” (New York Times Book Review). From the advancement of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Functions is the true story of America’s most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation’s dazzling boss for nearly twenty years, the chronicle of Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Functions is a drama of cold war conflicts and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement versus wonderful odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of researchers and engineers who made the Skunk Works so prominent. Filled with telling individual anecdotes and high adventure, with stories from the CIA and from Flying force pilots who flew the lots of classified, dangerous missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most magnificent aviation triumphs of the twentieth century. “Completely immersing.”– Los Angeles Times Book Evaluation

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