Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
Little, Brown and Company · Print & ebook · February 1, 1996
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).
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- Who it’s for
- A brisk, insider memoir of engineering secrecy, ambition, and the machinery behind the myth.
- Themes
- aviation technology, Cold War history, military innovation
- Pacing
- Steady
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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.
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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. Filled with telling personal anecdotes and high adventure, with narratives from the CIA and from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the twentieth century. "Thoroughly engrossing." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Inside Track
A brisk, insider memoir of engineering secrecy, ambition, and the machinery behind the myth.
Come here for
- Lockheed’s inside track
- Aviation and special-ops adjacent intrigue
Expect
- Career-minded detail
- Dry, clipped wartime-industrial atmosphere
Where it sits
| Aeronautics & Astronautics | 47% |
|---|---|
| Military Aviation | 33% |
| Aviation & Nautical Lives | 32% |
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Publisher categories
- Military Lives
- Aviation & Nautical Lives
- Military Strategy
- Military Aviation
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- Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Technology
- Authors
- Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- February 1, 1996
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- aviation technology · Cold War history · military innovation
- Reading lane
- Military Lives