Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Skunk Works is the true story, told for the first time, of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the story of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a high-stakes 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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User Review - buffalogr - LibraryThingI picked up this book because I thought it might contain some background for part of my Air Force career--it did. Several of the other voices used by the author were people with whom I have worked ... Read full review
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User Review - mldavis2 - LibraryThingFive stars. Admittedly I am an aviation fan and a scientist so this book kept me captivated throughout. But it covers a lot of ground - an autobiography of Ben Rich and biography of Kelly Johnson of ... Read full review
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Ben R. Rich,Leo Janos No preview available - 1995 |
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| Title | Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed |
| Authors | Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos |
| Contributor | Leo Janos |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0316743305, 9780316743303 |
| Length | 370 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / General |
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