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Skunk Works
Skunk Works

Skunk Works

by Back Bay Books
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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. 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
AUTHORS:

Leo Janos,Ben R. Rich

PUBLISHER:

Little, Brown and Company

ISBN-10:

0316743003

ISBN-13:

9780316743006

BINDING:

Paperback / softback

BISAC:

Technology & Engineering

PUBLICATION YEAR:

1996

NUMBER OF PAGES:

400

BOOK DIMENSIONS:

8.25(H) x 5.50(W) x 1.45(D)

AUDIENCE TYPE:

General / Adult

LANGUAGE:

English

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