TY - GEN AU - Rich, Ben R. TI - Skunk works : a personal memoir of my years at lockheed SN - 9780316743006 U1 - 338.76 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Little Brown and Company N1 - Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 A Promising Start 3 2 Engines by GE, Body by Houdini 28 3 The Silver Bullet 62 4 Swatting at Mosquitoes 87 5 How We Skunks Got Our Name 106 6 Picture Postcards for Ike 117 7 Overflying Russia 137 8 Blowing Up Burbank 169 9 Faster Than a Speeding Bullet 192 10 Getting Off the Ground 220 11 Remembering Habu 238 12 The China Syndrome 262 13 The Ship That Never Was 271 14 The Long Goodbye 281 15 The Two-Billion-Dollar Bomber 300 16 Drawing the Right Conclusions 316 Epilogue 343 Index 353 ER -