000 01052 a2200157 4500
020 _a9780316743006
082 _a338.76
_bRIC
100 _aRich, Ben R.
245 _aSkunk works : a personal memoir of my years at lockheed
260 _aNew York
_bLittle Brown and Company
_c2023
300 _ax,372p.
505 _aContents 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
890 _aUSA
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