The official retirement of the SR-71 Blackbird in 1990 was driven more by internal US Air Force politics and budget priorities than by high operational costs or obsolescence, according to Ben Rich, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: In Skunk Works, a 1994 book written by Ben Rich, the legendary Lockheed department’s former director, ...

In his well-written book, Skunk Works, Mr. Rich (who directed the organization from 1975 to 1991) describes engineering and management techniques the Skunk Works was using in the ’60s what are ...

Successor to the Skunk Works throne, colleague and later President Ben Rich, said in his book, “Skunk Works” that Kelly Johnson was, “The toughest boss west of the Mississippi, or east of it ...

Long before the world knew the SR-71, there was the A-12—a stealth jet so secret, it operated in the shadows. Designed by Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works team, the A-12 was faster, higher ...

Beginning in 1943, Lockheed’s Skunk Works gave the world the P-80 jet fighter, several CIA spy planes, the SR-71 Mach 3 Blackbird, and many others before it relocated to Palmdale in 1989.

The document was authentic, and “Aurora” was a real plane—but it wasn’t the plane that everyone thought it was. In Skunk Works, a 1994 book written by Ben Rich, the legendary Lockheed ...

He also wrote the book "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of my Years of Lockheed." In May 2010, ... Another Skunk Works engineer, Don Phillips, ...

This is a humble request to each of the chief executive officers of the nation’s 100 largest private foundations: Please start a skunk works -- a small, loosely run group that promotes creativity and ...

The achievements of the Skunk Works are legendary: The P-38 WW2 fighter aircraft, the first U.S. jet fighter, our first supersonic jet fighter, the U-2 spy plane, the Stealth Bomber and more.