Full name: Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

Author: Ben R. Rich Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Science Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316743006 0316743003

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies 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. Similar books: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Rocket Men by Robert Kurson The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell E=mc2 by David Bodanis The Knife Man by Wendy Moore How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges Vaccinated by Paul A. Offit Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick Brighter than a Thousand Suns by Robert Jungk The Curve of Binding Energy by John McPhee