Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R Rich
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“@elidourado @pmarcas_likes What broke was our risk tolerance. The "Skunkworks" book is a great insider story of that. The day that the financial auditors outnumbered the engineers was the day the innovation died: | Adding some history of science and tech books that I enjoyed this year: Skunk Works The Code Book How Music Got Free The Infinite Machine A Crack in Creation Working in Public No Filter Super Pumped Losing the Signal Autonomy How Innovation Works”
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Aerospace Engineering, Engineering, and Most Recommended Books.
From the development of the U2 to the Stealth fighter, the neverbeforetold story behind the highstakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret & successful aeroSpace Opera,tion. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk W...
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Linda Xie
“@elidourado @pmarcas_likes What broke was our risk tolerance. The "Skunkworks" book is a great insider story of that. The day that the financial auditors outnumbered the engineers was the day the innovation died: | Adding some history of science and tech books that I enjoyed this year: Skunk Works The Code Book How Music Got Free The Infinite Machine A Crack in Creation Working in Public No Filter Super Pumped Losing the Signal Autonomy How Innovation Works”
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