The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs Book PDF, ePub eBook

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓


Book Descriptions:
The stories behind more than 50 secret projects undertaken by the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works on behalf of the US Armed Forces, DARPA, and the CIA - all illustrated with official Skunk Works photography and commissioned artworks.

Hatched in June 1943 after a special request of the US Army Air Forces to develop a turbojet-powered fighter to counter growing German threats, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has gone on to develop remarkable aeronautical and space technologies, including stealth. Some have made it into production, while others never quite made it off drafting boards and computer screens, but proved fascinating nonetheless.

This generously illustrated history tackles Skunk Works programs ranging from jet fighters and jet engines to missiles and rockets, helicopters, research aircraft, airships, unmanned aerial vehicles and recon drones, and even the seagoing stealth ship Sea Shadow - more than 50 in all.

Author Steve Pace examines the historical context which led government organizations to approach the Skunk Works, as well as the technologies and projects developed there (often on a handshake and unburdened by bureaucracies), and the anecdotes and legends associated with each program. Pace includes official Skunk Works photography of the projects taken both at its headquarters and at test facilities such as Area 51. In addition, commissioned color artworks help further illustrate many of these projects featured herein. In addition to profiling legendary aircraft like the F-80, F-94, F-104, U-2, SR-71, F-117, and F-35, Pace takes on more obscure projects from the past as well as those still to come, such as the hypersonic SR-72 and High Speed Strike Weapon, and even offers a peak into what the future might hold with the proposed TR-X.

The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs by Steve Pace

From reader reviews:

Brandi Cardoza:

Throughout other case, little people like to read book The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs. You can choose the best book if you love reading a book. So long as we know about how is important the book The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs. You can add expertise and of course you can around the world by just a book. Absolutely right, because from book you can know everything! From your country until finally foreign or abroad you will end up known. About simple point until wonderful thing it is possible to know that. In this era, we could open a book or searching by internet unit. It is called e-book. You need to use it when you feel fed up to go to the library. Let's go through.

Dorothy Guillen:

Does one one of the book lovers? If so, do you ever feeling doubt if you are in the book store? Try to pick one book that you never know the inside because don't judge book by its cover may doesn't work is difficult job because you are scared that the inside maybe not because fantastic as in the outside look likes. Maybe you answer could be The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs why because the fantastic cover that make you consider in regards to the content will not disappoint you. The inside or content is fantastic as the outside or even cover. Your reading 6th sense will directly guide you to pick up this book.

Craig Chivers:

This The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs is great guide for you because the content and that is full of information for you who all always deal with world and get to make decision every minute. This kind of book reveal it info accurately using great coordinate word or we can state no rambling sentences within it. So if you are read the item hurriedly you can have whole information in it. Doesn't mean it only offers you straight forward sentences but challenging core information with wonderful delivering sentences. Having The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs in your hand like finding the world in your arm, facts in it is not ridiculous just one. We can say that no guide that offer you world in ten or fifteen tiny right but this publication already do that. So , it is good reading book. Hey there Mr. and Mrs. busy do you still doubt this?

Anthony Koch:

A lot of people said that they feel fed up when they reading a guide. They are directly felt the item when they get a half parts of the book. You can choose the book The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs to make your own reading is interesting. Your own skill of reading skill is developing when you just like reading. Try to choose basic book to make you enjoy to study it and mingle the idea about book and looking at especially. It is to be initially opinion for you to like to open up a book and read it. Beside that the guide The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs can to be a newly purchased friend when you're sense alone and confuse in what must you're doing of the time.