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October 14, 2019 Up Close And Personal With The F-35s Securing The NATO Skies Over Iceland F-35
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Skunk Works Celebrates 75th Anniversary of Innovation and Secrecy

June 14, 2018 Tom Demerly 0

Lockheed Advanced Development Program Subverted Normal Channels On The Way to Innovation. The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, the F-104 Starfighter, the U-2 spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird and the D-21 supersonic drone, the F-117 Stealth […]

Two former Skunk Works members seem to know why the F-35 program is a mess

April 8, 2013 Dario Leone 15

Among the contents of the November 2012 issue of Classic Aircraft (a magazine that since Jan. 2013 has been incorporated into its sister magazine Aviation News), an interesting article written by Angus Batey gives an […]