• Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects...
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    various aircraft. As a member and first team leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works, Johnson worked for more than four decades and is said to have been an...
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    Operated) or own their own buildings outright (e.g., Lockheed Martin Skunk Works). There are eight production sites specially suited for advanced technology...
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    Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft during the 1960s by Lockheed's Skunk Works division. American aerospace engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was responsible...
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  • 1995) was an American engineer and the second Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, succeeding its founder, Kelly Johnson. Regarded as...
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  • conducted by its Advanced Development Division, more commonly known as the Skunk works. The name was taken from Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner. This organization...
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  • (4,000 mph; 6,400 km/h; 3,500 kn) for the Air Force. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works' development work on the SR-72 was first published by Aviation Week &...
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    demonstrator for a stealth fighter. Have Blue was designed by Lockheed's Skunk Works division, and tested at Groom Lake, Nevada. The Have Blue was the first...
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    government's position." Former Skunk Works director Ben Rich confirmed that "Aurora" was simply a myth in Skunk Works (1994), a book detailing his days...
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  • Fusion Reactor (CFR) was a fusion power project at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. Its high-beta configuration, which implies that the ratio of plasma...
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    is an American experimental supersonic aircraft under development by Skunk Works for NASA's Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator project. Preliminary design started...
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    twin-engine stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). It was the...
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  • designed and built by Edge Autonomy and originally sold by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works for an unspecified customer, presumably United States Special Operations...
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  • “Skonk Works” factory in Al Capp’s Li'l Abner comic strip. The "organizing genius" Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was the first team leader of Skunk Works and...
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    working in a separate division of the company, informally called the "Skunk Works". Johnson's design, named CL-282, was based on the Lockheed XF-104 with...
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  • skunkworks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Skunkworks or Skunk works may refer to: Skunk Works, an official trademark for the Lockheed Martin Advanced...
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  • ceiling: 65,000 ft (20,000 m) "Farnborough picture: Lockheed Martin Skunk Works releases picture of secret Polecat UAV." Flight International. July 19...
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  • to the Advanced Development Programs (ADP), informally known as the "Skunk Works". Various subassemblies are produced at locations in Florida, Mississippi...
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  • its Skunk Works division. A full-scale mockup of the aircraft was built and filmed at China Lake. Kosinski said, "The reason we approached Skunk Works is...
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  • one of the 40 founding engineers of the renowned and highly secretive Skunk Works project while at Lockheed Corporation. Throughout her life, Ross was...
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    and Northrop were selected on 31 October 1986. Lockheed, through its Skunk Works division at Burbank, California, then teamed with Boeing and General...
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    prototype 79–780, designated YF-117A. At 6:05 am on 18 June 1981 Lockheed Skunk Works test pilot Hal Farley lifted the nose of YF-117A 79–780 off the runway...
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    for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by Lockheed's Skunk Works, based on the designs of Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. The aircraft was designated...
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    support, while the defence industry depends on government for revenue. Skunk Works is a term used in engineering and technical fields to describe a group...
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    aerospace company Lockheed Martin, at its Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works) facility in Palmdale, California. The X-55 is a one-off aircraft intended...
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    government officials. According to Ben Rich, director of Lockheed's Skunk Works: Lockheed executives admitted paying millions in bribes over more than...
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  • qualifications for the contract. Aeronautics Business Area, including Skunk Works Missiles and Fire Control Business Area "MFC" Rotary and Mission Systems...
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    Department of Defense in September 1959. During this time, Lockheed's Skunk Works was developing the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft for the U.S. Central...
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    with high security and greater autonomy, a continuation of Lockheed's Skunk Works style of research and development.[citation needed] With the Germans...
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  • generation fighter concept Echo Voyager, an autonomous underwater vehicle Skunk Works, a similar division of Lockheed Martin NASA Eagleworks Executive Biographies...
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