The SR-71 Blackbird smart valve supplied only the hottest fuel to the engines and sent cooler fuel to retracted landing… Read More
‘We had the specks lab tested, and they turned out to be organic material—insects that had been injected into the… Read More
For 80 years, Skunk Works has pushed the innovation envelope, failing fast to prove out novel technologies and deliver disruptive… Read More
After all, they fraudulently possibly told their comrades that the United States was a lazy country that probably couldn’t even… Read More
SR-71 Blackbird Pilots and RSOs, even with gloves on, couldn’t keep their hands by the glass for more than a… Read More
Since the CIA wanted to keep the A-12 project secret, it determined that the Oxcart could not be tested at… Read More
Models of the F-19 Stealth Fighter started to appear in the eighties and were available from four manufacturers: Revell, Monogram,… Read More
Buddy Brown (Buddy is not a nickname it’s his real name) was one of a handful of men in the… Read More
The guy has on a fedora and a trench coat with a pink carnation in the lapel. Johnson says he… Read More
Taken on Nov. 1, 1981 by US Air Force (USAF) Scene Camera Operator Ken Hackman, the interesting photos in this… Read More
When Kelly Johnson began designing the advanced SR-71 Blackbird for the US Air Force, he appointed Robert J. “Bob” Gilliland… Read More
The F-117A Nighthawk shape was one thousand times less visible than the least visible shape previously produced at the Skunk… Read More
‘Airspeed indicators were on one side, attitude indicators were on the other, altimeter gauges were in the middle, and we… Read More
‘A weird thing was that after a (A-12) flight the windshields often were pitted with tiny black dots, like burn… Read More
‘He started to suck on it. Luckily, he realized his mistake in a split second and spit it out in… Read More
During the first flight at the Ranch, Kelly Johnson was on the radio telling Tony LeVier how to land the… Read More
There are conflicting observations about the birth of Skunk Works. On paper, the specifications read like works of pure fantasy:… Read More