The Weekly Debrief: On 80th Anniversary, We Remember Skunk Works’ Best Failure

Credit: NASA
Fourteen years after creating Lockheed’s Advanced Development Programs unit—better known as the Skunk Works—one of the most successful managers in aerospace history was facing a management crisis in 1957. Clarence “Kelly” Johnson was refusing to build the aircraft that the U.S. Air Force wanted to...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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