75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
This pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service.

This pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service. This treatment will be repeated for each of the 30 unclassified program designed and built by the Skunk Works. Each program will form a chapter of at least two pages in length, with a maximum of 14 pages being allocated for programs that went into production and merit more detailed coverage, such as the P-80/F-94/T-33 family, C-130 family and, of course, the A-12 and SR-71.

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75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
This pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service.

This pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service. This treatment will be repeated for each of the 30 unclassified program designed and built by the Skunk Works. Each program will form a chapter of at least two pages in length, with a maximum of 14 pages being allocated for programs that went into production and merit more detailed coverage, such as the P-80/F-94/T-33 family, C-130 family and, of course, the A-12 and SR-71.

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75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works

75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works

by James C. Goodall
75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works

75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works

by James C. Goodall

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Overview

This pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service.

This pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service. This treatment will be repeated for each of the 30 unclassified program designed and built by the Skunk Works. Each program will form a chapter of at least two pages in length, with a maximum of 14 pages being allocated for programs that went into production and merit more detailed coverage, such as the P-80/F-94/T-33 family, C-130 family and, of course, the A-12 and SR-71.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472846471
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 06/01/2021
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 915,593
Product dimensions: 9.60(w) x 11.80(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

James C. Goodall is a published author with 24 books in print, and with book No 25 (a pictorial history of the Seawolf/Virginia class nuclear submarines) in the final stages of going to press. He is a recognised expert on low-observable aircraft such as the F-117, B-2A, the Lockheed 'twins' (F-22 and F-35), and the Lockheed Skunk Works family of Blackbirds. Photographing and writing about 'spooky aircraft' for the last 35 years, he is also an acknowledged expert on Area 51 as it pertains to flight-testing classified aircraft in a remote location. His very first book, co-authored with Bill Sweetman, was the first volume in print on the F-117, and it sold more than 60,000 copies. James's seven previous books with SquadronSignal have sold a minimum of 3500 copies to a maximum of 17,000 copies. Even the $100 US Blackbird Flight Manual that was published by Motorbooks in 1990 sold 1,500 copies in 15 months. His Blackbird pictorial from Schiffer (published in May 2018) is considered by many in the 'Spooky aircraft' world to be the most complete pictorial ever assembled on the subject. The new Vice President and General Manager of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Jeff Babione, described it as 'Spectacular'.

Table of Contents

XP-80 - Shooting Star - 1944
XF-90 - Starfighter - 1949
X-7A - Ramjet Test Bed - 1951
YC-130 - Hercules - 1954
XVF - Salmon - 1954
U-2A-F - Dragon Lady - 1955
CL-400 Suntan n- 1956
XF-104 - Starfighter - 1956
Jet Star - L-329 - 1957
Lockheed's SST - L-2000 - 1960
A-12 - Oxcart - 1962
XV-4 - Hummingbird - 1962
YF-12A - Kindle - 1963
SR-71A - Senior Crown - 1964
D-21 - Tagboard/Senior Bowl - 1964
X-26 - Frigate - 1967
AH-56A Cheyenne - 1967
YO-3A - Quiet Star - 1969
X-27 - Lancer - 1970
X-24C - L-301 - 1977
Senior Prom - 1977 (Due to security concerns this programme may have to be removed if we want Lockheed Martin to promote the book)
XST - Have Blue - 1977
Senior Peg - B-2 Comp - 1978
F-117A - Senior Trend - 1981
Sea Shadow - IX-529 - 1985
X-35 JST - 1989
X-33 - Venturestar - 1990
YF-22 - ATF - 1990
RQ-3 - Dark Star - 1996
X-44A - MANTA - 2001
Desert Hawk - 2003
P-175 - Pole Cat - 2005
Cormorant - 2006
P-791 - 2006
RQ-170 - Sentinel - 2007 (Due to security concerns this programme may have to be removed if we want Lockheed Martin to promote the book)
X-55 - ACCA - 2009
HTV-2 - 2010
X-56A - 2013
Navy UCLASS - 2013
SR-72 - 2030

NUMBER OF COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS: Minimal
NUMBER OF B/W PHOTOS: 150
NUMBER OF COLOUR PHOTOS: 1,000
NUMBER B/W ILLUSTRATIONS: 50

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