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“Skunk Works” is a reference to defense contractor Lockheed Martin’s ... the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane and the original stealth jet, the F-117 Nighthawk. By dubbing its own operation as a ...
In December 2014, NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to study the feasibility of building the SR-72's propulsion system using existing turbine engine technologies, The $892,292 (~$1.13 million in 2023) contract funded a design study to determine the viability of a TBCC propulsion system by combining one of several current turbine engines, with a very low Mach ignition Dual Mode Ramjet (DMRJ).
Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, highly classified research and development programs, and exotic aircraft platforms.
Former Skunk Works director Ben Rich confirmed that "Aurora" was simply a myth in Skunk Works (1994), a book detailing his days as the director. Rich wrote that a colonel working in the Pentagon arbitrarily assigned the name "Aurora" to the funding for the B-2 bomber design competition and somehow the name was leaked to the media.
NASA’s quiet and speedy experimental plane design is getting closer to takeoff. The X-59 aircraft recently underwent the installation of its tail assembly. Skunk Works Reveals Progress on NASA's ...
Alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione was flown back to the city from Pennsylvania in the department’s federally-funded spy plane. The $4 million plane, specifically designed to hunt for ...
The RQ-170 Sentinel was developed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works as a stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Journalists have noted design similarities between the RQ-170 and previous stealth and UAV programs such as the Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar and Polecat.
The US Navy has announced that fuel was extracted from a spy plane that crashed into an environmentally sensitive bay off the Hawaiian island of Oahu earlier this month.