Seventy Years and Still Counting
Thibert, Paul
Such was life at The Ranch. It was situated on Groom Lake, nearly 100 miles northwest of "Lost Wages, " Nevada. In the early sixties I arrived there as Hamilton Standard's engineering representative, covering our products on the top-secret plane, the A-12. The plane was designed, built and concealed by Kelly Johnson and his team of top aerospace engineers at a facility inside Lockheed. Kelly named the building, the "Skunk Works." To test fly t...