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 the airplane, they needed a large secure site. That was where I ran into John Gardner. I later discovered that John was Kelly's thermodynamics and heat transfer expert. Very few Hamilton Standard personnel were cleared for the program, and those were sworn to absolute secrecy...
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ISBN | 9781412063814 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Trafford Pub |
Jahr | 200510 |
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