Ben Rich: Skunk Works

YEAGER

CRIME OF PASSION

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Copyright © 1994 by Ben R. Rich

Cover design by Tom Tafuri; photograph of F-117A courtesy of U.S. Air Force

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Dr. Ufimtsev came to teach electromagnetic theory at UCLA in 1990. Until his arrival here he had remained blissfully unaware of his enormous impact on America’s stealth airplane development, but clearly wasn’t surprised by the news. “Senior Soviet designers were absolutely uninterested in my theories,” he wryly observed.

General Bond was later killed in a test flight. Because of that tragedy the Pentagon ruled that general officers could no longer do flight tests.

Perry is now serving in the Clinton administration as the Secretary of Defense.

In 1960, Capp’s publisher objected to our use of Skonk Works, so we changed it to Skunk Works and registered the name and logo as trademarks. It is listed in the Random House Dictionary: “Often a secret experimental division, laboratory or project for producing innovative design or products in the computer or aerospace field.”