[WalterBright]

Reminds me of Lockheed's Skunkworks. I've heard lots of businessmen say they're going to recreate skunkworks, but with improvements.

The improvements, of course, make it not a skunkworks and these efforts never deliver skunkworks performance.

Could the government create a skunkworks? Not likely, because they fought against Kelly Johnson constantly over how he ran it.

I bet Paul Allen could have done it, because he had a track record of funding competent people and letting them do what they wanted.

[iscrewyou]

I’m in the midst of listening to the Skunk Works audiobook. And it’s fascinating. It had been on my list of things to read but I just couldn’t wait. I bit the bullet and bought the audiobook. It’s worth every penny.

[WalterBright]

That's a great read. There's also "Kelly":

https://www.amazon.com/Kelly-More-Than-Share-All/dp/08747449...

[Lutzb]

The book by Leo janos?

[iscrewyou]

Yes, him and Ben R. Rich.