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For anyone who's interested in this stuff, I highly recommend the book "Skunk Works" – about Lockheed's famous operation that designed the SR-71, U-2, F-117 (st
by kevincennis 9y ago
For anyone who's interested in this stuff, I highly recommend the book "Skunk Works" – about Lockheed's famous operation that designed the SR-71, U-2, F-117 (stealth fighter), etc.
- regulation_d 9y agoI really wish I could get ahold of Brian Shul's Sled Driver.
- jfoutz 9y agoYes. it's also interesting that it's from the point of view of a guy who worked on something like 17 planes over the course of their career. I think that's very rare now.
- nether 9y agoIt's possible with job hopping, or program hopping within the same company. You just won't be working on that aircraft start to finish. I worked on 7 aircraft from 2005-2015.
- lentil 9y agoAgreed. I would also recommend this conference talk on the subject by Nickolas Means, it was very well done: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLBzScQzZ83I81fnpqX2AkYD5c5cKgrqc2&v=pL3Yzjk5R4M https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLBzScQzZ83I81fnpqX2AkYD5c5...
- josephcooney 9y agoI also really enjoyed this book, and wrote up some notes on what I took away from it that I thought could apply to software engineering https://jcooney.net/post/2017/08/03/skunkworks.html https://jcooney.net/post/2017/08/03/skunkworks.html