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There's nothing new in this - it has been done before. Want to build a Mach3 aircraft in the days when most people thought jets were pretty clever? Want to do
by excuse-me 15y ago
There's nothing new in this - it has been done before.
Want to build a Mach3 aircraft in the days when most people thought jets were pretty clever?
Want to do it in <2years using materials that had never been used in a plane before - and do it on budget.
And repeat the success with half a a dozen other projects.
And it's described in a book that everyone in technology (or management) should read http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003 http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/d...
- excuse-me 15y agore: the downvote. This wasn't an attack on space-X it was a celebration of them having continued the tradition of the frankly astonishing work that skunk works started. ps. it is a very good book