Powers claimed, it is recounted in " The Skunk Works ", that upon ejecting he saw the parachute of another pilot deploy behind him.

The acronym was coined by Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works ( creators of the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes, among many others ).

For example, during the development of the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, Lockheed engineers at the " Skunk Works " under Clarence " Kelly " Johnson used unobtainium as a dysphemism for titanium.

In the 1994 book Skunk Works, Ben Rich, the former head of Lockheed's Skunk Works division, wrote that the Aurora was the budgetary code name for the stealth bomber fly-off that resulted in the B-2 Spirit.

Starting with the P-80, Lockheed's secret development work was conducted by its Advanced Development Division, more commonly known as the Skunk Works.

The Skunk Works often created high quality designs in a short time and sometimes with limited resources.

* 1943: Lockheed's Skunk Works founded in Burbank, California.

* Skunk Works

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works: The Official History, Updated Edition.

They organized their own " Skunk Works " group, the Advanced Concepts Laboratory, and responded with a new aircraft design that incorporated more modern equipment than the Northrop contender, mainly fly-by-wire flight controls.

Entrance plaza at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, California

Skunk Works logo

Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor.

There are conflicting observations about the birth of Skunk Works.

Theirs is the official Lockheed Skunk Works story:

Two days later the go-ahead was given to Lockheed to start development and the Skunk Works was born, with Kelly Johnson at the helm .< p > The formal contract for the XP-80 did not arrive at Lockheed until October 16, 1943 ; some four months after work had already begun.

This would prove to be a common practice within the Skunk Works.

Many times a customer would come to the Skunk Works with a request and on a handshake the project would begin, no contracts in place, no official submittal process.

Kelly Johnson and his Skunk Works team designed and built the XP-80 in only 143 days, seven less than was required.

Warren M. Bodie, journalist, historian, and Skunk Works engineer from 1977 to 1984, wrote that engineering independence, elitism and secrecy of the Skunk Works variety was demonstrated earlier when Lockheed was asked by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey ( later Brigadier General, USAF ) to build for the United States Army Air Corps a high speed, high altitude fighter to compete with German aircraft.

The term " Skunk Works " is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin ; the company also holds several registrations of it with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

It is drained by the north fork of Skunk River, which crosses the southwest corner, and by English River and other streams.

It is revealed by Skunk ( Brian-Doyle Murray ) and Big Teddy ( Brion James ) that the shark-man is known as Chocki ( Russ Tamblyn ), who can be trouble because he can like one person one way, but then hate them in the other.

There are multiple washes and creeks that flow through the city as well, one of the most significant is the Skunk Creek due to its trails and connectivity with nearby Glendale.

USAF Plant 42, where the aforementioned aerospace projects occurred / occur is home to major operations of the following aerospace companies: Boeing, Lockheed Martin and its famed Skunk Works, and Northrop Grumman.

Fort Bragg is the western terminus of the California Western Railroad ( otherwise known locally as the " Skunk Train ", Steam passenger service was started in 1904, extended to the town of Willits in 1911, running through the Coast Redwood forests to the city of Willits, inland.

Brighton is located where Iowa State Road 78 and Iowa State Road 1 meet, and is located near the Skunk River and near Lake Darling State Park.

Skunk Works is an official trademark for the Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Programs ( formerly Lockheed Advanced Development Projects ).

* Mr. Skunk — A puppet skunk who is usually ashamed if he sprays his " skunk smell " on his friends by mistake.

: Skunk Works is a term used in engineering and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects.

As is evident and as critics such as Francisco Soto have pointed out, the " child narrator " in " Celestino ", Fortunato of " The Palace ...", Hector of " Farewell ..", and the triply named " Gabriel / Reinaldo / Gloomy Skunk " character in " Color " appear to live progressive stages of a continuous life story that is also linked to Arenas's own.

The Skunk Ape is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit the Southern United States, from places such as North Carolina and Arkansas, although reports from Florida are most common.

California Western 45 | California Western Railroad # 4 5 ( builder # 58045 of 1924 ), is a 2-8-2 " Mikado " loco locomotive still in use on the Skunk Train

It is featured in several stories, including one in which Skunk is taught by Franklin and Bear how to play.

Jeffrey Allen " Jeff Skunk " Baxter ( born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D. C .) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s.

The Skunk River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the state of Iowa in the United States.

In Keokuk County, it is joined by the North Skunk, which has its headwaters in Marshall County.

In January 2002, Jon Lee took his own life in his Miami home before former Skunk Anansie drummer Mark Richardson, began to record and play with the band before being made an official member.

* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )

In 1976 The Skunk Works began production on a pair of stealth technology demonstrators for the U. S. Air Force named Have Blue in Building 82 at Burbank.

Most of the old Skunk Works buildings in Burbank were demolished in the late 1990s to make room for parking lots.

Western Spotted Skunk also called a zorrillo, which means ' little fox ' in Spanish. Skunks are reluctant to use this weapon, as they carry just enough of the chemical for five or six uses – about 15 cc – and require some ten days to produce another supply.

Started in 1885 as a rail route for moving large logs to the mills, the Skunk Train now offers scenic tours through the redwoods.

The SR-71 was developed from the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in the 1960s for the Central Intelligence Agency by the Lockheed Skunk Works as a black project.

In 2008, the Israeli Defence Forces began using Skunk for crowd control.

After realizing their songs were too complex for other ABC artists, at Katz's suggestion they formed their own band with guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff " Skunk " Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer, and Katz signed the band to ABC as recording artists.

* 1958 Clarence " Kelly " Johnson of Lockheed Skunk Works, and Gerhard Neumann and Neil Burgess of GE, for leadership in the development of the F-104 Starfighter ( 1958 ) and its J79 engine.

* 1963 Clarence " Kelly " Johnson, for his leadership at Lockheed's Skunk Works in the development of the SR-71 Blackbird.

* 1989 Ben Rich for leading Lockheed's Skunk Works to develop the first stealth aircraft, the F-117.

The image of the Wraith from the Shangri-La album cover was used on a flight test patch for the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works ' Black Ops Desert Prowler program.

His novelette, " The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk ", was nominated for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.

This name was probably mistranslated ; one early settler wrote, " I was informed by Frank Labisner, United States interpreter for the Sac and Fox Indians, that the name of Skunk River was a wrong interpretation.

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