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 an official alias for Lockheed Martin ’ s Advanced Development Programs ( ADP ), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects.

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.

Bishop's influence over Lowell can be seen at work in at least two of Lowell's poems: " The Scream " ( inspired by Bishop's short story " In the Village ") and " Skunk Hour " ( inspired by Bishop's poem " The Armadillo ").

2008's Silent Cry also made the top 10 but had a short chart life and became their smallest selling album, a decline which then continued with 2010's Renegades, which missed the top 10 but is still seen as an album that brought the band back to their roots and sees Karl Brazil on drums after Mark Richardson returned to Skunk Anansie.

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.

After a series of successful test flights beginning in 1977, the Air force awarded Skunk Works the contract to build the F-117 stealth fighter on November 1, 1978.

During the entirety of the Cold War, the Skunk Works was located in Burbank, California on the eastern side of Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport ().

They have filed several challenges against registrants of domain names containing variations on the term under anti-cybersquatting policies, and have lost a case under the. uk domain name dispute resolution service against a company selling cannabis seeds and paraphernalia, which used the word " skunkworks " in its domain name ( referring to " Skunk ", a variety of the cannabis plant ).

* Skunk Works Magic Popular Mechanics article on Skunk Works

A Hooded Skunk Skeleton on Display at The Museum of Osteology

* 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.

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.

Airing in fall 2012, Skunk Ape, starring Dave will premiere on the travel channel.

: The True Story of Apes in America ( NY: Paraview Pocket-Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-6975-5 ), which contains primary historical material on Apes, Skunk Apes, and the Myakka photographs.

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

Franklin's other friends that appear most often on the series are Beaver, Rabbit, Fox, Goose and Skunk.

JBL ’ s Peter Chaikin interviewed CJ Vanston about his collaboration with Jeff Baxter on their forthcoming album, “ Skunk .”

Steely Dan was still considered a true “ group ” at the time this, their third album, was released ; in addition to core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, guitarists Jeff “ Skunk ” Baxter and Denny Dias and drummer Jim Hodder ( as well as multi-instrumentalist Victor Feldman ) had appeared on both previous Steely Dan releases along with a host of session aces ; all five appeared on the inside cover of the album, though Hodder was replaced on drums by Jim Gordon and Jeff Porcaro for the recordings ( Hodder did, however, contribute backing vocals to " Parker's Band ").

* Kevin Shields – Skunk guitar on track 7

* Jeff " Skunk " Baxter-guitar, pedal steel guitar, spoken word on " Only a Fool Would Say That "

As a keyboardist, Ted has recorded and performed with Michael Powers, Albert King, Wilson Pickett, Ben E King, Dr. John, Johnny Winter, Rick Derringer, Gordon Waller ( Peter and Gordon ), Paul Jones, Odetta, Bill Chinook, Ray Draper, Gary Stewart, and Loudon Wainwright III ( Ted played piano on Dead Skunk ).

After starting 2009 with two warm-up shows for their tour of Japan in Scarborough and Crewe, the band later on in May announced that Feeder " ended their partnership " with drummer Mark Richardson, before returning to his original band Skunk Anansie.

on which he played a character named " Skunk ".