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DaveF · 02-10-2008, 02:20 PM

I finished Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed last week. This is a superb book for anyone interested in engineering, aerospace, or american history. For me, it was amazing, and simultaneously disheartening, learning how far advanced the SR-71 Blackbird was, but also how anomolous it was. That such a plane is not a normal progression in our nation's aerospace progression, but was a unique invention, perhaps never to be repeated. And now decommissioned, tooling scrapped, never to be made again.

Now, onto Built to Last.

02-10-2008, 02:20 PM	#31 of 101
DaveF Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Local Time: 09:46 AM Local Date: 09-05-2008 Posts: 4,866	Re: Books you've read in 2008 I finished Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed last week. This is a superb book for anyone interested in engineering, aerospace, or american history. For me, it was amazing, and simultaneously disheartening, learning how far advanced the SR-71 Blackbird was, but also how anomolous it was. That such a plane is not a normal progression in our nation's aerospace progression, but was a unique invention, perhaps never to be repeated. And now decommissioned, tooling scrapped, never to be made again. Now, onto Built to Last.