75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works

This pictorial journey takes the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works'' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follows the programme through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service.

The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works was founded in the summer of 1943 to develop a jet-powered high-altitude interceptor for the USAAF, and ever since it h...