Name: Seventy Years and Still Counting
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Author: Thibert, Paul
ISBN: 9781412063814

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Physical Book

Author

Paul Thibert

Publisher

Trafford Publishing

Language

English

Pages

214

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.2 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9781412063814

Synopsis "Seventy Years and Still Counting"

Such was life at The Ranch. It was situated on Groom Lake, nearly 100 miles northwest of "Lost Wages," Nevada. In the early sixties I arrived there as Hamilton Standard's engineering representative, covering our products on the top-secret plane, the A-12. The plane was designed, built and concealed by Kelly Johnson and his team of top aerospace engineers at a facility inside Lockheed. Kelly named the building, the "Skunk Works." To test fly the airplane, they needed a large secure site. That was where I ran into John Gardner. I later discovered that John was Kelly's thermodynamics and heat transfer expert. Very few Hamilton Standard personnel were cleared for the program, and those were sworn to absolute secrecy...

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