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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos is $2.99 at Kindle US as part of today's Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. I remember reading this as a young engineer and finding it both exciting (for what they did) and frustrating (because I was working at that time on a program mired in bureaucracy). Anyway, great book, and having now remembered it, I'm going to have to find time to re-read it...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A2DIW3C
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00A2DIW3C
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/skunk-works

Spoiler:

This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review).

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned. Filled with telling personal anecdotes and high adventure, with narratives from the CIA and from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the twentieth century.

"Thoroughly engrossing." --Los Angeles Times Book Review