The number of people having any connection with the project must be restricted in an almost vicious manner. The stealth fighters composed only 2 percent of the total allied air assets in action and they flew 1,271 missions—only 1 percent of the total coalition air sorties—but accounted for 40 percent of all damaged targets attacked and compiled a 75 percent direct-hit rate. Makes you wonder what they're working on now that we might be able to read about in another 25 years or so.

Since its first appearance in the film’s second trailer, many have already noticed a close resemblance of the Darkstar with the concept images of the SR-72 hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft released by Lockheed Martin in 2013 (and even teased by the US Air Force last year), although the latter was unmanned (but hey, what can satisfy Maverick’s need for speed better than a hypersonic aircraft?

There was, for Lockheed, an incentive to build large numbers of Stealth bombers anyway, to encourage policies where the building of Stealth bombers can be seen as necessary. Here he tells of America's most secret and successful aerospace opeation, from the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter.

An artist rendering of a next-generation drone demonstrates an unmanned aircraft teaming with an F-35.Fellow employees quickly adopted the name for their mysterious division of Lockheed and eventually "Skonk Works" became "Skunk Works. I had actually given notice to Lockheed, but at the last moment changed my mind: I loved building airplanes a lot more than baking bagels or curing corned beef. Com ótimos detalhes sobre de onde vieram os planos, como as máquinas se comportavam, situações de testes e performance e muitas histórias interessantes.