My Dad was at the Skunk Works at lot in the Mid Sixties as a Logistics officer in the Air Force. It’s the reason my twin brother and I were born in California.
He still has a photo of an SR-71 autographed to him by C.L. “Kelly” Johnson...
Didn’t realize how important the signature was until my brother explained who he was.
After my son and I took an aerospace tour of southern California a couple years ago, I read “Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed” by Ben Rich, the successor of Kelly Johnson at the Skunk Works. Kelly Johnson was an amazing man.