Kelly Johnson is spinning in his grave. The Skunk Works is just a name and memory these days.
I doubt that today’s Lockheed would hire Kelly Johnson or any of the Skunk Works engineers. They’d never get past the mega coporate H.R. dept.
The real story of how he assembled that world class unit must be a helluva story. Somehow I don’t think the classified ads entered the picture.
Nor job fairs.
Not only were the designs amazing but the speed of delivering working prototypes and inventing the necessary
exotic tooling... And no modern computers.
A vanished breed.