Skunk Works

In my early 20s, I remember thinking very vividly that I was born in the wrong era.

And what I would have done and killed for to be born in the 60s and be part of the space race and that whole wave of engineering, or to be around Skunk Works, that would have been amazing.

And then I was born in this era, and in 2012, 2016, at least in the UK, engineering was slow.

It was stodgy.

We talked about the customer circle.

Let's talk about the internal team circle.

I believe what I read online was it's Skunk Works philosophy, which ties back to what you just mentioned there.

Talk to us about what that means for those who haven't read the book or familiar with Skunk Works.

So that was phenomenal.

He's like a legend out of Skunk Works.

You know, he's the guy who, you know, if you're talking about the F-22 in front of Congress, like he's the guy there.

And so he had a lot of good insights, got us super excited about the space.

Oreo Blizzard says, companies and people that have hit evidence on UFOs should testify, presumably before Congress, as you have done previously.

Pardon them or should they face fines? Do you agree? What about the testimony? That seems to be the rub right now is being able to get this information from Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin, other companies that have this information.

We know they haven't.

Should they be called before Congress? Testify? and penalize if they don't? Where are you at on that?

They went back and forth.

That was part of the negotiations went on for a long time.

They went to see him at Skunk Works.

He came to Las Vegas.

But, Randy, you just reminded me that I've got to go back and get that back online.

Yeah, find out about how many things Lockheed Skunk Works is flying in my neighborhood.

So there you go.

Okay, let's see.

I mean, you know, there was just, there was so much.

I can't, I mean, I have, you know, I was around people that, you know, worked at laser labs at Wright Patterson that, you know, moved into Lockheed Martin and worked at Skunk Works.

And I mean, I was just, I think, I think I went from there and I was just always comfortable in that German knowledge, German engineers.

So when I started reading Joseph Farrell, I'm like, well, yeah, of course this is,

And Lockheed was, however, was not designed for developing risky new technologies in very quick amount of time, operating in environments that they had not been perfecting, you know, through their civilian commercial aviation profile.

Well, this led to the Skunk Works.

Probably everyone knows that.

This is where the U-2 and the SR-71 were developed.

But in the Skunk Works, which was a part of the organization, they had a completely separate operating model of of how to work on a day-to-day basis in terms of relationships.

It was a completely different business model, more like this shared consciousness, shared decision-making, minimize bureaucratic constraints that were designed for the original commercial aircraft, routinization and safety, which were the primary concern building reliable aircraft.

So they built these, they built this skunk works thing.

The U S army built, had the same kind of situation.

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