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Benjamin Robert "Ben" Rich (June 18, 1925 – January 5, 1995) was the second Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, succeeding its founder, Kelly Johnson. Regarded as the "father of stealth," Rich was responsible for leading the development of the F-117, the first production stealth aircraft. He also worked on the F-104, U-2, A-12, SR-71, and F-22, among others. He is the author of Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed.
Rich was born in Manila in the Philippines, one of the five children of British lumber mill superintendent Isidore Rich and his French wife, Annie, the daughter of one of his paternal grandfather's Jewish customers who resided in Alexandria, Egypt. The Rich family was one of the first Jewish families to settle in Manila. Having fled the Philippines just weeks before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they moved to the United States in 1942, where Rich became a naturalized US citizen. He worked (with his father) in a Los Angeles, California machine shop during World War II, and studied at the city's Hamilton High School. After the war he started his college education when he was 21, majoring in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, followed by a master's degree in aeronautical engineering at UCLA, instead of in the medical field as he originally planned.
Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, and the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. Currently its main project is the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, which will be used in the air forces of several countries. Production is expected to last for up to four decades. The name "Skunk Works" was taken from the moonshine factory in the comic strip Li'l Abner.
The designation "skunk works" or "skunkworks" is widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects.
There are conflicting observations about the birth of Skunk Works.
Ben Rich and "Kelly" Johnson set the origin as June 1943 in Burbank, California; they relate essentially the same chronology in their autobiographies. Theirs is the official Lockheed Skunk Works story:
Rich may refer:
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, DC, area. Lockheed Martin employs 116,000 people worldwide. Marillyn Hewson is the current President and Chief Executive Officer.
Lockheed Martin stands as one of the world's premier companies in the aerospace, defense, security, and technologies industry; it is the world's largest defense contractor based on revenue for fiscal year 2014. In 2013, 78% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales; it topped the list of US federal government contractors and received nearly 10% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon. In 2009 US government contracts accounted for $38.4 billion (85%), foreign government contracts $5.8 billion (13%), and commercial and other contracts for $900 million (2%).
Lockheed (originally spelled Loughead) may refer to:
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60 Minutes feature on author and aeronautical designer and engineer Ben Rich with Ed Bradley. Rich talks about his work in designing the F-117 Stealth Fighter and other spy plane projects while Director of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. Aired on CBS in 1994.
odd, but immagination provoking. I didn't do the muzak, please don't hate on me over it. So a question burns in the back of the mind: what do we have? Click below for a FREE download of a colorfully illustrated 132 page e-book on the Zionist-engineered INTENTIONAL destruction of Western civilization. Click on . Ben Rich, the Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber and former head of Lockheed Skunk Works,had once let out information about Extraterrestrial UFO Visitors . odd, but immagination provoking. I didn't do the muzak, please don't hate on me over it. So a question burns in the back of the mind: what do we have?
Don Phillips, Contractor, USAF, CIA, Lockheed Skunkworks. For more information, visit http://www.SiriusDisclosure.com. Subscribe at http://www.youtube.com/sdisclosure. Don Phillips was in the Air Force at Las Vegas Air Force Base during an event when UFOs were seen moving at enormous speeds near Mt. Charleston, northwest of Las Vegas. In addition, he worked with Kelly Johnson at the Lockheed Skunkworks -- on design and construction of the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird. He testifies that we not only have these extraterrestrial devices, but have also achieved tremendous technological advances from their study. He states that in the 1950's and 1960's, NATO did research into the origin of ET races, and disseminated reports to the leaders of various countries. He lists a few of the technologies we...
MUFON International Director Jan Harzan talks to me about his personal experience with fellow alumnus Ben Rich, former President and CEO of the Lockheed Skunkworks. "We now have the technology to take ET home." This a must see for anyone who doesn't think faster-than-light travel is possible, or harbors any doubt that we don't already know how to do it. Of course, for Mr. Shermer and the other paid, propaganda ministers at "Skeptic" Magazine, it IS just a story...right?
http://facelikethesun.com In this video, I take a look at some interesting admissions by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, actually having no limit to their budget to create advanced propulsion vehicles. It starts with some interesting quotes by Ben Rich, former lead of Lockheed Skunk Works from 1975-1991. LINKS Lockheed Skunk Works http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/aeronautics/skunkworks.html Skunk Works Magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmeQ0T4VyeU Open Mind Production Interview with Jan Harzan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX7q--QLz1k Yahoo Article on UFO Sighting in AZ https://www.yahoo.com/travel/searching-for-ufos-in-the-arizona-desert-110848206262.html Gonz Shimura Lecture: Secret Weapons of Antichrist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIaC06BnTe8 Secret Space Program with Gon...
Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzwOFCSFms4 "We now know how to travel to the stars. The Air Force has just given us a contract to take ET back home." - Ben Rich, former Head of Lockheed Skunkworks. As a Senior Research Engineer Boyd Bushman worked for Lockheed Martin, Texas Instruments and Hughes Aircraft. He is regarded as one of the inventors of the Stinger missile and he speaks on Camera about Area 51 and advanced propulsion systems being tested there.
odd, but immagination provoking. I didn't do the muzak, please don't hate on me over it. So a question burns in the back of the mind: "what do we have"?
Ben Rich of Lockheed Skunkworks Famous UFO Quotes Purchase "Skunkworks" by Ben Rich here - http://amzn.to/22WqCSS Articles http://www.openminds.tv/lockheed-skunk-works-director-says-esp-is-the-key-to-interstellar-travel-video-1092/23042 https://xenophilius.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/ben-rich-lockheed-ceo-admits-on-deathbed-et-ufo-are-real/ http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?86211-Of-great-importance-Dave-Hodges-revelations-about-the-Secret-Space-Program/page2 http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread965970/pg1
A Conversation About Ben Rich, Former Director of Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks, with Mark McCandlish SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & COMMENT: After you subscribe, go to “Manage subscriptions” (bottom of left sidebar), then check the box, “Send me updates” so that you’ll be notified when new videos are posted. McCandlish returns as our guest on FarOutRadio this program. Mark is a talented technical illustrator whose specialty is in aviation and conceptual art within the defense and aerospace industries. He is a secret space program expert. Topic: We spent some time talking about the intriguing statements from Ben Rich, the former chief of Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works where ultra top secret air and space craft were designed and developed. Rich was a serious man, so what are we to make of his stateme...
"This here's a re-search laboratory. Re-search means look again, don't it? Means they're looking for something they found once and it got away somehow, and now they got to re-search for it? How come they got to build a building like this, with mayonnaise elevators and all, and fill it with all these crazy people? What is it they're trying to find again? Who lost what? Yes, yes!"
It was announced at the recent 2013 Mufon Symposium that Jan Harzan will become the new executive director of MUFON, taking over for Dave MacDonald. While Dave has spent the last year working on International relations for MUFON with much success, his position was meant to be interim and on August 1st Jan will replace Dave. Open Minds wanted to give you a little background on who Jan is and why he has been chosen as the new executive director. For Jan this all started with a sighting he had at the age of 9... Read more at: http://www.openminds.tv Find out more about MUFON at: http://www.MUFON.com Follow Open Minds on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/openmindstv Like Open Minds on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/om.ufomagazine
Certainly Bob Lazar and alien spaceship reverse engineering go together well in terms of conspiracy theories however, given the information to support his employment at the US base some parts of his claims indeed stack up But now in latest development as we discover, in down below interview Bob Lazar claims get validated by Senior Scientist for Lockheed Martin Boyd Bushman! "We now know how to travel to the stars. The Air Force has just given us a contract to take ET back home." - Ben Rich, former Head of Lockheed Skunkworks. As a Senior Research Scientist at Lockheed Martin - Boyd Bushman reveals that Defense Contractor - Lockheed Martin has researched antigravity technology, specifically gravity manipulation by means of magnetic fields, and he shows that he experimented at Lockheed M...
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"Eric Walker had an incredible, unbelievable background of military and connections with Presidents and stuff like this. So when we go to him, we’re interviewing him as UFO researchers. We’re not thinking about the mind and consciousness; we couldn’t care less about that, no connection whatsoever. We’re talking to him and we’re trying to find out about this supposed UFO group that runs the whole thing, the MJ-12. We’re asking him questions about MJ-12. “Did you have contact with the aliens? How did the thing operate? How did you cover-up the UFO thing?” And suddenly in the middle of one of these interviews in 1990 he suddenly cuts off the conversation talking about hardware, about bodies and all this, and he suddenly says, “How good is your sixth sense? How much do you know about ESP?” And...
Andrew Johnson from Check The Evidence.com joins me to discuss some very interesting topics: UFO's, suppressed technologies and the breakaway civilization. At Wright-Patterson AFB in 1993, Ben Rich the former head of Lockheed Skunkworks admitted "We already have the means to travel among the stars... anything you can imagine we can already know how to do." Ben Rich also admitted, "We have things in the Nevada desert that are alien to your way of thinking, far beyond anything you see on Star Trek." Astronauts Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper have also been candid about the existence of UFO's and have called for the end of the government coverup surrounding the subject. What does Space Shuttle mission 75 and the "Tether incident" tell us about NASA and its willingness to explain away e...
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What impact will storms have on the Christmas getaway in the UK and across the world? Storm Barbara is approaching the UK, Tropical Cyclone Yvette is currently affecting parts of Australia and Tropical Storm Nock Ten is heading towards Philippines. Ben Rich and Helen Willetts were taking your Christmas weather questions.