Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, highly classified research and …

Witness how Skunk Works propelled aerospace engineering forward, including developing the U.S.'s first fighter jet, shaping the course of aviation history.

Discover the legendary Skunk Works division, founded in 1943, renowned for pioneering innovations in aerospace, including America's first iconic jet fighter.

Witness how Skunk Works propelled the aerospace industry forward, including developing the U.S.'s first fighter jet, shaping the course of aviation history.

A skunkworks project is a project developed by a relatively small and loosely structured group of people, generally within a larger organization such as a corporation, who research and develop a project, often with a very large degree of autonomy, primarily for the sake of radical innovation. [1][2] The term originated with Lockheed 's World War...

Sep 6, 2021 · Skunk Works has just completed a 215,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility that can crank out aircraft for the U.S. and its allies as they look to future conflicts. The new...

Jan 12, 2024 · Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT) rolled out the X-59, a unique experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in Palmdale, California. The ceremony marked a...

The Skunk Works foresaw requirements for research aircraft to explore spaceplane technologies and define their operational systems.

Mar 20, 2024 · Lockheed Martin has a famous product development shop in Palmdale, California, known as Skunk Works. From Skunk Works has come at least the XP-80 early jet fighter, U-2 and SR-71 spy planes, the F-117A Nighthawk, the F-22 Raptor, the F-35 Lightning II, and multiple stealthy uncrewed aircraft.

Nov 4, 2005 · The term “Skunk Works” is synonymous with the research and development department of the Lockheed Martin Co. But where did the term come from? And what does a non-flying woodland creature have to do with aviation?