Skunk Works: Signed By Ben R Rich

Published by Little Brown, USA. Date: 1994. 1st edition. Original cloth gilt. Dustwrapper. Size: 16.2cm x 24.1cm. pp. 370. Ben R Rich was the second director of Lockheed’s ‘Skunk Works’ and led the development of the F-117, the first production stealth aircraft. He also worked on the F-104, U-2, A-12, the SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ and F-22 and has become known as the ‘Father of Stealth’. This autobiography was published a year before his death in 1995. This copy is inscribed to the title page: ‘To: Alan Bowlas, Ben R. Rich, Sept 8, 94, Farnborough ’94’. Binding nice and tight. Pages nice and clean. A very near fine, tight, clean copy in fine, bright, clean dustwrapper. Copies signed by Rich are very scarce.