If financial analysis was football, Charles Ortel would be Bear Bryant.
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The Highwaymen are sure as hell Anons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkcAH-m9W0
We are all Highwaymen. That's why the evil is gonna LOSE. There'll always be more of us.
The Blackbird was the most beautiful aircraft ever created. Thanks for posting. My late father bumped into Kelly Johnson a time or two at work.
Miss you so much, Dad. Godspeed.
Heh, no, it'd be different and better than that. They've had stuff out there in the desert for decades that's better.
Ben Rich had a great deal to say about what's possible and what's been done. ("Skunk Works", his memoirs, is a great book)
Read: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/58593.Ben_R_Rich
One of the sources is aerospace journalist, James Goodall, who wrote for publications such as Jane’s Defense Weekly, Aviation Week and Space Technology, and Interavia. He is an accomplished speaker specializing in the history, development, and operations of the world’s only Mach 3 capable, manned air breathing aircraft, the SR-71 family of aircraft. (1) (source)(source)(source)
He is also an author, as well as the Associate Curator at the Pacific Aviation Meseum, HI. He was also the restoration manager at the Museum of Flight in Paine Field, Everett, WA.
Goodall interviewed many from the classified black budget world (read more about that world here.) He claimed that some of his contacts told him that “we have things out there that are literally out of this world, better than Star Trek or what you see in the movies.” (1)
From his work alone, James Goodall knew Ben Rich well. In a video interview, Goodall stated that he spoke to Rich approximately 10 days before he died:
“About ten days before he died, I was speaking to Ben on the telephone at the USC Medical Center in LA. And he said, ‘Jim, we have things out in the desert that are fifty years beyond what you can comprehend. They have about forty five hundred people at the Lockheed Skunk works. What have they been doing for the last eighteen or twenty years? They’re building something.'” (1)
Another source comes from John Andrews, who was a legendary Lockheed engineer. He had written to Rich, stating his own belief in UFOs, both manmade and extraterrestrial. Andrews has asked Rich if his own beliefs covered extraterrestrial as well as manmade UFOs. Rich’s reply was as follows:
“Yes, I’m a believer in both categories. I feel everything is possible. Many of our man-made UFOs are Un-Funded Opportunities. There are two types of UFOs, the ones we build, and the ones they build.” (1)