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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Allan Wells, Kelly Johnson, Vladimir Shukhov, Fred Ascani, Bradford Parkinson, Robert Michael White, List of systems engineers, Samuel C. Phillips, Judith Resnik, Marc Garneau, Simon Ramo, Robert E. Machol, Donald Firesmith, Linda Garcia Cubero, Kathryn P. Hire, Rudolf E. Kalman, Harold Chestnut, Robert Seamans, Michael E. Fossum, Michael Grimes, John N. Warfield, Harry H. Goode, Shafkat Chowdhury, Harrison Wadsworth, Jr., Mihajlo D. Mesarovic, Ave Kludze, John R. Clymer, John Muratore, Kirk Paul Lafler, Julie Anne Peters, Milton Rubin, Genrich Altshuller, Paul Thelen, James Godwin, Donald A. Coggan, Sakari Pinomaki, John J. Garstka, Derek Hitchins, Peter Checkland, Darnell Wilson, Eberhardt Rechtin, A. Wayne Wymore, Gwilym Jenkins, Richard J. Mayer, Arnold Tustin, Arthur W Graham III, T. Jack Lee, Margie Pierce, Missy Cummings, Tom Gilb, Andrew Mishkin. Excerpt: Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910 - December 21, 1990) was an aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator. As a member and first team leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works, Johnson worked for more than four decades and is said to have been an "organizing genius." He played a leading role in the design of over forty aircraft, including several that were honored with the prestigious Collier Trophy, acquiring a reputation as one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design engineers in the history of aviation. In 2003, as part of its commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight, Aviation Week & Space Technology ranked Johnson 8th on its list of the top 100 "most important, most interesting, and most influential people" in the first century of aerospace. Hall Hibbard, Kelly's Lockheed boss, once remarked to Ben Rich: "That damned Swede can actually see air." Kelly Johnson and Gary Powers in front of a U-2Kelly Johns...
