SKUNK WORKS MAGIC.

From: Popular Mechanics | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: WILSON, JIM | Copyright information

How a handful of men broke the rules and created the world's most amazing high-tech weaponry.

The generals had botched it. Years before Pearl Harbor they had sneered at German plans for a new type of high-speed aircraft engine. Now in 1943, as the Allies began preparing for the D-Day invasion of France, intelligence reports revealed that the Nazis were ramping up production of a blistering fast fighter, a plane powered by the very same type of propellerless "jet" engine ...

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