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From: rteasdal@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Falconer)
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Subject: Kelly Johnson lecture text?
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Date: 6 Apr 91 22:59:03 GMT
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From: rteasdal@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Falconer)


	A couple of months ago, in the course of a discussion of the
F-111, someone (Henry Spencer?) alluded to the book "Illusions of Choice:
The F-111 and the Problem of Weapons Acquisition Reform". I proceeded to
read it at my first opportunity, and was interested to find footnotes
referencing a lecture by the late Kelly Johnson to (I think) the Military
Industrial Designers' Society back in the early seventies, titled
"Prerequisites for a Successful Skunkworks". 

	I have tried with no success to locate a copy thereof; does
anyone know if it is in print, or in any professional journals? If
nothing else, perhaps fragments of it may be quoted in the upcoming
biography of Johnson (Knopf? not sure). Hope the author does Kelly and   
his creations due justice!

-- 
Russ Teasdale -- rteasdal@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU  --  (Falconer)