The Lockheed L-133 Starjet was a prime example of a paradoxical “successful failure.” As I asserted in a recent article for The National Interest, of all the great geniuses in the history of military ...

Burcham, as copilot. Joining them was Lockheed's chief research engineer and the Constellation’s designer, Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson, along with Johnson's assistant, Rudy Thoren ...