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A skunkworks project is a project developed by a relatively small and loosely structured group of people who research and develop a project primarily for the sake of radical innovation. The term originated with Lockheed's World War II Skunk Works project. The original Lockheed Advanced Development Projects Division was set up during WWII in a circus tent adjacent to a foul smelling plastics factory. Irv Culver, a Lockheed engineer referred to the facility as "Skonk Works".

The term "Skunk Works" came from Al Capp's hillbilly comic strip Li’l Abner, which was popular in the 1940s and '50s. The “Skonk Works" was a dilapidated factory located on the remote outskirts of Dogpatch, in the backwoods of Kentucky. According to the strip, scores of locals were done in yearly by the toxic fumes of the concentrated "skonk oil", which was brewed and barreled daily by "Big Barnsmell" (known as the lonely "inside man" at the Skonk Works), by grinding dead skunks and worn shoes into a smoldering still, for some mysterious, unspecified purpose.

Some notable skunkworks were the aforementioned Lockheed Skunk Works led by Kelly Johnson which developed the P-80, the first U.S. jet fighter plane, the U-2 and A-12 (The Blackbird) spy planes, Google X Lab, Microsoft Research, special teams at Boeing, and the lab of about 50 people established by Steve Jobs to develop the Macintosh computer, located behind the Good Earth Restaurant in Cupertino.

Before retirement, I had the pleasure of leading a Skunkworks team at a top Fortune 500 company in the late '80s and early '90s developing computer based learning systems which utilized digital video and satellite delivery of lessons. A Skunkworks project is an exciting, fun, labor of love that can produce some very radical stuff. I hope you enjoy this little site.

OBTW Here's a little code for you cypher freaks. If you crack it, you'll know how to contact our Skunkworks Project.

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