You'd think with all the brand names Ern used he'd have given that one a cool name.
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You'd think with all the brand names Ern used he'd have given that one a cool name.
Wow that is awesome! Maybe its from ERNs skunk works? ;) looks very 60's to me (coming from someone born decades after that)
Just a loose reference to 'Skunkworks' projects, no inside ERN knowledge here ;) - "A skunkworks project is one typically developed by a small and loosely structured group of people who research and develop a project primarily for the sake of radical innovation" - thanks Wikipedia!
Res! Rastro Rooove Reorge!
I believe that the term "Skunkworks" was first used for P. Kelly's shop at Lockheed - that developed the U2 and then the SR-71 shortly after that (they keep that secret longer) this was in the 50's for the U2 and the late 50s and early 60s for the SR-71 "Blackbird"...which was way way ahead of its time, I believe that most of its "published" records still stand. The same team that developed the F117 and probably a lot of things we don't want to know....and they used slide rules....