Lockheed Martin

7572.463 - 7595.963 David Rosenthal

What is relevant, though, post-Cold War, politics become a huge thing here. So once Johnson says this... Nobody is willing to contradict the president. So Skunk Works has to go and like redo all of their documentation for the whole damn thing. You can imagine Kelly Johnson's reaction to this. Yeah. So the first official flight of the Blackbird happens on December 22nd, 1964.