In the early 1940s, Lockheed engineers designed what could have been the world’s first operational jet fighter—the L-133 Starjet. With an advanced axial-flow jet engine, swept-wing design, and a speed ...
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 ...