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==== Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (1910–1990) ==== Chief aircraft designer, Lockheed Skunk Works; designer of the U-2 (delivered in 8 months from contract signing), A-12 OXCART, SR-71 Blackbird, and F-117 (conceptually); creator of the Skunk Works management model; two-time winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; the most consequential aerospace engineer in Area 51's history; his philosophy of small autonomous teams with minimal bureaucracy defined how every major Groom Lake program was managed.
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