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Kelly Johnson designed the Blackbird, a airplane that flew non-stop from London to Los Angeles in under four hours, outracing the sun and getting four hours before it got removed, a remarkable feat - which was more than 35 years ago. Johnson was the ground breaking genius behind Lockheed's "Skunk Works", and performed a respected role in the development greater than forty aircraft, including some of America's most complex planes such as the Constellation, Shooting Celebrity, F-104, U-2, and the SR-71 Blackbird. In 2003, within its commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight, an Aviation Week & Space Technology poll positioned him eighth on its list of the "Top 100 Celebrities of Aerospace" in the first century of flight, just behind the Wright brothers, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Charles Lindbergh. The chief executive of Lockheed once said: "That damned Swede can actually see air." Award-winning author Daniel Alef explains to the remarkable tale of the person who garnered 35 major awards for his aviation feats, including the Medal of Freedom, and helped bring us to the border of space.
