WaltBJ wrote:

If you want a new airplane fast you find another Kelly Johnson and
give him the keys and the money and leave him alone.
(P80/F104/U2/A11/SR71) Nowadays there's too many cooks and too many
beancounters and too many can'tc--ts, as Hack would say. Where's
Kelly's DNA?
Walt BJ

For further on this, read Ben Rich's (memory failing here) "Skunk
Works". It talks about all the levels of red tape added during the
F-117 project compared to the SR-71.

MAH