But he was also self-aggrandizing and, at times, embittered and reckless. He had spent two decades at the aerospace and defense contractor Northrop (now Northrop Grumman) where he was instrumental in ...
“But in 1975, the nuclear triad needed an update,” Eastwood wrote. “Yes, the Air Force had B-52 bombers, but war planners wondered if they could get a jet that could fly faster and lower and ...