Advanced Development Projects

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Advanced Development Projects

American technology group

Also known as: ADP, Skunk Works

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Lockheed Martin Corporation
Lockheed Corporation
…established a highly secret section, Advanced Development Projects (ADP), to design a fighter around a British De Havilland jet engine. The result was the P-80 Shooting Star, the first American jet aircraft to enter operational service (1945).
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…established a highly secret section, Advanced Development Projects (ADP), to design a fighter around a British De Havilland jet engine. The result was the P-80 Shooting Star, the first American jet aircraft to enter operational service (1945).
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