Quote Originally Posted by HandofShadows View Post
That's the thing about this that people can't really grasp I think. This is the SKUNK WORKS. The place that created the SR-71, U-2, F-117, Flying Wings (B-1 Bomber). And they far more than plane designers. In order to build the aircraft they need to be experts in a lot of fields including materials technology and physics. You hit it right on the head. They are not "any other tech-like company".
That was the skunk works, but worth noting is that the first 3 designs (and many more impressive ones) were all designed by Kelly Johnson. The forth is not a lockheed aircraft (I assume you mean the B2), and flying wings were almost used in the second world war in the Ho229.

If you had told me that Kelly Johnson thought he could make fusion work then yeah, I would take it seriously, but he has been dead for 25 years. Since then I have not seen anything from them that was not a natural progression of what they had done before.