As we have Reported earlier a Mysterious F-117 Nighthawk Fuselage Under Protective Cover was Spotted in Transit in California. According to The War Zone Report More than a decade after the F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack jet’s official retirement, the Air Force still has 51 of the aircraft in its inventory and has …
Read More »Mysterious F-117 Nighthawk Fuselage Under Protective Cover Spotted in Transit in California
on Aug. 16, 2019, at 4:09 PM a California-based aviation expert and photographer Chris McGreevy Spotted a Mysterious F-117 Nighthawk Fuselage Under Protective Cover near the joint military/civilian use Palmdale Regional Airport outside Palmdale, California. “It was just outside USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale Ca. I’m guessing they trucked it down …
Read More »The story of a lucky F-117A pilot who survived Nighthawk disintegration at the Chesapeake Air Show
On Sept. 14, 1997, at about 3 p.m. F-117A #81-793 piloted by Maj. Bryan Knight disintegrated into midair and crashed into A house during a flyby at the Chesapeake Air Show F-117A Nighthawk with approximately 11,000 pounds of fuel aboard was making its third and final pass of the airfield at …
Read More »The Story of RAF Tornado that made an emergency landing at the home of the top-secret F-117 Base
Exercise Red Flag is a two-week advanced aerial combat training exercise with the purpose of offering realistic air-combat training for military pilots and other flight crew members from the U.S., NATO, and other allied countries. Each year, four to six Red Flag exercises are held at Nellis Air Force Base, …
Read More »Royal Air Force could have become the only F-117 Nighthawk foreign operator
The declassified documents from the British National Archives show that former US President Ronald Reagan had offered British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a chance for both countries to work on the F-117 stealth fighter programme back in 1986. The later version offered to the Royal Air Force in 1995 was …
Read More »Interesting Facts About Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Attack Aircraft
The U.S. Air Force officially retired its 52 surviving F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighters in 2008, transferring their radar-evading attack mission to B-2 bombers, F-22s and eventually F-35s. The Air Force claimed it would preserve the F-117s for future use 1) Americans have managed to devise a computer program called “Echo” which …
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