The F-117 Nighthawk pioneered stealth technology, developed by Lockheed's Skunk Works based on a Soviet mathematician's theory, featuring a faceted airframe, internal weapon bays, and heat signature ...

An F-117 Nighthawk flies over the Nevada desert. A restored F-117A that flew 78 combat sorties, more than any other Nighthawk, will go on permanent public display at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, ...

An F-117 Nighthawk flies over the Nevada desert. The unique design of the single-seat F-117 provides exceptional combat capabilities. The fighter can employ a variety of weapons and is equipped with ...

-The U.S. Air Force still uses the iconic jet as a cost-effective platform for several key missions. -Primarily, it serves as a unique "aggressor" trainer, simulating foreign stealth aircraft like ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Believe it or not, Lockheed did have plans for an F-117 that really would have been a stealth fighter, but they didn’t offer it to the Air Force. The Lockheed F-117 ...

Using night vision equipment, a photographer captured this ghostly view of crews in Kuwait readying a Lockheed F-117A for a mission over southern Iraq in 1998. (Greg L. Davis) Operating at night and ...

The last F-117 Black Jets officially retired from active service on Apr. 22, 2008. But some Nighthawks have continued to fly. On Apr. 22, the U.S. Air Force posted an interesting article on their ...

How the world’s first stealth combat aircraft went on to change forever the way the U.S. fought wars. As night fell over Baghdad on January 16, 1991, a small army of maintainers and pilots gathered ...

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: The F-117 Nighthawk, the world’s first operational stealth aircraft, revolutionized aviation with its near-invisibility to radar. Its success was undeniable ...

PORTAGE, MI -- The Air Zoo is getting its own F-117 Nighthawk, the original stealth aircraft, later this year. The Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Museum will be a “proud recipient” of one of the first ...

PORTAGE, MI — After an extensive journey of traveling 2,600 miles from Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, the ‘Shaba’ fuselage arrived at the Air Zoo to a crowd of excited onlookers. Shaba, the nickname ...