How come a jet that is “retired” in 2008 continues to appear on the most challenging job in the training world? The F-117 Nighthawk is in a weird, long-lived micro-niche: it is an object of historical ...

Although the F-117 Nighthawk first saw action during operations over Panama, the aircraft impressively demonstrated its capabilities during the initial air campaign over Baghdad, Iraq. Making ...

The F-117 Nighthawk did something no American combat jet had done before: it turned near-invisibility into an operational weapon system rather than a laboratory trick. Long before stealth became a ...