DARPA awarded Skunk Works with the contract for the Nighthawk less than a year after Have Blue’s successful first flight in 1977, and a legendary partnership between the Skunk Works team and the U.S. Air Force quickly made F-117 production a reality. The first flight took place in 1981 ...
At the height of the Cold War, the arrival of the innovative stealth technology of the F-117 Nighthawk couldn't be more perfect.
The last unit to operate the F-117 was the 412th Test Wing at Edwards AFB. The 410th Flight Test Squadron traces its roots to Q-unit. The squadron moved to Palmdale instead of Holloman after the Tonopah years. It operated five F-117s (#782, 783, 784, 811 and 831). 1 August 2008...
Figure 1 SF Airlines' first flight of "Wuxi-Chongqing-Frankfurt Hahn-Wuxi" Figure 2 Cargo loading for SF Airlines' first flight of "Wuxi-Chongqing-Frankfurt Hahn-Wuxi" The route has been the longest one operated by SF Airlines so far. It has a flight mileage of 9,540km and is undertaken...
The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works delivered the first F-117A configured with a new navigation system to the 49th Fighter Wing. Dubbed "RNIP-Plus," the Ring Laser Gyro/Global Positioning System Navigation Improvement Program reduces the drift pilots experience during flight. ...
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SF Airlines' 747 Undertakes Its First International Flight to Chennai On the evening of May 15, 2019, the first B747-400ERF B-2422 aircraft of SF Airlines Co., Ltd. (hereafter referred to as "SF Airlines" was flown successfully from Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport to Chennai, India,...
4/24/2008: Two Lockheed CTF F-117As seen flying at Palmdale, Ca by Brian Emch 8/01/2008: 410th FLTS 'Baja Scorpions' closes historic chapter 8/11/2008: Final Lockheed flight from Palmdale, Ca to TTR, Nv for Retirement F-117A mockup spotted at Luoyang Electro-Optical Technology Develop...
On April 1, 1991 the first eight F-117A's and two KC-10s arrived back at Nellis AFB before 25,000 people. The aircraft were #'s 830,810, 814, 808, 825, 791, 843, and 813. The return came eight months after initial deployment. The flight flew from Saudi Arabia, across Egypt to...