Because of its advanced features, the F-117 Night Hawk was not an aircraft that could be quickly scrambled and taken to the air. In fact, standard F-117 mission preparation could take six hours ...

(Greg L. Davis) Operating at night and virtually invisible to radar, the F-117 Nighthawk racked up a near-perfect combat record. After crossing the Serbian border at 18,000 feet, U.S. Air Force ...

The United States Air Force's F-117 Nighthawk crawled so the F-22 Raptor ... during the Cold War and though it had to operate at night, was the centerpiece for the first Gulf War.

The F-117 was undoubtedly designed as a fighter jet ... However, they performed more than a third of the bombing runs on the war's first night, dropping 2,000-pound GBU-27 laser-guided bombs.

Meanwhile, Iraqi anti-aircraft guns fire blindly into the night sky—a scene I remember watching unfold live on TV as I sat in my college dorm room. Combat losses for the F-117 that first night ...

It is worth noting that all F-117 flights out of Nevada took place at night to keep the secret craft out of sight of Soviet spy satellites. Aircraft 82-0799 also flew out of Holloman Air Force ...

Here’s how it went. On Mar. 27, 1999, during the fourth night of Operation Allied Force (OAF) over Serbia, a U.S. Air Force F-117 Nighthawk (#82-0806), flown by Lt. Col. Darrell P. Zelko ...

The F-117 Nighthawk, the aircraft that doesn’t want ... approximately 26 miles to the east of Groom Lake. He spent the night there, and was almost able to catch something very interesting.

It is worth noting that all F-117 flights out of Nevada took place at night to keep the secret craft out of sight of Soviet spy satellites. Aircraft 82-0799 also flew out of Holloman Air Force base in ...