F-117 Stealth Fighter Video

[AeroSpace News]

After years of service, some of it top secret, the United States Air Force is to retire the F-117A Nighthawk, the first so-called Stealth Fighter, in April 2008. 

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/p_t_xZSDbhg&amp;rel=0&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/p_t_xZSDbhg&amp;rel=0&amp;hl=en</a>

Built by the famous Lockheed "Skunk Works" in a classified program, the plane pioneered low observable technologies now applied to the F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), and B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. Retirement of the F-117, occasionally called the Wobbly Goblin, is intended to save the Air Force funds for other programs.

Sad day. I was at the first public showing of the F-117 at Nellis AFB.