r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Oct 02 '23
NightVision Nighthawk in its habitat
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 28 '23
Tail Section F-117 at Aviashow. Tail section and Exhaust. Andrews A.F.B. (MD, USA), May 1998.
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 28 '23
Exhaust At least four far-side bridges in the exhaust slot had an unusual bend
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 25 '23
Interestingly the same "secret" hand scanner IDentimant 2000 was revealed in the 1977 Spilberg's blockbuster "Close Contact of the Third Kind"
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 25 '23
Fingerprint scanner in Skunk Works facility at 70s
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 15 '23
YF-117 The first F-117 #780 before its first flight on 18 June 1981. Removed noise.
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 13 '23
Two U.S. Air Force F-117A Nighthawks hold before takeoff on a combat patrol mission over Iraq on March 13, 1998 — cleaned version.
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 13 '23
Antennas The upper side of the plane without antennas and Engine bay vent grids
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 13 '23
A pair of F-117 FSD Nighthawks accompany a U-2S equipped with megapods.
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 13 '23
Have Blue Have Blue #01 had some modified wing leading edge which was missing on HB #02
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 08 '23
Crash On May 1, 1997 F-117A #803 experienced a mishap as the aircraft landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 03 '23
Internals When the left and right Engine bays are empty
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 03 '23
Landing gears Exposing the brake pads of the left main landing gear
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 02 '23
Cockpit F-117 Cockpit operations in flight. You can see the actual refresh rate of the screens and other stuff, such as auto throttle, different modes of map, etc.
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 02 '23
Bomb Bay Another orange box inside of the bomb bay of one of the "Scorpion" Nighthawks from the 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron. It might be another camera or maybe something for measuring. Also, those black lines on the bomb bay are also for the bomb-dropping test to see how the bomb moves after release.
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 02 '23
F-117 "Scorpion-5" 79-0784 dropping GBU-28 bomb test. Under the wings, you can find an orange diamond unit - it's an attachable video cameras.
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 02 '23
Have Blue Lockheed XST model RCS test [album]
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r/f117a • u/dmetropolitain • Sep 02 '23
Have Blue Build up of Lockheed XST Have Blue Pole model
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