F-117 Nighthawk, the world’s first operational stealth aircraft #shorts

[OokamiKageGinGetsu]

"The Nighthawk [ ] 2008, but it still lives on. . ."

[cxnfirm]

One of the coolest looking planes out there

[Roller.Mobster]

"For a brick, he flew pretty good"

[whatthehellisayoutube]

"The nighthawk was (loud jet engines) 2008." Top quality

[thereactionstation.]

We had these in the 70s is just insane imagine what we have tucked away from prying eyes in 2022

[mikesmith]

They gave it the F designation because they were afraid pilots didn’t want to fly a limited sub sonic bomber. By giving it the F designation, it got pilots excited to apply too the stealth program

[yur_name_here]

It's in soft retirement, meaning it is still crewed and flown but not in service.

[regeos]

Imagine you just chilling with your AA and then you see a flying cursor

[eventfulnonsense]

"Sorry, we didn't know it was invisible" 😂

[lowkey]

I’ve seen this bird in real life. No pictures or videos do it justice. It’s immensely big, flat and pointy. It looks more like a triangular dagger in real life, rather then a triangular craft. Just beautiful in awe inspiring ways. Makes you proud that people like me and you were capable of building such a beautiful machine.

[ArmorCast]

It was given the F designation to attract fighter pilots to the program without actually having to tell them what they’d be flying.

Apparently most fighter pilots would scoff at the idea of testing light bombers…

[FebiMaster]

I remember having die cast model of this when i was a kid that i held on to while i was sick and recovering in the hospital, really cool looking plane

[clashwithmoi]

Since I’ve never across seen one, it must be pretty stealthy

[arcturus]

This plane still looks so ahead of it’s time, beautiful design and engineering

[theScottishKoala]

Interestingly, there are two reasons it was named “F”-117 for a fighter. Number one - to confuse and scare the Soviet block. Number two is the more interesting one. The designers needed test pilots, but they wanted the very best fighter pilots only, pilots who probably wouldn’t be all that keen on jumping into a tactical bomber. They used the fighter designation to sell the program to the volunteer pilots, making them think it was a more prestigious fighter rather than a “lame old bomber”

I can’t vouch for how accurate that is, but I had a buddy who flew F-117’s in Desert Storm who swears it’s the reason

[shaggy_e]

This and the SR-71 Blackbird are my favorites. The f117 was a flying doorstop and my grandfather helped engineer the coms on the blackbird.

[angrygamer]

I remember seeing a Stealth fighter when I was a kid. It was my Mom, a friend of ours, and me all sitting outside during the summer and we had the porch lights off so we can see the stars and all of a sudden we saw a fighter REALLY low that it was over the trees. Weirdly enough it didn't make a sound though.

[ez]

No the F-117 had flat surfaces because radar waves would deflect the waves away from the radar point instead of radially bouncing back the waves as it does on round surfaces and back to the radar. So the F-117 wasn’t completely undetectable but it would be minimally detected whenever the surfaces on the plane would bounce the directly back to the radar which was very little that most radars would disregard it as a flock of birds.

[elyzium]

Serbia: We didn't know its invisible. XD

[BavarianKnight]

Hands down one of the most beautiful aircraft mainly because how unique it is