Now you see it . . . The last days of the F-117 stealth fighter and the debate over what kind of Air Force America needs

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: February 4, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

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ALTHOUGH BEAUTIFUL BY few standards, the F-117 Nighthawk the Air Forces black, angular, Stealth fighter looked like the future when it was unveiled in 1988.

Sculpted to evade radar, the plane despite its name its really a precision bomber, or strike plane, not an air-to-air fighter became a star of the first Gulf War, flying some 1,300 sorties, and it got the call for some of the most sensitive missions of the second Iraq war, too. In 1999, it helped drive the Serbs out of Kosovo, though not before a Serbian anti-aircraft missile managed to knock one out of the sky. The ...

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