Posted on 03/11/2008 8:17:16 AM PDT by Joiseydude
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - The world's first attack aircraft to employ stealth technology is slipping quietly into history.
The inky black, angular, radar-evading F-117, which spent 27 years in the Air Force arsenal secretly patrolling hostile skies from Serbia to Iraq, will be put in mothballs next month in Nevada.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, which manages the F-117 program, will have an informal, private retirement ceremony Tuesday with military leaders, base employees and representatives from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
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They disagree. My student evals are amongst the highest if not the highest.
I feel sorry for folks who do not do their research homework before pontificating about stuff they know little about . . . especially in such critical areas as national security, globalism and END TIMES prophecy.
But I think you knew that already.
What absolute sadness last year when my boss and I went by George AFB. Many buildings were boarded up, tumble weeds all over many of the streets. Such a sad ending to such a great facility that gave so much to the outstanding organizations and personnel that had passed through there.
You could look up the speech of the retiring head of
Lockeed SkunkWorks.
Naw. Don’t bother. I don’t think anything would influence the thinking of such a . . . perspective.
One of the funny things was finding dead bats in the F-117 hanger - guess why
Same reason as the B-2 ramps at Edwards AFB every morning. The bats radar couldn’t warn them. They flew into them and died.
That’s the story I got from a contractor there. Maybe someone else can confirm it.
I agree.
It’s quite thoughtful of you to so tenaciously affirm your Screenname.
Flattery will get you nowhere ...
Bats use echolocation/sonar, ~20-120 KHz, to navigate, not radar.
Bye-Bye Bump!
The F-117 is being retired because it is old, expensive to maintain, and inferior to the JSF. It never had any air-air capability, which was a drawback.
***Seems like this would be a good platform to supplement the Close Air Support guys in their Warthogs and/or reconfiguring the plane as an unmanned aerial vehicle to supplement the Global Hawks.
I wasn’t aware that your perceptiveness concluded that I wanted to go anywhere with you.
But then I already understood about your perceptiveness. I guess I wasn’t thinking yet again.
The difference in only in the spectrum used.
The coating used, and the angles of the surfaces are designed to absorb and redirect incoming radio waves anywhere but back to the source.
Like the design of a anechoic chamber.
If you were in one, in total darkness, the echo of your voice wouldn’t help you avoid running into a wall.
Bats guidance system is more kin to a submarine, than an airplane.
The -117 was designed to evade I-J (India-Juliet) band radar. I-J band is a common SovBlock SAM search/track radar band.
The -117 sticks out like a very big, sore thumb at x-band and with OTH-B (think - Jindalee - a multistatic radar owned/operated by the fine folks in Oz) systems - which is why it was never a Naval attack system.
EF-111 Raven, don’t leave home without one - if you are a -117 driver.
Your understanding of my perceptiveness would make a neutrino seem enormous by comparison.
Can you source this please? Why would X band radar reflect back to the detector?
“Because the F-117’s were even invisible to the bats.”
Actually, a friend of my sister’s bosses wife’ friend, told her the real story.
The F-117’s flew many a night mission, and the bats would follow the craft as it taxied back to the hangars, because they thought it was one of their own.
It was warm, and when they ‘pinged’ it, it reflected back only an image the size and shape of a large bat.
They would try and ‘mate’ with it, and since the craft had not adequately cooled down, it would burn their little privates off, and they would die.
Are you from the area?
Long story made short. I was involved in trying to save George and then, keep it away from Victorville.
Long story short, George was in the City limits of Adelanto. Adelanto had an awesome plan for George. No gov’t funds or taxes needed, it would have generated half a billion in revenue in the first 2 years.
Victorville went to court and fought for it, on the basis that it should really be Victorville, as it was in their “sphere of influence”, and financially, Victorville had a larger stake in the success of it and was hurt the most by it’s closing. Of course, Victorville was run by a bunch of libs, and Adelanto was run by Republicans with real world business experience.
Victorville finally won. Their “plan” was a social services mecca, and you see the results.
Thank you Rep. Jerry Lewis (R) for sticking it in our backsides. You Clinton butt sucking biatch.
“They would try and ‘mate’ with it, and since the craft had not adequately cooled down, it would burn their little privates off, and they would die.”
Can you imagine the dialogue at the bat’s men’s club back in the cave?:
“Man, that girl is HOT!”
I keep forgetting that
you
did
NOT
have a close relative working around such craft.
My error.
Besides, why would I want to hinder the comfort of ignorance! I’m keenly interested in comfort—love my Laz-Y-Boy!
ROFL!!!!
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