F-117 Nighthawk Could Still Fight (Just Not Against China or Russia)
It helped propel America’s stealth journey to greatness.
Here s What You Need to Know: Not only is the subsonic light bomber optimized to defeat high frequency radars, it also does not have the ability to map out threat emitters and manage its signature in real time like the F-22 and F-35. Nor does it have the performance to survive when it is detected and confronted.
Now is a good time to look at the evolution of stealth starting with the Lockheed Martin
F-117 Nighthawk. That aircraft was retired in 2008, but would the F-117 still be useful today?
TAHLEQUAH â In 1958, a Cherokee woman from Los Altos, California, appeared on the television game show âWhatâs My Lineâ and stumped panelists who attempted to guess her occupation. They wondered what relation she had to rockets and missiles.
Mary Golda Ross became a national icon for Cherokees and women for her work as the first Native American aerospace engineer.
Ross was born in 1908 in Park Hill, and is the great-great granddaughter of Principal Chief John Ross. At 16, she was enrolled at Northeastern State Teacherâs College in Tahlequah. She graduated in 1928 with a mathematics degree and later taught math and science for a few years, according a National Museum of the American Indian Newservice article.
Check Out These Fascinating, Declassified Photos of The A-12 Oxcart RCS Tests Inside Area 51
Check Out These Fascinating, Declassified Photos of The A-12 Oxcart RCS Tests Inside Area 51
Photo of a Lockheed A-12 mock-up mounted on a test stand for radar cross section (RCS) testing. Barnes wrote, This is a full-scale mock-up in its final external configuration with all-moving rudders on stud fins. A piston-activated ram elevate the pole consisting of three battleship propeller shafts welded together to 50-feet with a rotating head for changing the RCS view. We eventually had to shield the pole to prevent radar backscatter.
(Photo: Thornton D. TD Barnes via Facebook with permission)