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Title: A scene never to be repeated again: a sky filled with black stealth fighter jets
Post by: SPQR on January 06, 2014, 05:57:09 am

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By David Cenciotti


On Oct. 27, 2006, twenty-five Lockheed F-117A stealth jets flew over Heritage Park at Holloman Air Force Base during the Silver Stealth event for the F-117′s 25th anniversary.

59 production  “Nighthawk” aircraft (one of those was lost to the Serbian Air Defense during “Operation Allied Force“) served with the U.S. Air Force until the type was retired in 2008: about half of them can be seen flying together in the image taken by Denny Lombard and released by LM’s Code One magazine.

For another impressive air-to-air image of the 25 stealth jets taken during the same event, have a look here.

By the way, isn’t that ironic that 25 aircraft filling the sky would still not appear on radar?

Image credit: Denny Lombard via Lockheed Martin.

http://theaviationist.com/2014/01/02/f-117-formation-photo-new/

Title: Re: A scene never to be repeated again: a sky filled with black stealth fighter jets
Post by: SPQR on January 06, 2014, 06:00:58 am

Awesome Planes. Finally solved the technical problems