FLYING THE F-117 NIGHTHAWK (First Stealth Jet) - Microsoft Flight Simulator 

Was it Holloman AFB, New Mexico??

I saw one fly at an air show over fifteen years ago. Some Air Force base, can't remember where. It didn't do anything spectacular, nothing flashy or loud, but it didn't need to. I already knew what it was capable of. I'd seen the footage of the devastation it caused in the first Gulf war. It was like watching a black panther surveying its territory. It just flew from one end of the runway to the other, but it commanded my respect and awe.

Doesn't matter anyway

Why?

SR-71 wasn’t a stealth bomber it was a reconnaissance stealth jet that was rediculus fast could out run missiles

Also it wasn't designed on a computer. Also the term stealth doesn't mean it can be seen it means it can't be locked on. High bomers and low fighters are detected by different frequencies for lock. The radars can see them they just cart target them with the different types of ground missiles that target them. However today it only takes a few encounters with them, for the enemy to tweak the targeting parameters to them be ablel to detect them.

​@ANONYMOUS-kl3nu the sr 71 was originally going to be designed as a bomber but then they decided against it.

the blackbird wasn’t a stealth aircraft, you could see it you just had no chance of catching it

Woah! Nice!

Bro lives in the 80s. Yugoslavia😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

I saw one Escorting a Passenger Jet bout a year ago, was in deep Sierra Nevadas, And it was flying pretty damn low

I will say I've always lived near an air base. I saw one fly overhead just like a year ago! Always loved seeing them and the bomber at airshows as a kid.

Umm my guy Yugoslavia is not a country anymore

Because of pilot error not because of the plane

@@RW-zn8vy It wasn't pilot error though, there were a number of reasons why it happened. I'll try to keep it as short as possible. Zoltan Dani the commander of the 250th air defence brigade had trained his crew to move equipment and set it back up in very quick time, they limited their use of the radar to avoid becoming targets for the anti radiation missiles. However upon the night of the shoot down, they were looking for the aircraft in roughly the area they knew it would fly and detected it when the bomb bay doors opened. On that same night the prowlers which were responsible for not only jamming the radars but taking them out as well, were unable to fly because of the weather. So the F117 was flying alone. They tracked the aircraft and after launching 2 missiles the second one exploded causing the F117 to fall out of the sky. They actually hit a second one as well, however that was able to land at a nearby base. Final closing fun fact for you. Dale Zelko, the F117 pilot actually met Zoltan Dani at his bakery to speak about the incident. Both of them have met each others families and have become friends to a point. The wing and canopy is in Belgrade's Aeronautical museum. I've seen the wing however the canopy wasn't on display when I visited unfortunately.

not even pilot error ​@@RW-zn8vy, Dani Zoltan, the one whom detected the aircraft, flipped his radar on at the exact same time the nighthawks bombay doors were open. days earlier, spies had been watching the airbase where the nighthawks were taking off and reported their deployment to the serbs whenever they took off, that would always use the exact same routes every time.

@@billmaster1157 using the exact routes is an error within itself lol but yes the pilot having the Bombay doors open after bombing is what lead to him being tracked and shot down so easily.

@@RW-zn8vy true, but those things are open for less than a second, it was a stroke of pure luck that has not been repeated since. Believe me, they have tried. Also, radar on low frequency picks up absolutely everything, so the only reason Dani knew it was an F1-17 is because of the flight pattern. As you have mentioned, that was an error.

I’d love to see him fly a Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka)

Agreed 👍

It was most likely a refueling tanker. They are converted civilian airliners so they look very much like passenger planes from a distance.

@@brianl5631 that makes a lot more sense lol

Not sure where you got your information, but no F117's were made with a second seat, even as a trainer. Your first flight in the 'wobbly goblin' was your solo check ride.

@@brianl5631 Huh okay i stand corrected haha! I got my information from a wingman i flew with awhile ago, appearently he's wrong lol!

You were right up until the carrier part. The hook is for emergency stopping on a runway, not a carrier.

I had the privilege of being a mechanic for that bird. Cool plane.

Yup I saw one escorting a Private Jet, While fishing out in Dinkey Creek in the Sierra Nevadas🤷‍♂️ Still confused about it but It was a Black Triangle next to a Passenger Jet, Don’t know what else it could be

It wasn't, idk why people keep saying it was. The SAM site commander knew where to look due to the USAF neglected to change the flight plans and provide proper escorts for the nighthawk, and that nighthawk was suffering from multiple problems.

Doesn’t change the fact that the “untouchable” aircraft the us swore by was still shot out of the sky by a local country

It was pure skill.

Flaps? Where we're going we don't need flaps! Seriously though, the F117 had no flaps. Fun fact - because it had no flaps, its landing speed was very high. Thus it uses a giant parachute out the back to slow it when it lands.

Sadly the f117 was retired

Well, they sort of went into retirement. The Air Force keeps a couple of them in a climate controlled hanger that are used extremely rarely, but they were technically officially retired in 2008.

@@austintyler1804Not exactly Bro, I saw one Escorting a Private Jet while fishing out in the Sierra Nevadas🤷‍♂️ They say it retired but the gov says a lot of things😂