Project Have Blue - Lockheed's First Stealth Fighter 

That reminds me of the "Aurora" sightings I used to hear about.

The building is now gone it was b6 360 the airport was blacked out until c5 depart feds every where

Boeing take note...

All of the good managers, the ones that actually had to be competent at the work they managed, disappeared once someones skin color or their gender took precedence over their competence levels.

for real. my managers would have just had a panic attack not accomplished anything...

In defense contracting, the managers are usually techs or machinists, etc. who were promoted due to experience. Even then it doesn’t guarantee them being competent so this team was legitimately badass for that

"Fine, ill do it myself"

bsharrard // back to third grade at your Madrassa, bonehead

@bsharrard LMAO, they won't use stealth aircraft to bomb local insurgency, that's what drones are for.

Effn-A

Oscill8 check out their other channel, Dark Skies!

@opugilist hell, that's the least I could do lol!

With my Kodak camera I took a picture of my wife standing in front of one in the museum in Dayton, and when the film was developed, all I could see was my wife and maybe a faint outline of the F-117 behind her. The flash was diffused enough not to capture the plane, even though I'm sure all the 'secret stuff' was removed before it was displayed.

@@spacemaniii1460 hahahaha

No, the F-15 eagle/strike eagle owns that spot.

Tyson Cott Convair Super Hustler

@@tysoncott7402 Flying fast and high is cool, but facing the enemy head on and destroying just about every opponent you face and flying home every time to tell the tale is a lot cooler.

I share that opinion. Fighters might get all the love but the Blackbird is just a thing of beauty in my eyes.

badtz maru // I’m with you badtz. It’s the “Habu” first in my book. I was excited every time I saw one taxi out, take off, and come home again. They had the three hangers about fifty yard to the left of our end of the flight line at a place near the South China Sea from 1967-1974. They hadn’t even acknowledged its exsistance in 67. The only one I know we lost was a crash and burn landing one night on the runway about ten or so ..the pilot made it out and we saw him heading perpendicular out across the grass. I was an aviation electronics guy out on the launch assist truck for some of our tanker takeoffs that night and we headed in his direction but got cutoff by several Marine jeeps while another truck from their area shot out to pick him up. The base fire trucks were already only a few hundred yards from the fire site. We turned back to “our” area and watched it burn out. There must have been substantial magnesium involved from the way it burned. Our six tankers took off a little after 11 on the other runway and by then there must have been fifty from their detachment sweeping and collecting anything that didn’t burn after the trucks had hosed things down. I know the pilots weren’t military and I know theirs was the only part of the flight line that had marines guarding it. And that included the tactical nuke bunkers on the far side of the line with the fighter sad.

@@globaltrend3739 To get into the operations area, you had to have a l restricted area badge with your picture, do a hand scan, and have a personal ID number. To get into the area I worked in (communications/computer center), another hand scan (for fingerprints) to ensure you were allowed in that building AND a digital code to enter our work center. I thought the hand scans worked really well and looking back at the technology we had in the late 1980's, pretty cool, too.

I heard pizza

I was told I'd be safe to leave my house.

Beer was what I was told.

Blackjack and Hookers.

Two scoops????

That would be nice, but I think details on that aircraft are still pretty classified, I believe. We only know it exists because the helicopter that crashed landed on a wall with its tail hanging over one side where the Seal Team couldn't burn it with incendiaries. I remember seeing the first photo of it (from Pakistani sources) when it was described as a "Blackhawk helicopter". I remember looking at the tail rotor and thinking: "Uh...that's not a Blackhawk. That's got to be some sort of classified helicopter."

@@thudthud5423 it still would make for a great content though, but what astounds me to this day is the speed of how a totally new helicopter was made in so short a time. As an enthusiast, I know how long ittakes for an airframe to mature from pure design concept, to an operational vehicle. What we dont know is if this heli was already built up or already in development for a long long period of time and OP Neptune Spear was the opportunity the airframe was waiting for.

​@oneviwatara *Whatever troll*

@oneviwatara *You're*

@oneviwatara You're*

When I was really little, there was an airshow across from my aunts house in Maryland, an F117 crashed at the show into a house not far from my aunt's. Black SUVs and Suits were everywhere!

@@davidsilk3764 thats kinda scary

@BC Bob you seem like the type to call everything fake because you didnt get to experience it. Jealousy leads down a very dark road.

I remember that. I lived in Porterville at the time and the road from California Hot Springs over to Lake Isabella was closed for several weeks. CalFire said it was because of a brush fire that happened around that same time, but the fire was closer to Ponderosa than the road over that pass.

Only 1 F117 was lost during that war and that was due to Pilot error. No F117 crashed into any river, that is a fairy tale.

Jeff meyer link?

@@orangecat3021 I'm sorry, I have no link, I saw it on a documentary on stealth , years ago. I'll look around and see if i can find it. if I do I will send it to you. The documentary era was around late 90s early 2000s if you want to look.

Jeff meyer: scorch marks? And the supposed video of the crash at 8:31 with huge flames, B.S. Out of gas, at most fumes in empty tank will give explosive result but not flames as shown. Don't let them blow smoke up your keyster by believing every video you see.

@@lawfulldick4158 Chill he just made a small mistake, you're acting like it's the middle of the Cold War and he just launched a nuke against the U.S.S.R.

@@terrain7879 Just pointing out the obvious to the ignorant (ignorant - as in believing every insane babbling lie the a'hole in Washington oinks daily). As an outside observer, it is hugely interesting (entertaining) to see the Ununited Staes of America tear itself to pieces , the shortest empire to have existed, history at Mach 3.

Daniel Rodriguez I believe (and know) you are incorrect. The F-117 program originally started as the Have Blue technology development program where two smaller test aircraft were built for flight test. Both articles were lost due to software bugs in the flight control avionic. Later, under the production contract with Lockheed, two more full size F-117’s were lost (crashed) also due to additional yet undetected s/w bugs. The moniker “Wobbly Goblin” refers to the inherent aerodynamically unstable stealth design, aka “the hopeless diamond”. The F-117 IS aerodynamically unstable requiring redundant on-board flight control computers to effectively manage the aircraft. As a former Skunk Works and Lockheed Martin employee who has worked BOTH programs, I learned all this on the job. The “Shadow Hawk” to which you refer may be a reference to call sign or an aircraft pseudoname in a video game like Call of Duty or something.

gaba chi not directly....I was a bean counter (financial analyst)

It was nicknamed the 'Wobblin' Goblin'.

@@williamduffy1227 that was my handle in Jane's ww2 fighters 🤣

@@daltonv5206 😅😝

What about dark 5

The F-35 was the opposite in every way of this program. It was designed by lobbyists on K street, specifically in order to cost as much as possible, enhancing the career of the lobbyists.

@@777jones it’s been a disaster.

F-35 wasn't a complete failure. Onboard electronics are hightly advance compare to older aircraft. RCS is also lower than F-22. Sure it's shit at dogfight, but then you wouldn't need to be in one if the enemy can't see you. I wonder what the new performance will be for the F-35 when they start changing into the XA100 engine.

Skunk works brought the two test beds in at 34million. For 2 planes.

@@theundead1600 R&D cost money too

Too each his own; I found the narration to be distracting to the point it got annoying. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@razvanmazilu6284 Also, sometimes the dude got saliva in he's mouth and he stops to suck in, that's clear at some points, and sometimes he forgets to BREATHE and talks very fast at the end of the sentences, he even bends hes tongue and you can feel it on the pronunciation. Very, very annoying narration.

Mine too :)

It's my absolute favourite.

Ahhh ..so your spelling error ... Nighthawk ... was an error.

yes, it's really the peak brutalism design, too bad it was actually garbage.

@@Diamond_Tiara yea too slow and not enough weapons

R starfox First Mission music starts playing in my head.

Good luck

Goddamn Slippy should've never been their test pilot.

It looks like a fancy paper airplane

This comment hurts my soul. XD

I'm currently reading that book. About 80 more pages to go.

Neutron one time long time insult.

Oh Yugoslavia did know it was stealth. But it didn't matter since they had obtained the exact flight plan of that F117. They simply knew when and where it was going to fly over. Without that super preperations they wouldn't have achieved the only time the F117 was shot down.

Stealth doesn't mean invulnerability. Also you are underestimating the expertise of the serbian air defense forces. Serbia is not Irak.

@@wino0000006 This.

@@wino0000006 How did they obtain the info?

Don't forget dark footage and dark photos as well!

Hats lives matter

We have a secret squadron of upgraded YF-23s 🤫

@@patelivid1637 Oh wow! Is this true? I liked the YF-23 over the YF-22.

He also didn't mention the F117 used a companion aircraft that's still classified.

@@aaronisgrate you are correct my friend.... it'll be very interesting to find out what it was. Maybe the F-22 or something equally phenomenal.

@@gooner72 might be F23 related actually. Like but before the yf23s time.

@@aaronisgrate Elaborate?

@@johnl9894 on what? Search F117 companion and do some digging. Some think the companion was one of the early losing competitors to the F117 that continued on being developed. Some think it's an early bigger YF23 type plane. The rumor is they went in ahead of the F117 and lit up enemy air defenses and lazed targets for the approaching f117s

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@@Bearak_ lol

more of an interceptor than a ground attack/mini-bomber, which is the role of the BRRT anyways.

They are using some in Red hat exercises to simulate stealth drones from China, Iran and others.

Yugoslavia: "I don't feel so good..." Breaks up.

Wasn't that Clarkson and May?

You correct.

How do you know?

​@@robhudson5533 It is a play on an acronym.

Same reason I knew about Rivet Amber and Rivet Ball. Way back in the CW days. I think the coolest part of the Recon chain was that by the time any project was even talked about in the public domain, it’s replacement was already operational an flying..so it goes to this day I imagine. And ufo sitings make for a fascinating diversion and have since the fiftys. Go Air Force!

@@right2barearms718 Trust me, I know ALL ABOUT the Ball!!! I spent many cold nights out in Shemya!!! Hell in '69 the Ruskies (unofficially) shot down tail # 4137 lost all 19 souls on board! Never recovered any wreckage or bodies, all lost at sea! Guess we'll never know! 🤷‍♂️

Aurora Jones thaaaaaat doesn't exist....

Thats what they all say

John Snow shut up conspiracy theorist

John Snow why would it still be classified if we already got a fuck ton of pictures to prove it's existence

They havent announced it to the public and its still top secret. If u ask the military about it they will tell you it doesnt exist.

WE TALK THAT WAY IN NEW YORK ALL OF THE TIME😂

Aurora Jones: I've read the iron ferrite absorbs radar 😉

@@endutubecensorship your kinda right. But you have to use a magnetic field to get the iron and some other material to make the correct kind of shape. So you have to mix your paint with it and probably sprinkle it on top and then use a huge magnet to make the field while the paint drys.

bob thompson: icing sugar sifter 😃

Were you planning to paint yourself and your leathers with it, too, or just the bike?

@@endutubecensorship maybe lol. There a little bit about it in a video on the record cannon ball run. There's a guy who was the radar nerd and he talks about something that works but he had problems with it corroding and then not being stealthy

atomictraveller - I will take a look at that. Thank you.

Set playback speed to .75x

He sped it up to fit within a 10 minute video

Would have more time, if there weren't so many Ads

@@nerradus i have addblock. have not seen an add in years

You think he talks quickly?

He’s probably a southerner, they take forever to get out a sentence.