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Fade to Black
It’s official. America’s first operational stealth aircraft, the F-117 Nighthawk, is set for retirement.
“It is still a good airplane right now,” Gen. T. Michael Moseley, Air Force Chief of Staff, said of this strange-looking but highly effective weapon. However, he added, “it’s time to start looking at a transition” from the F-117 to something else.
Moseley noted that, after another 10 to 15 years, the service will have F-22s and F-35 Joint Strike Fighters possessing the same low observable characteristics and able to carry more than just two weapons—the F-117’s limit.
The Air Force’s 2007 budget request called for the retirement by 2008 of the entire fleet, but Moseley later allowed that the day could be postponed to a point at which a larger number of F-22s have entered into service.
The F-117 first saw action in Panama in 1989 during Operation Just Cause. Ever since, the “Black Jet” has been a star player in a new era of air warfare. That new era started with a bang in 1991, when the F-117 matched up stealth and precision during the first Gulf War.
The F-117 is also likely to retire with an amazing distinction: It suffered no combat fatalities. Although one F-117 was shot down in Yugoslavia in 1999, during NATO’s Operation Allied Force, that pilot
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History of Secrecy
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Memorial Tributes: Volume 23 (2021)
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In February 1975 he was recruited by Ed Martin, Lockheed-California Company’s science and engineering director, to work as project manager in the Lockheed Skunk Works on the initial design of what became the Have Blue very low radar cross-section research aircraft. He, radar return computation expert Denys Overholser, and airplane designer Kenneth Watson hold the patent on Lockheed’s initial entry in this competition with Northrop. Lockheed’s winning design led to the award of the Lockheed F-117A contract by the US Air Force for what became the world’s first successful stealth military aircraft.
During the summer of 1976 Dick suffered a stroke and had to leave the program. He returned to Lockheed a year later and continued to work on low-observable airplane designs. Bill Elsner, then USAF chief engineer for stealth programs, was quoted as saying in the mid-1980s that “there would never have been a stealth airplane but for the genius of Dick Scherrer.”
Dick left Lockheed in September 1979 after a disagreement with management about whether his out-of-Lockheed-hours work on high-temperature ceramic combustion chambers for auto