Season 12 · Episode 53

F-117 Nighthawk Stealth

• Release date
• September 22, 2005
• Runtime
• 44 min

The project was surrounded by secrecy and dogged by controversy from the very beginning. Starting in the late '70s, engineers at Lockheed's legendary "Skunkworks" developed a revolutionary new fighter that was destined to transform aerial combat forever. Little more than a decade later, the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth fighter saw combat for the first time in Panama.