Dark Eagles: A History of the Top Secret U.S. Aircraft

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'Declassified Photos Show 'Have Blue' F-117A Predecessor,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (April 22, 1991), 30.

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Paul W. Martin, 'Development of the F-117 Stealth Fighter,' Lockheed Horizons (August 1992), 22.

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Pace, Lockheed Skunk Works, 227-29. The first five aircraft are sometimes referred to as 'YF-117.' This is incorrect.

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Jay Miller, Lockheed's Skunk Works: The First Fifty Years (Arlington, Tex.: Aerofax, 1993), 165.

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Pace, Lockheed Skunk Works, 227.

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William Scott, 'F-117A Design Presented Avionics Challenges,'Mv/ation Week and Space Technology (February 8, 1993), 43.

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Harold C. Farley Jr. and Richard Abrams, 'F-117A Flight Test Program,' Society of Experimental Test Pilots 1990 Report to the Aerospace Profession, 144, 145.

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Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works (New York: Little, Brown, 1994), 83– 85.

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'We Own the Night,' Lockheed Horizons (May 1992), 8, 9, 14, 15; and Miller, Lockheed's Skunk Works, 166.

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'We Own the Night,' 10–11.

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Farley and Abrams, 'F-117A Flight Test Program,' 147, 148.

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'We Own the Night,' 6, 12, 13, 61.

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Bill Sweetman and James Goodall, Lockheed F-117 A (Osceola, Wis.: Motorbooks, 1990), 27.

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'We Own the Night,' 13. Ben Rich, who preferred gray, explained that, 'The Skunk Works plays by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold sets the rules! If the General had wanted pink, we'd have painted them pink.'

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Farley and Abrams, 'F-117A Flight Test Program,' 148, 149.