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

417

Ibid., 150, 151.

418

Ibid., 153, 154.

419

Scott, 'F-117A Design Presented Avionics Challenges,' 43, 44.

420

Macy, Destination Baghdad, 27, 50, 53–55; and Robert Shelton Jr. and Randy Jolly, Team Stealth F-117 (Stillwater, Minn.: Specialty Press, 1993), 29, 31.

421

'We Own the Night,' 18, 19, 24.

422

Jim Goodall, F-117 Stealth in Action, (Carrollton, Tex.: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1991), 16.

423

Pace, Lockheed Skunk Works, 233; and Sweetman and Goodall, Lockheed F-117 A, 29,30.

424

'We Own the Night,' 15, 60, 61. 'Bandit' was the radio call sign for the F-117 during flight tests. All the operational air force pilots received numbers counting from 150. The Lockheed and air force test pilots had numbers in the 100 range. Hal Farley, the first man to fly the plane, was given the special number '117.'

425

D. M. Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot (Osceola, Wis.: Motorbooks, 1993), 34, 35.

426

Goodall, F-117 Stealth in Action, 31–39.

427

Macy, Destination Baghdad, 28.

428

Goodall, F-117 Stealth in Action, 31–33.

429

Macy, Destination Baghdad, 27, 67.

430

Interview with Capt. John Hesterman and Lt. Col. Bob Maher, Edwards AFB Air Show, October 9, 1990.

431

Goodall, F-117 Stealth in Action, 29.

432