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

formation flyby, and the HALSOL-Pathfinder.

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Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 60, 61.

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John D. Morrocco, 'USAF Unveils Stealth Fighter; Black Weapons Probe Likely,' Aviation Week and Space Technology, (November 14, 1988), 28.

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'Air Force lifts veil on Stealth fighter squadron,' San Diego Union, November 11, 1988, sec. A.

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Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 60.

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San Diego Union, November 11, 1988, sec. A.

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Cunningham, 'Cracks in the Black Dike,' 27.

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Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 62. A later report said the whine was no longer being 'heard.'

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Mary Enges-Maas, 'Stalking the Stealth Fighter,' Times-Advocate, Decembers, 1989, sec. C.

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'We Own the Night,' 24, 25; and Sweetman and Goodall, Lockheed F-117A, 89, 90.

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Sky Soldiers (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1991), 128.

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David F. Bond, 'Six F-117As Flown in Panama Invasion; Air Force Broadens Daytime Operations,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (March 5, 1990), 30.

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Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 65.

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'Stealth error kept under wraps,' San Diego Union, April 7, 1990, sec. A. In all the adverse comments following the Panama mission, one aspect has been overlooked. The PDF had three hours warning that an attack was about to begin. Even had the bombs fallen where planned, the United States had already lost the element of surprise.

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'General didn't report Stealth flaws in Panama,' San Diego Tribune, July 2, 1990, sec. A.

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