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Gulf War Air Power Survey, vol. II, part I, 247; and Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 118, 119.

551

Jolly and Shelton, Team Stealth F-117, 93.

552

Gulf War Air Power Survey, vol. II, part I, 322-25.

553

Private source. An army sergeant recalled his first sight of Iraqi troops. He was driving his fuel truck across the desert when he saw two Iraqis beside an overturned jeep. As he drove past, they waved. He thought, 'This is the enemy?' Then, at a refueling stop, two columns marched in and sat down. They were either very young or old men, ragged and hungry. He never saw an Iraqi officer or NCO; they had fled, abandoning their troops in the desert.

554

''Peace with Honor'—and at Great Price,' Life, (March 18, 1991), 58, 59.

555

Macy, Destination Baghdad, 68, 69, 74, 75.

556

Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 122; and private source.

557

Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 120-23.

558

Timothy R. Gaffney, 'Secrets of the F-117A,' Popular Science (September 1993), 73–77, 105, 106.

559

David A. Fulghum, 'Planners Seek to Exploit U.S. Technology Lead,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (January 17, 1994), 52.

560

John D. Morrocco, 'Lockheed Returns to Navy with New F-117N Design,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (March 7, 1994); and Miller, Lockheed's Skunk Works, 182-84. The F-117N proposal highlights the decline of naval aviation. While the air force is deploying a second generation of stealth aircraft, the B-2 Spirit and F-22 Lightning II, the navy has yet to build even a first- generation stealth aircraft. When the last A-6 Intruder is retired in 1999, the navy will be without a long-range, all-weather attack aircraft for a decade.

561

Fulghum, 'Planners Seek to Exploit U.S. Technology Lead,' 52.

562

Don Dwiggins, Man-Powered Aircraft (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab, 1979).

563

AeroVironment Inc., 'Backgrounder — Pathfinder Solar-Electrical Aircraft' (Simi Valley, Calif.: AeroVironment Inc., 1993).

564

Ibid.