Description: 192 Pages Indexed. Air Force blue boards. Owner's name label on back endpaper. Bottom of front board edge and bottom of spine shows some wear. Interior is faultless. Approaching the target I was apprehensive. Two thoughts crossed my mind. First. would I be able to identify the target? Second, did the Air Force really want me to drop this bomb? These thoughts only lasted several seconds. I had practiced for three years, and I could find and destroy any target within one second of my scheduled time-over-target. All I had to do was play what I called a highly sophisticated video game. As I approached the target area, my adrenaline was up and instincts took over. I found the target on my infrared display and concentrated on tracking the target by slewing the crosshairs over the aim point. I was able to take time to glance outside the cockpit. I waited for the display to tell me I was in range, and I depressed the pickle button. Several seconds later the weapons bay doors snapped open,' and I felt the 2,OOO pound bomb depart the aircraft. The bomb appeared at the bottom of the display just before it hit. At exactly 2:51 A.M. I saw the bomb go through the cross hairs and penetrate the bunker. The explosion came out of the hole the bomb had made and blew out the doors of the bunker. Colonel Greg Feest's recount of delivering one of the first bombs to Iraq during the Gulf War is just one of the many stories about the F-117 Nighthawk. The authors cover the stealth fighter from nose to tail; from its secret origins, flight testing, and development, to its combat operations in Panama and Desert Storm, Firsthand srories, newly declassified information and photos, and extensive appendices listing every detail about the aircraft and its pilots make this the most definitive book on the F-117 ever written. Contents in Six Chapters: Black and blue, Skunk Works Magic, Flight Test, Tonopah Years, The Storm, and Holloman and Palmdale. Appendices: Desert Operations, Bandit List, F-117 Commanders, Program Milestones, Individual Air Craft Histories, Flight Test Summary, and Glossary.

Jacket: Jacket

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition