F-117-NIGHTHAWK · MATERIALS
F-117 Nighthawk
First operational stealth aircraft. Flown by the United States Air Force from 1983 to 2008. Public existence acknowledged 10 November 1988. Faceted radar-cross-section design directly informed by the 1962 Soviet paper "Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction" by Pyotr Ufimtsev.