What makes the F117 Nighthawk so stealthy?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2024
- While restoring the F117 Nighthawk, we've come to really appreciate the mind-blowing design used to make it stealthy. We take a look at the key features of the aircraft that made it possible.
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This deserves more attention
Its stealth its hard to find this video
Very cool. You can see how the YF-23 was related to aircraft like this. It's also interesting to see what comes out of factories in the future.
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Great video. Was exactly what I wanted after typing in a youtube search about this plane. Thanks for the content, really loved the video 👍
I do sheetmetal work... i recogniz those 1/8th cleco holding sheets together lol. Such a cool looking aircraft. Wobbling Goblin
Very informative, thank you!
Love these videos
awesome thx!
Is the thrust statically vectored as it comes out of the tail?
Not even the F-14 tomcat?
Nice presentation. One small correction. The F-117 did not have “ruddervators”. The V-tail is for yaw only, like a conventional rudder.
Then how did they control pitch?
@@stuntmanmike37 Elevons
@@stevenbarnett5050 Being that is was fully fly-by-wire, wouldn't it have a mixture of controls, elevons AND ruddervators? An F/A-18's rudders deflect for both pitch and yaw, in addition to stabilators that deflect for pitch and roll.
Check out how close together the rudders are at the bottom of the V
Yep. No Ruddervators!
I’m still wondering for which reason the only F-117 that was shooted down in Kosovo, was not bombed afterwards. Why the site with the damaged airplane was not heavely bombed by USA to avoid the soviets to put their hands on it?
Because Bill and Hillary Generals of AF, first flew these over and over the exact same routes in Kosovo. And in daylight. On purpose exposing them. So theses criminals, with Lockheed Martin who wanted the criminal F35 development to keep going. F35 development had failed. We see that today. The F117 would never have been shot down by the clever radar operators who used a variety of predictive methods, along with bi-static radar, were allowed to see these live on same routes during the day.
@@johnross6314 Never imagined a cospiracy but it could make (partially) sense... Thanks for sharing!
A.) Because it was already outdated.
B.) Because the Russian Federation (The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the F-117 was shot down in 1999) couldn't do anything with it. Even if they reverse engineered it, they didn't have the materials, the technology or the prerequisite knowledge required to copy it.
At this point, the B-2 was already flying missions and the F-22 was in production. Both of which were far more advanced and stealthy than the F-117 was. Its capture posed no threat.
Pictures of it were already out so the basic design was known. The biggest secret at the time was probably the radar absorbing material(s) it was coated with but they would be hard to destroy by bombing.
The aircraft also broke apart in the air and the wreckage was scattered, it was also at night so bombing of the wreck would have to wait till daylight.
The Serbs also collected it very quickly and took it away.
This was the best presentation of the F117 I habe ever seen. Excellent,excellent
A Tuskegee Airman designed and invented the F117 . Sir you are a witness to the rewriting of history in how a Tuskegee Airman reinvented the world universe, there is more to come.
It Was a waist of time and money. It Also didn't even to much action in its history
the materials it was constructed of and the shape in which it was designed and built.
saved you eight useless minutes.