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From: stein-c@acsu.buffalo.edu (Craig Steinberger)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F-117A performance?
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.045151.27174@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 04:51:51 GMT
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From: stein-c@acsu.buffalo.edu (Craig Steinberger)

In article <1991Jan23.043709.7563@cbnews.att.com> brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks) writes:
>I've heard that the nickname for the
>117 is the Wobblin' Goblin, but hey, why *should* it be easy
>to fly?  The pilots seem pretty happy with its performance..

When I was at NASA Langely this past summer, two F-117's came by for a
airshow at Langely AFB next door. Somehow NASA and the local AIAA branch
arranged for a briefing by one of the pilots. According to him, the only
nickname the pilots have for the F-117 is "the Black Jet". He was
evasive about most of the audience questions, but some of the points
made were:

Top Speed: "High subsonic"

Weaponry: "A full array of weapons from the USAF arsenal"

Maneuverability: "Like any other fighter" 

Another interesting point was that the F-117 are always parked in 
hangars. They are never left outside.

-- 
Craig Steinberger                               stein-c@eng.buffalo.edu
              SUNY at Buffalo, Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab