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From: howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz)
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Subject: Re: F-117A performance?
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.020821.20653@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 02:08:21 GMT
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From: howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz)

In article <1991Feb5.043703.6484@cbnews.att.com> tkogoma%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (Gym Z. Quirk) writes:
>What *is* the 'official' name for the F-117?  I've heard the name
>"Ghostrider" somewhwere (maybe a Tom Clancy book), but I don't recall
>a more 'official source for it...

The PBS special on camouflage and stealth had interviews with a
number of people in the F-117 unit(s).

They said the plane does not have an official name, but is rather
universally called, in the F-117 units, The Black Jet.

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