1/8/2023 0 Comments F117 cockpitThe aircraft can carry a range of tactical fighter ordnance in the weapons bay, including BLU-109B low-level laser-guided bomb, GBU-10 and GBU-27 laser-guided bomb units, Raytheon AGM-65 Maverick and Raytheon AGM-88 HARM air-to-surface missiles. The fly-by-wire system is supplied by BAE Systems Aircraft Controls. The cockpit has a full-colour moving map developed by the Harris Corporation. The cockpit has a Kaiser Electronics head-up display (HUD) and the flight deck is equipped with a large video monitor, which displays the infrared imagery from the aircraft’s onboard sensors. The elevons do not act as flaps to reduce the rate of descent for touchdown, so the landing speed of the F-117A is high, at about 180mph to 190mph, and a drag parachute is used. The V-shaped tail, which controls the yaw of the aircraft, acts as a flying tail, which means that the whole surface acts as a control surface. The F-117A has four elevons on the inboard and outboard trailing edge of the wing. The radar cross-section of the F-117 has been estimated at between 10cm² and 100cm². ![]() The outer surface of the aircraft is coated with a radar-absorbent material (RAM). ![]() The aircraft is mainly constructed of aluminum, with titanium for areas of the engine and exhaust systems. All the doors and opening panels on the aircraft have saw-toothed forward and trailing edges to reflect radar. The surfaces and edge profiles are optimised to reflect hostile radar into narrow beam signals, directed away from the enemy radar detector. The last four F-117 aircraft flew to Tonopah on April 22nd 2008. The wings and tails are being removed for storage, but some aircraft will be able to be rapidly recalled to flight if required. The F-117s are being stored in hangars at an airfield in the Tonopah Test Range, Nevada. A formal retirement ceremony took place at Wright-Patterson AFB in March 2008. ![]() The first ten of the 55 F-117 aircraft in service were retired in December 2006. F-117A stealth fighter replacement and retirementį-117 was to be replaced in the USAF by the F-22 Raptor before the F-22 programme was cancelled in 2009 and replaced with the cheaper and more versatile F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Nighthawk is only used for night-time missions. Nighthawk has been in operational service in Panama, during Operation Desert Storm, in Kosovo, in Afghanistan and during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The mission of the aircraft is to penetrate dense threat environments and attack high-value targets with high accuracy. The F-117A aircraft is also known as the Frisbee and the Wobblin’ Goblin.
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